Human Resource Management · 2005 · 668 citations · 6 references
ManagementDecision SciencesHuman Resource ManagementStrategic Decision-makingStrategic Human Resource ManagementTalent ManagementHuman CapitalHuman Resource PlanningHuman Resource StrategyTalent IdentificationTalent Pool ManagementHuman Capital Analysis
The paper discusses two paradigm shifts—talentship and sustainability—emphasizing the need to extend traditional HR service orientation to a decision science that improves human‑capital decisions and to broaden organizational effectiveness beyond financial outcomes to include sustainability. The authors propose the decision science concept of talentship and aim to show that a unified human‑capital decision science can identify pivotal talent pools relevant to both traditional and sustainability‑based definitions of strategic success. The approach relies on talent segmentation to pinpoint pivotal talent pools whose quality or availability most influences strategic success. The study finds that this unified decision science reveals pivotal talent pools that affect both traditional and sustainability‑based strategic success, highlighting key talent implications of the evolving definition of success. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Abstract Two paradigm shifts are discussed here: talentship and sustainability. First, the traditional service‐oriented HR focus must be extended to a “decision science” that enhances decisions about human capital. We call this decision science talentship . It includes talent segmentation, or identifying pivotal talent pools where the quality and/or availability of human capital makes the biggest difference to strategic success. Second, HR and business leaders increasingly define organizational effectiveness beyond traditional financial outcomes to encompass sustainability—achieving success today without compromising the needs of the future. A common strategic human capital decision science can reveal pivotal talent under both traditional and sustainability‐based definitions, and thus uncover important insights about the talent implications of the shifting definition of strategic success. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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