The employer brand could be a key factor of competitiveness for a company in acontemporary labour market. The purpose of this paper is to identify the features of human resource development (HRD) practices and talent management in companies with employer brand (CEBs).
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to illuminate the problems that are associated with defining and identifying talent and to discuss the development of talent as a contributor to employability.
Talent Management (TM) has been recognised as a key theme of Human Resource Management (Paawe 2007). Despite doubts about whether TM represents anything more than a repackaging of Human Resource practices (Chuai et al., 2008), in many organisations it is seen as an ‘essential management practice’ (CIPD 2015). However, surveys of practice suggest that TM is based mainly on an exclusive categ…
The paper sets out to understand the key issues that emerge in the context of decision making.
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the limitations of popular approaches to defining talent, where definitions are focused on determining specific attributes that differentiate someone as talent. It is suggested that rather than focus solely on definitions of talent, considering talent and success as distinct and separate enables a more holistic approach to engaging talent a…
With the rapid business expansion in China, multinational logistics companies are desperately in need of local management personnel to staff new offices and routes. This has been a major challenge for multinational logistics enterprises, as finding qualified candidates, recruiting them, and retaining them in China have proven to be harder than expected. Based on a set of interviews with executi…
Concerns about talent management among the HR professionals are prevalent on a global scale. Nevertheless, the research on this topic is still in its infancy with focus on connotation definition, structure classification, influence factors, plan execution, multinational TM and so on. Recently, few initial studies were conducted in China, but were limited by small sample size and taken only from…
Job markets in the transport and logistics industry are characterized by a scarcity of well-educated junior talent. Employer attractiveness is becoming more important in order to win the most talented junior staff. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how corporate social performance (CSP) profiles of logistics companies influence their attractiveness for job seekers.
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