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TALENT MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TALENTS: ACADEMIC LITERATURE ANALYSIS AND CORPORATIVE PRACTICES

ABSTRACT

The academic production on Talent Management (TM) is emergent, there are few studies dedicated to understanding its theoretical development. The main goal of this study is to analyze the concepts of talent and TM on Administration academic production and its corporative use. It is a mostly a descriptive study, encompassing literature analysis and empiric data related to the talent definition adopted by 471 organizations in Brazil. Data were analyzed using content analysis with the expression analysis technique and NVIVO 10 software. Considering the literature on this theme, the analysis of the definitions of Talent declared by the companies revealed that there is a talent definition to each company, but there are terms that are common on these different definitions. From that, was generated a list with the most frequent words by company category. The joint analysis of this list with the literature on talent and TM has made possible to consolidate two talent attribute categories: identifiers and qualifiers. This study is limited to descriptive analysis and the use of secondary data; therefore it was not possible to proceed with in depth analysis. It is suggested to future studies the use of techniques such as longitudinal case study and the pursue of themes such as the identification of how companies can operate the Talent Management in a strategic way.

Keywords:
Talent; Talent Management; Strategic Human Resource Management

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