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- Title
Exploring the Dynamics of New Zealand's Talent Flow.
- Authors
Jackson, Duncan J. R.; Carr, Stuart C.; Edwards, Margot; Thorn, Kaye; Allfree, Nicola; Hooks, Jill; Inkson, Kerr
- Abstract
Recruiting talented workers has become a global international concern, yet the diversity of human motives driving labour mobility has yet to be captured in any psychometric measure. By means of an internet survey administered through 32 professional associations based in New Zealand, 2201 highly skilled but expatriated New Zealanders completed a 26-item measure of issues pushing them towards staying overseas versus returning to New Zealand. Principal components analysis was used to explore the structure of this instrument, which suggested five motivational components: Lifestyle and Whanau/Family (primarily, for this sample, 'pull' components); and Career; Cultural; and Economic (primarily 'push' components). Discussion focuses on the content validity of this instrument with respect to pools of talent not originally from New Zealand; on its contribution to theories of career mobility; and on its increasing relevance for recruiters and policy-makers within organisations, government ministries, and global development agencies like OECD, which has recently called specifically for the construction of standardised instrument sets to measure global talent flow.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; EMPLOYEE recruitment; PSYCHOMETRICS; LABOR mobility; PROFESSIONAL associations; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
- Publication
New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 2005, Vol 34, Issue 2, p110
- ISSN
0112-109X
- Publication type
Article