Talent Management A Key Driver For Employees' Performance

This book offers a fresh look of how Talent Management could be a key driver for employees' performance. Talent is evolving into a science for Human Resource professionals and a critical reason of success for managers. Companies can manage this most precious asset in order to sustain their competitive edge. Since 1990s, Talent management (TM) gained prominence among academic circles and practitioners alike along with a surge of the "war for talent". While much research has been achieved in the field of Human Resource Management, little has been done in talent management practices. With the growing interest in Talent Management, this book presents a review of talent management and its practices where the author highlights the importance of talent's identification, development and retention. The study contributes to the development of knowledge of Talent Management, tests an original conceptual model and measures its impact on three main dimensions of employees' performance namely the affective commitment, the contribution and the intention to stay in large Lebanese enterprises.