Strategy-Driven Talent Management: A Leadership Imperative

Foreword

Talent management is arguably one of the most important topic areas in organizations today. Although there has always been an emphasis both in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology and among human resource (HR) professionals in identifying, selecting, developing, and retaining the best and the brightest people, as Rob Silzer and Ben E. Dowell note in their Preface, we truly have entered the age of strategic talent. Between the continuous war for talent (which has only increased in urgency rather than decreased, unlike what some predicted would happen in the early part of the decade), the changing demographic nature of the workforce, the aging of the boomers and entrance of the millennials, and the ever increasing pace of change ...