Talent Management in Higher Education

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

Despite the enormous expansion of research on Talent Management (TM), a degree of ambiguity about definitions and conceptual boundaries remains, and there is little attention for how TM is actually conceived, implemented and developed within organizations. This short book aims to present an overview of empirical research on TM, and offers an integrated model that addresses the full nature and scope of TM in practice.

This book will provide a comprehensive overview of and introduction to the current state of the talent management field, for both an academic and practitioner audience. From this point, the authors intend to introduce a talent management framework that can be easily implemented and it is this that will provide the most impactful takeaway from the book.

Marian Thunnissen works as a professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her research is focused on HRM and employee wellbeing, and in particular on talent management (TM). Her specific interest is on TM and the impact of the organizational context and on TM in public sector organizations. She is the editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal for HRM.

Paul Boselie (PhD, MSc) is Professor in the Utrecht School of Governance at Utrecht University (USG) in the Netherlands. Paul is Head of Department of USG. He investigates: What is good performance in health care, education and government? What types of management control are most effective in specific organizational contexts?