THEORETICAL JOURNEY OF TALENT MANAGEMENT: EGALITARIAN AND ELITIST APPROACH

Abstract

Talented employees are the most important value-created resources for the organizations. Talent and Talent Management (TM) concepts have been discussed in strategic human resource literature and business life for several years.  The culture of those group of people, learning capabilities are strengths of companies to create high-performance and a culture of innovation. In this context it is critically important to attract, develop and retain talented employees to the organization to gain competitive advantage. Nowadays, the perception of talent management activities varies from company to company. Even the organizations have many conflicts and misunderstandings about talent management practices, some of the organizations apply talent management formally and the others apply it informally. This confusion is a problem area that must be solved for today’s value-added and innovative enterprises. Accordingly, the aim of this descriptive study is to investigate the perspectives such as egalitarian and elitist approach on talent management to understand the problem area in talent management activities.

Keywords

• Talent,Talent management,Strategic Human Resource Management,Egalitarian and Elitist Approach

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