Talent Management: Still a Clandestine

Abstract

Talent management is not a new word to the individuals or organisations. Every HR- practitioners, employee, stake holder to the organisations were heard about the word "talent management” since the word had been coined from 1990s by David Watkins. But still there is no concise or specific definition available from the literature; so it's very difficult for all the  stake holders of talent management to understand the concepts of talent management and answer the questions like WHAT, WHY, HOW arises regarding the buzzword talent management always comes to mind. In this competitive, globalised era, the organisations are struggling to survive in the industry and the talent management strategies can help the organisations to survive and leads towards organisational success. Not only its helps organisation but also its helps individual's well-being and job satisfaction in the organisation. This study intend to add a new and broader approach to understanding the concept of  talent management and its various components that will help others in studying and understanding the talent management and implementing in different contexts. This paper starts with an overview of the previous existing reviews and studies by basically two themes such as one is the definitions of talent management in the existing literature so far and the other one will be the components of the talent management. For the study, the secondary data has been used and the researcher had collected and gone through the articles from the known databases like EBSCO, EMERALD, PROQUEST etc. and also articles from GOOGLE SCHOLAR has been considered. In doing so, this study can offer an in-depth knowledge and understanding of talent management and its components.