Scholarly Journal of Management Sciences Research | ISSN: 2955-0793 Vol. 1, Issue 2 (July, 2022) | www.ijaar.org/sjmsr 39 TALENT MANAGEMENT AS A CORRELATE OF EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT: A CASE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES IN RIVERS STATE BAYO, Princewill Lekara, PhD & KAYII NumbaraBari Emmanuel, PhD Department of Business Management & Department of Business Education Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. numbarabari.kayii@ust.edu.ng ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between talent management as a correlate of employee commitment: a case of insurance companies in Rivers State. Two research questions were posed and answered while two corresponding hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. This study adopted the correlational research design because the study attempted to establish a relationship between the dimensions of talent management and employee commitment. The population used for this study consisted of all the 35 registered insurance companies, given a sample size for the study to be 112 respondents randomly selected. The instruments developed for data collection are the Talent Management Assessment Scale (TMAS) and the Employee Commitment Questionnaire (ECQ). The instruments were validated by experts and reliability coefficient of 0.83 and 0.71 respectively obtained using Cronbach coefficient alpha. The data obtained from respondents were analyzed using the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) Statistics to answer the two research questions and Z-transformation to test the two (2) hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The results of the study revealed that significant relationships existed between the dimensions of Talent Management and affective commitment. It was recommended among others that management of insurance companies should be on the look-out for attracting employees whose potential has had a positive impact on the companies and use it to motivate other employees with similar abilities within the designated department in the company. Keywords: Talent Management, Talent Attraction, Talent Retention, Employee Commitment, Affective Commitment.