[01] Bright Korankye Appau, College Secretariat, Enchi College of Education, Enchi, Ghana. [02] Edward Marfo-Yiadom, epartment of Accounting, School of Business, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. [03] Lawrence Yaw Kusi, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, School of Business, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

The study examined the influence of talent management on performance of staff in Colleges of Education in Ghana after controlling for the mediating effect innovative work behaviour. -Two hundred and eighty-one (281) permanent employees in four colleges in Western North Region in Ghana were targeted and 209 were randomly surveyed through structured questionnaire administration. SMART PLS application was used for the data processing. Structural equation modelling was reflectively configured with the repeated indicator approach. The study concluded that talent management and innovative work behaviour jointly accounts for a weak significant variance in employee performance in Colleges of Education (CoE) in Ghana. Innovative work behaviour significantly mediates the predictive relationship between talent management and employee performance positively. The study recommended that, integrating innovative work behaviour and talent management in a single human resource management framework for a holistic implementation is strongly endorsed. The study also recommended that, special policy focus on Talent Management Programme (TMP) programs in CoE by the National Council for Tertiary Education should go a long to ignite the spirit of administrators and leaderships of CoE in Ghana to reinforce the determination of a vibrant and efficient implementation of TMP programmes in their institutions, since innovative behaviour is a significant positive mediator in the predictive relationship between TMP and employee performance.

Talent Management, Work Behaviour, Employee Performance, Colleges of Education, Ghana

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