Motivation as the Catalyst: Enabling Knowledge Sharing and Talent Management in Organizational Contexts

Abstract

Abstract The paper explores the complex relationship between motivation, knowledge sharing, and talent management within organizational contexts. Motivation acts as driver that determine individuals to embrace knowledge sharing behaviors, improves performance and enhances goal achievement. At the same time, motivation supports effective talent management, by contributing to attract, develop and retain high-potential employees, leveraging organizational performance and innovative behavior. Knowledge sharing is closely interconnected to talent management, enabling employee development and innovation, supporting organizations to develop their pipeline of talents, by driving continuous learning behaviors and improving employee engagement and retention. The paper analyzes the relations that authors found between the concepts of interest for our research (motivation, knowledge sharing, talent management), by using the scientific papers approaching these concepts in order to perform multiple bibliometric analyzes. We used documents indexed in both Web of Science and Scopus. Supported by the analyzed literature, the paper investigates the mechanism through which motivation influences knowledge sharing and how it influences talent management. The semantic connections found after performing the bibliometric analyses, along with the intensity of the links found between the analyzed topics and other related concepts, supports the conclusion that analyzed topics present strong interrelations and also that they are closely interconnected with: performance, trust, innovation, employee engagement, job satisfaction and turnover intention.