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Whither Talent Management?
A Contrarian Inquiry
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Whither talent management?

1. Value proposition of the construct?
2. What is Talent Management in academia?
3. Talent Management and earlier ideas

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The value propositionof Talent Management

• KPMG website Talent Management as
• Roadmap (Staffing)
• Critical knowledge skills and ability gaps
  (Training)
• Talent solutions (acquiring new capabilities)
• Performance management

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HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT
PERSONNELMANAGEMENT
TALENTMANAGEMENT
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Talent ManagementWhere to look?

• A Deep and wide construct
• Larsen and Brewster (2000)
• Human
• Resource
• Management
• Boselie and Brewster (2013)
• Hard HRM approach
• Soft HRM approach

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Why talent, why now?

• Supply
• HRIS
• Job family and Position
• No longer reliant on Job
• (Perlman 1980)
• Performance measurement,
• pixels of performance (Engle, Dowling and
  Festing 2008)

• Demand
• Workflow shifts, information economy, service
  economy advanced manufacturing production methods
• Performance discretion expands exponentially

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A familiar tune?

• Lepak and Snell (1999)
• Human Resource Architecture
• Quadrant One high unique, high value human
  capital

• Becker, Huselid and Beatty (2009)
• Differentiated Workforce
• Talent only valued in the context of strategic
  capabilitiesStrategy ? Strategic
  Capabilities
• ? Talent

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Las Meninas, by Diego Velázquez, 1656
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Human Macro
Resources Macro
Human micro
Resources micro
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HrM
hRM
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Human Macro
Resources Macro
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Human micro
Resources micro
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Human
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Four Color Home
Management
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Resources Macro
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Yellow Hrm Start
HUMAN resource management

• Self development programs
• Human development programs
• Interests and skills (photography, crafts,
  cooking classes)
• Yoga (Namaste)
• Wellness programs

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HUMAN resource management

• Life side of work/life balance
• Employee assistance programs (altruistic view)

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Green hRm Start
Human RESOURCE management

• Career planning
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Executive development programs
• Work side of work/life balance

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Human RESOURCE management

• Interpersonal skills training
• Technical training
• Individual skills and competency assessments and
  development programs
• Employee assistance programs (cynical view)

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Red HrM Start
HUMAN resource MANAGEMENT

• Possibly what organizational development was
  originally intended to be in the 1960s (Beckhard,
  1969 Alderfer, 1977)
• Certain forms of person-focused executive
  coaching and executive leadership development
  pre cadre

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HrM UNESCO ExampleUnited Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization

• Building peace in the minds of men and women
• Builds inclusive knowledge societies
• Empowers local communities
• Shares knowledge and information to transform
• UNESCO partners with
• Governments
• The wider UN family
• Other intergovernmental organizations
• NGOs, private sector
• Corporate and philanthropic foundations
• Media organizations, parliamentarians

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HrM UNESCO ExampleUnited Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization

• Building peace in the minds of men and women
• Building Knowledge Societies
• Knowledge and information have significant impact
  on peoples lives. The sharing of knowledge and
  information, particularly through Information and
  Communication Technologies (ICTs) has the power
  to transform economies and societies. UNESCO
  works to create inclusive knowledge societies and
  empower local communities by increasing access to
  and preservation and sharing of information and
  knowledge in all of UNESCOs domains.
• UNESCO has a long-standing tradition of
  partnering with institutions, entities and
  individuals of many kinds governments, the
  wider UN family, other intergovernmental
  organizations, NGOs, Private Sector companies,
  corporate and philanthropic foundations, media
  organizations, parliamentarians

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HUMAN resource MANAGEMENT

• Corporate socialization into strong corporate
  culture? (Safford, 1988)

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Purple hRM Start
Human RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Most of what is published under the heading of
  Talent Management?
• Cousin to high performance work systems?
• Cousin to socio-technical systems theory?

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Where to look redux? Top right action

• MACRO Resources

• Egalitarian

Elitist

• MNE
• SBU
• Regional/product/functional unit
• Country team
• Plant
• Team

CADRE
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Where to look redux? Top right action

• MACRO Resources

• Egalitarian

Elitist

• MNE
• SBU
• Regional/product/functional unit
• Country team
• Plant
• Team

CADRE
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Conclusions

• A construct grows up
• A construct morphs
• A construct blends into existing constructs
• A construct fades

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Questions? Preguntas?
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