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Global Talent Management: How Leading Multinationals Build and Sustain Their Talent Pipeline

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... Talent motivation, development, and commitment are the main goals of strategic talent management, which cover the identification of talent positions; the creation of a talent pool comprising high-potential and high-performing employees who may fill talent positions; and the development of the HRM architecture for talent management. The study of the best practices of talent management at global EDUCATION OF ECONOMISTS AND MANAGERS • Volume 71, Issue 1, January-March 2024 Tugce Yerlitas, Ilona Buciuniene • Sustaining Human Capital in an Organisation… • p. 31-52 companies disclosed three sets of HRM practices of talent management (Stahl et al., 2007): recruitment, staffing, and succession planning; training and development; and retention management. ...
... This also increases retention and value generation (Dlugos and Keller, 2021). While practitioners (Stahl et al., 2007) and scholars (Pfeffer and Veiga, 1999;Collings and Mellahi, 2009) emphasize the importance of attitudinal and cultural talent fit with the company, talent identification and selection are predominantly performed by evaluating skills and experiences rather than values, attitudes, and personality traits. ...
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... The issue of the rarity of talented employees also presents a kind of tension for businesses. According to Stahl et al. (2007), global businesses face the same tension in finding the best talents, as they all seek individuals with unique talents across the globe. Consequently, organizations strive to adopt both international and local frameworks and practices of talent management to hunt for the best talent. ...
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... At the same time, they are individuals who contribute to the performance of the organization with the knowledge, skills and behavior of the individual and engage in activities that support their success. Accordingly, in another study, it is the capacity of individuals to use the knowledge, skills and behaviors they have (Stahl et al, 2007). ...
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