Is Talent Manager the New Job Title for Human Resources Manager?

Khalil Aït Saïd (), Youssef Souak and Warda Azaghouagh-El Fardi
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Khalil Aït Saïd: LAREQUOI - Laboratoire de recherche en Management - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, LAREQUOI - Laboratoire de recherche en Management - UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Youssef Souak: ESCE International Business School, INSEEC U. Research Center
Warda Azaghouagh-El Fardi: IRGO - Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - UB - Université de Bordeaux - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Bordeaux

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Abstract: Talent management has become a central managerial concern, particularly in human resource management. Skillfully mixing HR and marketing functions, the talent manager is increasingly present in human resources job offers. However, "talent" as well as talent manager assignments are less clear and less precise. In this paper, we try to focus on the sense of "talent" given by talent managers themselves and on how they implement talent management in organization. Through a qualitative approach, we mobilize primary (semi-structured interviews) and secondary data (job offers) in a French context. The results show that organizations use "talent" as a rhetoric in order to improve their employer brand. The respondents indicate that talent management practices are so close to those of human resources management functions. What distinguishes the two functions the most is the proximity management.

Keywords: Talent manager; Human resources managers; Rhetoric (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-21
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Published in EUMMAS A2S Conference on Global Social and Technological Development and Sustainability, EUMMAS, Feb 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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