Talent Retention: Evidence From the Mining Industry of the North of Chile

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact that critical variables have, associated with the retention of talents in the intention of workers to abandon their employment in the Mining Industry. A rigorous literature review was carried out, in order to identify the variables that, according to the contemporary development of the theory, most impact talent retention and, subsequently, a survey is applied to workers and contractors of the mining indus- try, whose data is analyzed by means of an exploratory factor analysis, presenting the results through a parallel analysis and, finally, a multiple linear regression model. The results indicate that the only significant variables of the study were the Career Opportunity, the reward and benefits and the work-life balance.