development interventions are “prone to perceptions of distributive, procedural and interactional fairness” (Wooten and Cobb, 1999, p.177) by employees. As one form of justice influences the others “the cumulative effects serve to enhance the impact of fairness perceptions” of the organisation’s actions (Wooten and Cobb, 1999, p.177). The review also established a link between perceived organisational justice and employee reactions to exclusive TM practices (, , ), and it found that in some cases, such as with those not labelled as talented, that exclusive TM was damaging to some employees’ perceptions of organizational justice, such as the findings that ‘untalented’ employees experienced marginality, isolation, distress and feelings of being undervalued. As stated, the links between the concepts is mostly examined under SET (, , , , ). However, under SET, for employees to be engaged respect and trust must flow in both directions, with transparent processes throughout (Doherty, 2010). If employees do not perceive they are being treated fairly the employment relationship can suffer (Purang, 2011). The review has shown that exclusive TM is damaging to some employees and their perceptions of justice (, , ), thus we posit that exclusive TM, through its effects on perceived organisational justice, can have an effect on employee engagement. Study Limitations This is a conceptual paper, with the conceptual model developed from a detailed review of the literature. It requires empirical testing, preferably a longitudinal study, which would track the categories of employees considered ‘talent’ or not in different organisation case studies, in terms of their employee engagement scores. “At least seven different scales have been developed to measure engagement” (), most based on Kahn’s (1990) paper. However the most popular scale (, , ), the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) by , is based on engagement being the antithesis of burnout. This research could be supplemented with
To ensure concentration on the relevant areas, articles were limited to those with the search string terms appearing in the abstract or title, published in the English language and This search returned 30 possible papers. The initial search is designed to identify key scholars and papers across the research areas. The bibliographies and citations of these articles are also analysed and the key authors in the field were identified. The led to further searches of each author to review their specific articles and a further search was conducted of the main citing papers. This process added 9 papers. Search String Data-Bases Limiters Fields Searched Returns Returns Saved Returns Used “employee engagement” & “justice” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Title Title Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 3 3 2 “employee engagement” & “justice” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Title Abstract Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 6 5 4 “employee engagement” & “justice” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Abstract Title Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 5 3 1 “employee engagement” & “justice” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Abstract Abstract Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 8 1 0 “employee engagement” & “talent management” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Title Title Peer reviewed 1997 - 2015 2 2 2 “employee engagement” & “talent management” Academic Search Complete Business Source Complete Title Abstract Peer reviewed 1997 - 2015 6 3 3 reviewed.
“justice” Pilot Study – with revised search strings used to search SCOPUS citation database Search String Data-Bases Limiters Fields Searched Returns Returns Saved Returns Used “employee engagement” + synonyms & “justice” SCOPUS Article title, Abstract & Keywords for both terms 1990 - 2015 29 11 6 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “talent management” + synonyms SCOPUS Article title, Abstract & Keywords for both terms 1990 - 2015 18 3 2 “justice” & “talent management” + synonyms SCOPUS Article title, Abstract & Keywords for both terms 1990 - 2015 4 0 0 Pilot Study – with revised search strings and searching entire Ebsco library Search String Data-Bases Limiters Fields Searched Returns Returns Saved Returns Used “employee engagement” + synonyms & “justice” Ebsco Library Title Title Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 20 4 3 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “justice” Ebsco Library Title Abstract Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 28 3 1 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “justice” Ebsco Library Abstract Title Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 33 1 1 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “justice” Ebsco Library Abstract Abstract Peer reviewed 1990 - 2015 58 2 2 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “talent management” + synonyms Ebsco Library Title Title Peer reviewed 1997 - 2015 2 0 0 “employee engagement” + synonyms & “talent management” + synonyms Ebsco Library Title Abstract Peer reviewed 1997 - 2015 8 0 0