Abstract: Any nation's wellbeing and prosperity depend heavily on the health function. The effectiveness of service delivery
is influenced to large extend by how the health sector is managed. Human resources are a critical component of
any health care system. A functional health system can be distinguished from one that is not by the presence of
sufficient numbers of skilled and motivated workforce . The stud y sought to investigate the influence of talent
development on performance of National Referral Hospitals in Kenya. A sample of 225 respondents was drawn
from 4 national referral hospitals using multi stage sampling technique comprising of purposive, strat ified and
simple random sampling. The respondents included directors, heads of departments and section heads in each of
these hospitals. Primary data was obtained from the respondents through self......
KEYWORDS: Talent development, Performance, H ospitals.
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