The effective management of talent on a global scale represents a critical challenge for today's organizations. Beyond considerations about traditional company-assigned expatriates, this paper provides a valuable examination of global talent management issues involving selfinitiated expatriates, an important source of global talent increasingly available in host country labormarkets that has on...

Although significant research supports the association between physical activity and mental wellbeing, current literature acknowledges that athletes are no less susceptible to mental illness than the general population. Despite welcomed initiatives aimed at improving mental health within elite sport, these programs often fail to target young athletes; an important concern given that the genesis...

Data Mining techniques have been applied successfully in many scientific, industrial and business domains. The area of professional sport is well known for the vast amounts of data collected for each player, training session, team, game and season, however the effective use of this data continues to be limited. Many sporting organisations have begun to realise that there is a wealth of untapped...

Insufficient data on adolescent athletes is contributing to the challenges facing youth athletic development and accurate talent identification. The purpose of this study was to model the progression of male sub-elite swimmers’ performances during adolescence. The performances of 446 males (12–19 year olds) competing in seven individual events (50, 100, 200 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, breast...

Managing talent is a strategic priority in today’s complex, global business environment. Global organizations are looking to align their international HR strategy and align their various systems and processes. Leadership and management skills are not uniformly available and the war for talent is more prevalent in different parts of the world. In China and some other Asian countries, for example...

Talent identification is often used in a variety of sports by coaches, scouts, and scientists. Talent Identification can be defined as the process of identifying current athletes with the potential to progress into elite athletes (Unnithan et al., 2012). Concerning baseball, there are specific skills that coaches and scouts look for in athletes (i.e. power, strength, and body composition). Howe...

This study longitudinally evaluated whether maturation and relative age interact with time during adolescence to differentially affect the development of anthropometric and fitness characteristics in junior rugby league players. Anthropometric and fitness characteristics of 81 junior players selected into the UK Rugby Football League's talent identification and development process were assessed...

Human Resource (HR) applications can be used to provide fair and consistent decisions, and to improve the effectiveness of decision making processes. Besides that, among the challenge for HR professionals is to manage organization talents, especially to ensure the right person for the right job at the right time. For that reason, in this article, we attempt to describe the potential to implemen...