Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

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Managing Talent in a Changing Landscape

Peter Cappelli

Getting the right people with the right skills into the right jobs—a common definition of talent management—is the basic people management challenge in any organization. Though talent management often focuses on managerial and executive positions, the issues involved apply to all jobs. Among the major subtasks within the talent management function are the following:

workforce planning, which estimates future demand

hiring (entry-level and lateral) and internal development and promotion, ...