Training or talent?

Training inter-disciplinary talent for software outsourcing

With the advance of e-commerce and the outsourcing industry, there has emerged an urgent demand for inter-disciplinary talent that not only grasps e-commerce process analysis, but is also familiar with software development. The authors of this article have analysed existing problems in training for traditional software-related specialties. Also considered were ways to break down the barriers th...

A Global Talent Shortage: Myth or Reality?

Globally, employers within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields desire to hire skilled talent, but have difficulty locating and attracting it. In short, they complain of a talent shortage. But is this assessment accurate? Do the world’s labor markets suffer from a shortage of STEM skills or rather a skill mismatch, with a shortage in specific regions while other r...

Talent Management: the Construction of Talent

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Executive Noncompetes: Keeping Talent in House or At Bay?

Talent Management : Developing or Preventing Knowledge and Capability ?

This paper discusses the possibility of a growing tension between employee progression and capability development which emerges as a result of talent management strategies. It is argued that the inter-relationship between the increasing trend to develop talent management strategies, combined with skills shortages and the attitudes of ‘Generation Y’ employees, leads to the outcomes being, potent...