Research Catalog

Title

Demystifying talent management : a critical approach to the realities of talent / Billy Adamsen.

Author

Adamsen, Billy, 1963-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Details

Description

xi, 149 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"In both business and sports, the recruitment and management of especially talented individuals has become central to obtaining competitive advantages and strengthening competitiveness, because only with them can results be produced, progress ensured and goals achieved. Notwithstanding the legitimate importance of talent management, it is noteworthy how ambiguous the term is and how difficult it is to define. Within talent management, it is often explained with the gospel of Matthew: someone who 'has more" has a talent, and therefore should be "given more". This is exactly what managers do when they identify and recruit a talent. Demystifying Talent Management questions this idea that anyone who has "more" has a talent, and demonstrates how the term "talent" has become an empty signifier, which no longer refers to anyone or anything in the actual world. The book explores whether talent exists at all, and what the consequences to talent managment would be if this were the case." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Ability
• Employee selection
• Personalauswahl
• Personalpolitik
• Personnel management
• Success
• Talentsuche

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-138) and index.

ISBN

• 9781137508652
• 1137508655

LCCN

2015023514

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library