Effect of Application of Talent Management, Competency and Work Motivation on Employee Performance, Through Employee Retention (Study on ASN Government City Surabaya)

The purpose of this study was to determine how the influence of the application of talent management (X1), competence (X2), work motivation (X3), on employee performance (Y) through employee retention (Z) as an intervening variable in the Surabaya City Government ASN. The sample of respondents in the study was 156 people from the Surabaya City Government ASN population who had taken a competency assessment according to the Regulation of the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform Number 3 of 2020 concerning Talent Management of the State Civil Apparatus, totaling 256 people. The data collection technique used is the method of questionnaire (questionnaire) and observation. The data analysis technique was carried out by testing research instruments (validity test, reliability test, and convergent validity and reliability testing), descriptive analysis, and hypothesis testing using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) with AMOS version 23.0 program. The results show that all the hypotheses proposed have a significant influence, namely the application of talent management to employee retention, the application of talent management to performance, competence to employee retention, competence to performance, work motivation to employee retention, work motivation to performance, and employee retention to employee retention. performance.