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Article Type: Editorial From: Tourism Review, Volume 9, Issue 5
The attraction, development and retention of talent remain organizational priorities, and ones that have grown in significance during tough trading conditions. Internal investment in talent management can be hard to secure in such times, yet the competition for top talent is fierce. In this issue of Strategic HR Review, our authors address the topic of talent management from a range of interesting perspectives, including two different global views - one on retention and the other development - a review of how one organization is managing to keep its top talent despite the challenges, and a look at best practice in re-attracting and re-retaining. If talented individuals do leave, re-attracting them to the organization can bring back a fresh perspective and valuable new market experience and skills.
In the first paper, "Managing talent across a global workforce", Stuart Woollard looks at talent management from a global perspective. He identifies challenges surrounding talent management, in particular the lack of consistency in its definition and the...