Eva Gallardo-Gallardo

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Purpose: The paper aims to frame empirical literature on TM, and to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of the topics under investigation, the conceptualization of TM, and under-explored areas. Design/methodology/approach: We adopted a systematic review that covers empirical research on TM which has been published between 2006 and 2014 in ac...

This review adopts a phenomenon-driven approach in reviewing the talent management (TM) literature, applying methods derived from bibliometrics and content analysis to evaluate the state of the field and derive implications for research and practice unbiased towards a-priori assumptions of which frameworks or methods are most adequate. Based on ana...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The ongoing confusion about the meaning of 'talent' within the world of work is hindering the establishment of widely accepted talent management theories and practices. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on talent management by offering an in-depth review of the talent concept within the s...

Organizations report great difficulty in measuring talent accurately, reflecting the lack of theoretical foundations for talent-identification in the HRM literature. This multidisciplinary review aims to contribute to the establishment of a stronger theoretical basis for talent-management by presenting a conceptual framework of talent in which the...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze job‐satisfaction differences between employees of the hotel industries of two similar tourist destinations: Andalusia (Spain) and the Algarve (Portugal). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey was conducted in the two regions. The population for this study comprised employees of any hotel establishmen...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in Human Resource Management (HRM), particularly within recruitment. However, the candidate perspective on AI usage remains underexplored, as existing research predominantly focuses on the employer’s viewpoint. Addressing this gap, we conducted a vignette survey experiment to examine how the combina...

An understanding of how emergent changes unfold is important for organizations in charting the path forward to address their underlying talent needs. Sourcing and retaining the quality and quantity of talent required to deliver on an organization’s strategic agenda, already a challenge before the pandemic, requires even more urgent strategic action...

Despite analytics have been seen as a ’game changer for the future of HR’,organizations struggle to move to them. Why is this happening?. In order to answer thisquestion, perhaps, one should start by wondering, what does reallyHR Analyticsencompass? We report the findings of a comprehensive literature review on analytics asapplied in HR, that help...

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the literature on human resources (HR) digitalization, specifically on HR analytics, disentangling the concept of analytics applied to HR and explaining the factors that hinder companies from moving to analytics. Therefore, the central research questions addressed in this study are: what does HR analytics en...

Research on TM has been accused of being lagging behind in offering organizations vision and direction on the matter (Al Ariss et al., 2014; Cappelli and Keller, 2014; Cascio and Boudreau, 2016; Collings et al., 2011). In fact, it has been a while before the academic community took a strong interest in the topic, or as Collings et al. (2011) stated...

Global talent management (GTM) has its origins in international human resource management, and it emerged around the turn of the 21st century as a key strategic issue for multinational corporations (MNCs) confronted with talent shortages and mobility of staff on a global scale. It refers to the activities and processes that involve the systematic i...

The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical and integrative review of TM research. In short, we seek to answer this question: What do we know by now about TM? We begin by briefly explaining the origins of TM. Thereafter, we present an up-to-date discussion of key topics in the field. Then we highlight challenges to and opportunities for TM res...

There is little doubt that the attraction, development, and retention of talent are nowadays one of the most critical challenges faced by companies worldwide. Despite the increasing scholarly attention during the last years many questions remain, particularly, those related to how (and why) talent management (TM) is conceived, implemented and devel...

This paper aims to offer a critical reflection on the way Talent Management (TM) is investigated in practice, by addressing the key issues regarding the quality (in terms of rigor and relevance) of academic empirical TM research and therefore the critical scrutiny of TM scholars’ work. We will argue that despite the growth in the quantity, the qual...

As happens with many managerial terms, talent is a captivating word that people seem to implicitly understand and often use but, actually, it is very problematic to obtain a single definition. Already in 2006, The Economist posited “companies do not even know how to define ‘talent’, let alone how to manage it”. In fact several authors attributed th...

This chapter draws a picture of macro talent management in Spain by providing information about the main environmental factors that shape current talent management policies and actions on a national level. Moreover, it shows the result of such environment in terms of Spanish competitiveness and talent stock using a wide array of international index...

Purpose: Despite the popularity of talent management (TM), very little has been published on the community of scholars that contribute to the knowledge base of the field. The aim of this paper is to disclose the dynamics in TM research through a detailed analysis of its evolving collaboration networks (i.e., research communities) in order to identi...

Research on talent management (TM) is an emerging field of study and little is known about the connections among authors in this research community. This paper aims at disclosing the dynamics in TM research by offering a detailed picture of its evolving collaboration networks. By means of social network analysis (SNA), we both show and explain the...

Talent Management (TM) is an issue of critical importance for today’s senior managers. Employers acknowledge that an engaged, skilled and motivated workforce is key to achieving growth and competitive advantage. Organizations are hiring TM officers and implementing TM strategies and programs to attract and retain the best employees. Yet many organi...

(...)We consider it is timely to help this growing field that it is far short from maturity to evolve by filling one of the gaps that could contribute to advance in the global understanding of TM in practice. Hence, this special issue (SI) aims to assemble a high-quality set of papers, which improve our understanding of how contextual factors impac...

El presente trabajo pretende ser un soporte para cualquier asignatura en la que se precise exponer información. Está dividido en dos partes. En la primera se explica cómo trabajar con uno de los softwares más utilizados de presentaciones (Microsoft PowerPoint). Mientras que, en la segunda parte, se explica qué elementos influyen para hacer una una...

Soporte visual utilizado durante la impartición del seminario organizado por CUNEF - Center for Knowlegde and Innovation (CKI).

This presentation corresponds to a short seminar for colleagues and doctoral students about what is a systematic literature review and how to do it.

Ponencia invitada dentro del marco de las Jornadas de trabajo de la sección de recursos humanos de ACEDE. Se trataba de explicar el concepto de la gestión de talento y todo lo que se ha avanzado en su investigación hasta el momento, facilitando el debate entre los asistentes.

This review adopts a phenomenon-driven approach in reviewing the talent management (TM)literature, applying methods derived from bibliometrics and content analysis to evaluate the state of the field and derive implications for research and practice unbiased towards a-priori assumptions of which frameworks or methods are most adequate. Based on anal...

The aim of this paper is to set out a teaching innovation project that seeks to advance in the development and assessment one of the fundamental students’ competencies from any Business Administration Degree, such as: critical thinking. We are going to adapt an audiovisual case methodology, developed and already proved in traditional universities,...

El propósito de este artículo es doble: explicar, con base en la revisión de la literatura especializada, el concepto de talento y el rol del departamento de recursos humanos en la gestión de talento; y analizar, mediante el método Delphi, y para las empresas españolas, la percepción de los expertos consultados sobre la definición de talento, así c...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explain, the concept of talent and the role of the human resources department in talent management, based on a literature review; and second, to analyze, using a Delphi method, expert perception about the definition of talent as well as the role of the human resources department and the effect of the curr...

El presente trabajo estudia si una mejor definición de la evaluación continua (EC) revierte positivamente en los resultados obtenidos por los alumnos. Se parte de un análisis de los planes docentes de todas las asignaturas impartidas en la diplomatura de Gestión y Administración Pública de la Universidad de Barcelona (una de las primeras titulacion...

Aquest quadern pretén posar i donar a conèixer les bases d'una metodologia que serveixi per engegar experiències d'aprenentatge amb casos audiovisuals en l'entorn del campus virtual. Per aquest motiu, s'ha definit un protocol metodològic per utilitzar els casos audiovisuals dins l'entorn del campus virtual a diferents assignatures.

L’objectiu d’aquest treball és analitzar com s’ha definit l’avaluació de l’aprenentatge, en especial el sistema d’Avaluació Continuada (AC), a la diplomatura en Gestió i Administració Pública de la Universitat de Barcelona. Aquesta diplomatura va ser pionera en aquesta universitat a l’hora d’implementar les directrius de la Espai Europeu d’Educació...

The aim of this paper is to analyse how learning assessment, particularly the Continuous Assessment system, has been defined in the Public Administration and Management Diploma Course of the University of Barcelona (Spain). This course was a pioneering experiment at this university in implementing the guidelines of the European Higher Education Are...

El presente documento pretende ser una guía útil tanto para el seguimiento de las clases que imparte la autora y en las que se trabaja la gestión de información con Excel, como para practicar las diversas opciones de esta aplicación de forma autónoma. Se trata de un cuaderno de ejercicios ordenado por orden de complejidad creciente y en el que se h...

Organizational commitment is a job-related key attitude that is, every time more, attracting researchers� attention in the field of human resources, and organizational behaviour. In this theoretical paper, it is analysed the evolution in the study and measurement of organizational commitment. It is explained how the conception of this construct, fr...

RESUMEN Este trabajo analiza, desde un punto de vista teórico, la evolución en el estudio y medida del compromiso organizativo, que es una actitud clave en el trabajo y que, cada vez más, atrae el interés de los investigadores en el campo de los recursos humanos y del comportamiento organizativo. Se explica cómo la concepción de este constructo, de...

En el presente estudio se realiza, en primer lugar, un análisis descriptivo del sector hotelero andaluz -sector de creciente importancia en la economía española-, considerando su composición en función de diversas variables sociodemográficas. Para, posteriormente, y dada la importancia que actualmente tienen las actitudes de los trabajadores en las...

RESUMEN El compromiso organizativo es una actitud clave relacionada con el trabajo y cuyo interés, desde el punto de vista empresarial, radica en su capacidad de influir sobre el comportamiento de los empleados. Habitualmente, un compromiso firme se correlaciona con un bajo absentismo, una baja rotación y un buen rendimiento de las personas que lo...

Stavrou, 2005) muestran la importancia creciente de los recursos humanos en una organización relacionándolos con un aumento de la productividad, un buen servicio al cliente, una mayor rentabilidad y, con la supervivencia de la organización. Una organización está formada por un conjunto de personas cuyo desempeño está directamente relacionado con el...