Talent management in global context Definition of Talent Management

Talent management in global context
Definition of Talent Management
Talent management seeks to attract, identify, develop, engage, retain and deploy individuals who are considered particularly valuable to an organisation. ... For these reasons, HR professionals widely consider talent management to be among their key priorities (CIPD, 2017) However talent may be company specific, highly influence by the industry and nature of its work and dynamic will evolve over time.
Talent management importance is in the raise for contemporary organisations challenged with labour shortage, volatile economic conditions, globalization, technological changes suggestions HRM professionals and industry captains in the 21st century. Attracting talent then is the challenge for the global firms such as Uni-levers and Nestles. With the development of technology, the process is perhaps becoming easier employer today use various channels to attract talent amongst them. Mobile Platforms, job boards, company career sites, blogs, social media sites and community forums are the many sources firms depend on to identify and attract talent (Forbes Insight, 2016).  Companies such as Microsoft I not an exception in addition to using online means they also network with universities and colleges around the country to recruit college graduates additionally they also use social channels such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
Attracting Talent is not just the use of technology
Attracting talent is just not technology, and networks its more than that. The worlds best corporate such as the Fortune 500 work on the employer branding, manage company image and reputation, work practices, and strive to achieve status as best employer in the country they operate. As attracting talent employees is an emotional and personal matter for stakeholders.
Furthermore, core to attracting talent management is the recognition its not enough to attract high potential individuals but there should be strategy and planning for their talent management, retention, development supported by processes and systems including resource allocation to invest in human capital development and top management commitment and support (CIPD, 2007).
SHRM processes are integrated and high involvement approaches with rewards and awards and human resource practices and processes set in place to attract high performance individual within HPWPs in companies (Sung and Ashton, 2004: Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
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Reference
Armstrong, M., and Taylor, S., (2014) A hand book of human resource management practice. Thirteenth Edition. Published by Kogan Page UK.
CIPD (2017) Talent Management: Understand the changing context and business case for talent management, and the key features of a talent Management Strategy. April 2017 CIPD, UK. lent
CIPD (2007) Research Insight: Talent Management. CIPD, UK
Forbes Insight (2016) Talent Acquisition and Onboarding.  Copyright © 2016 Forbes Insights.


Sung, J and Ashton, D., (2005) High Performance Work Practices: linking strategy and skills to performance outcomes. CIPD, UK.

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