Contemporary talent management: a research companion

1. Talent Management: An Introduction

Ibraiz Tarique

Section I The Processes of Talent Management

2. Talent Acquisition and Executive Search Firms

Monika Hamori

3. Talent Management: Insights from the Study of Giftedness and Implications for High Performance in the business domain

Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Rena Subotnik, Eduardo Salas, Frank Worrell

4. Talent Management and Managing Diverse Talents

Lotte Holck, Sara Louise Muhr and Florence Villesèche

5. Talent Management and Gender Influences: A Discussion of Gender Sensitive Talent Management

Heike Schinnenburg and Nicole Böhmer

6. Managing talent in the context of an aging global workforce: Emerging Challenges

Sophie Hennekam and Jean-Pierre Dumazert

7. A Wisdom-based approach for developing globally talented leaders

Eric Kessler

8. Learning Agility: Conceptualization and Application in Contemporary Talent Management

Guangrong Dai and Kenneth P. De Meuse

9. Designing Talent Management Strategies: All Millennials Are Not the Same

Jennifer J. Deal and Alec Levenson

10. Employee Engagement as a Talent Management Imperative

Zinta Byrne and Steven Manning

Section II The External and Internal Contexts of Talent Management Processes

11. Embodiment of Talent Management within Entrepreneurship: a Bibliometric Approach

Marina Dabic, Jane Frances Maley, Miriam Moeller and Božidar Vlačić

12. Principles of Talent Management in Small Business Enterprises

Mireia Valverde, Eva Gallardo and Jordi Trullen

13. Talent management for intrapreneurship: Taking stock of the current state of the field and developing avenues for future research

Chen Fleisher, Sanne van Wetten and Coen Rigtering

14. Global Talent Management of Skilled Migrants: Current and Future Research

Marie-France Waxin, Akram Al Ariss and Fang Zhao

15. Talent Management and Talent Flow

Stuart Carr, Kaye Thorn and Kerr Inkson

16. Green Human Resource Management and Talent Management

Julie Haddock-Millar and Wayne O’Donohue

17. Talent Management for Gig Workers in the Gig Economy

Kristine Kuhn

18. Talent Management During Mergers and Acquisitions

Timothy Galpin

The field of talent management has grown and advanced exponentially over the past several years as an essential area of research. While interest in the field is growing, and recent research has provided valuable insight into various topics, there remain many opportunities for additional exploration and research. One such opportunity is to examine talent management topics related to the modern workforce and organizations – an area identified as contemporary talent management.

Divided into two thematic sections that provide a unique overarching structure to organize 18 chapters written by leading and renowned international scholars, this Research Companion assesses essential knowledge, trends, debates, and avenues for future research in a single volume. Some of the topics examined from a contemporary talent management perspective include Executive Search, Gifted Early Career Individuals, Managing Diverse Talents, Gender Sensitive Talent Management, Aging Global Workforce, Leadership Wisdom, Learning Agility, Employee Engagement, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Small Business Enterprises, Talent Flow, Green HR, Gig Workers, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

In this way, the Research Companion is essential reading for anyone involved in the scholarly study of contemporary talent management, including academic researchers, advanced postgraduate and graduate students, and management consultants. For further debate on traditional talent management, readers might be interested in the supplementary volume, The Routledge Companion to Talent Management, sold separately.