Influence of emotional salary on human talent retention: A case study in Cajamarca
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The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the emotional salary and the retention of human talent in the collaborators of a district municipality of Cajamarca, Peru, in the year 2024. The type of applied research with a quantitative approach was used, with a non-experimental methodological design at a descriptive cross-sectional correlational level. The sample population was taken as the total number of collaborators of a municipal entity, where 118 people work under different contracting decrees. The data collection technique was the survey formulated by a highly reliable questionnaire: to determine the relationship between the emotional salary and the retention of human talent, validated by expert judgment at an acceptable level of reliability. The results show that 64.4% of the emotional salary influences the retention of human talent. At a general level, it was possible to accept the research hypothesis, where it is concluded that there is a positive, direct and significant relationship between the study variables. High positive relationships were found between development opportunities (r = 0.851) and life balance (r = 0.736), as well as moderate relationships with psychological well-being (r = 0.612) and work environment (r = 0.421). This means that, if the district municipality of Cajamarca improves the emotional salary, the probability of employees remaining in the institution increases by 0.664 units.
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