Contemporary Talent Management

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.

Ibraiz Tarique, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Management and Management Science and Professor of Human Resources and Talent Management at Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City, New York, USA.

1. Contemporary 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 F. Subotnik, Eduardo Salas, Frank C. 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 S. Byrne and Steven G. 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 Vläi- 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 Flow and Talent Management Stuart C. 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 M. Kuhn 18. Talent Management During Mergers and Acquisitions Timothy Galpin