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EJTD
36,1 Employability and talent
management: challenges for HRD
practices
26
Staffan Nilsson
Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training,
Received 14 May 2011
Revised 15 August 2011 Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Accepted 16 September Canada, and HELIX VINN Excellence Centre,
2011 Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University,
Linköping, Sweden, and
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Per-Erik Ellström
HELIX VINN Excellence Centre,
Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University,
Linköping, Sweden
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to illuminate the problems that are associated
with defining and identifying talent and to discuss the development of talent as a contributor to
employability.
Design/methodology/approach – The world of work is characterised by new and rapidly
changing demands. Talent management has recently been the target of increasing interest and is
considered to be a method by which organisations can meet the demands that are associated with
increased complexity. Previous studies have often focused on the management of talent, but the issue
of what exactly should be managed has generally been neglected. In this paper, the authors focus on
discussing the substance of talent and the problems associated with identifying talent by using the
following closely related concepts: employability, knowledge, and competence.
Findings – Employability is central to employee performance and organisational success. Individual
employability includes general meta-competence and context-bound competence that is related to a
specific profession and organisation. The concept of employability is wider than that of talent, but the
possession of talent is critical to being employable. In this paper, the authors suggest a model in which
talent includes individual, institutional, and organisational-social dimensions.
Practical implications – The illumination of different meanings of talent management and the
substance of talent is crucial to the practical implication of central human resource development
practices, such as training and development.
Originality/value – The paper shows that clarification of the conceptual boundaries and the
presentation of a typology that is relevant to the understanding of talent are central to the creation of
valid talent management systems that aim to define and develop talent.
Keywords Competences, Human resource development, Employability, Employees development,
Talent, Talent management, Training and development
European Journal of Training and
Paper type Conceptual paper
Development
Vol. 36 No. 1, 2012
pp. 26-45
q Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2046-9012
This paper is written within the framework of a research project that was funded by the Swedish
DOI 10.1108/03090591211192610 Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS).
Introduction Employability
The world of work has undergone changes in both the nature of work and the
emergence of new forms of work, which result from innovation, the development of
and talent
new knowledge, increased competition, and other factors (Brown et al., 2003; Sennett, management
2006). Today, work life is characterised by complexity, unpredictability, and
insecurity. There has been a shift from a commodity-based economy to a
knowledge-based economy, in which an increasing proportion of organisational 27
assets are intangible. This knowledge-based economy is generating new structures
and new and continuously changing demands and challenges in the world of work
(Barnett, 2000; Brown et al., 2003; Sennett, 2006).
Today, a principal challenge is to remain current with changes and adapt to the
evolving needs of organisations. Learning is no longer solely associated with education
and is no longer viewed as a pre-career affair. There has been a shift from job security and
lifelong employment to lifelong learning, employability, and talent management. The
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formalised career structures in the collective paternalistic paradigm of the 1950s and
1960s, in which employees could rely on other individuals for career development matters,
no longer exist. Career paths have become less predictable and more fluid. There is an
increased focus on self-reliance and individual agency; ambitious, hardworking, and
fast-tracking knowledge workers seek constant challenges and personal development in
virtually boundary-free careers (Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Defillippi and Arthur, 1994).
The labour market is characterised by outsourcing, increasing mobility, and declining
job security and organisational commitment. From an organisational perspective, these
characteristics lead to new challenges in securing the long-term provision of labour.
General organisational success is increasingly associated with identifying, recruiting,
managing, and retaining high performers or talented individuals to meet the present and
future demands of an organisation. The demand and competition for highly skilled
labour is intensifying on a global level (Florida, 2005; Frank and Taylor, 2004).
It has become clear that the most important organisational asset, especially in
knowledge-intensive organisations, is the people; the future competitiveness and
prosperity of an organisation depend on its employees. Therefore, the human resource
department has assumed a central role and is increasingly becoming a strategic business
partner in organisations (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2007; Barney and Wright, 1998; Ulrich,
1998). Human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD)
practices, such as the recruitment, training, and development of employees, are considered
to be increasingly important for the success of organisations (Collings and Mellahi, 2009;
Horwitz et al., 2003; Spence and Petrick, 2000). Consequently, HRM/HRD professionals are
searching for conceptual frameworks to improve the effectiveness of their practices.
Talent management has recently been the target of increasing interest in the world
of work and has appeared more frequently in the academic literature. For example, the
consulting agency PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) recently published their 14th
Annual Global CEO Survey, which states that a majority of CEOs (66 per cent) are
fearful that a shortage of talent may impede the growth of their companies. Talent
management meets the demands that are associated with increased complexity and
uncertainty. To achieve sustainable success, an organisation should align these
processes with its business strategies. However, talent management is often ill-defined,
and the substance of talent has generally not been identified or discussed significantly
in previous research (Collings and Mellahi, 2009; Lewis and Heckman, 2006).
In the previous literature, considerable effort has been devoted to discussing the
management of talent, but the topic of what exactly should be managed or what
EJTD constitutes talent has generally been neglected (Brown and Tannock, 2009). The
management of talent necessitates the definition and identification of the talent that is
36,1 sought. This clarification is crucial in the practical application of central HRD
practices, such as training and development.
Therefore, the purpose of this conceptual paper is to illuminate the problems that
are associated with defining and identifying talent and to discuss the development of
28 talent as a contributor to employability. Specifically, the intention of this paper is to
illuminate the conceptual boundaries of talent management and to develop a typology
that can assist practitioners in creating practices that aim to define, identify, recruit,
and develop talent. This paper explores the central concepts of talent management,
employability, knowledge, competence, and talent.
strategies and has recently gained increasing interest in the area of HRM/HRD
research (Berger and Berger, 2003; Burbach and Royle, 2010; Capelli, 2008).
Talent management is not a new concept (see, e.g. Patton, 1967), but talent
management research is scarce (Burbach and Royle, 2010, Collings and Mellahi, 2009).
The increasing focus on talent has spread from knowledge-intensive organisations to
wider segments in the labour market. Since 1997, when the consultancy firm McKinsey
suggested that the global war for talent is becoming a critical driving force in corporate
competitiveness and performance, the notion of talent management has become
increasingly popular (Axelrod et al., 2002; Michaels et al., 2001). However, there is no
consensus regarding the definition of talent, and there are no clear conceptual
boundaries of talent management (Collings and Mellahi, 2009). In the literature, the
concept of talent management is generally ill-defined or is defined inconsistently in
terms of outcomes, processes, or decision alternatives. The concept of talent
management appears to vary widely in the world of work, but this concept is still not a
well-defined area of practice that is constructed on the basis of a set of core principles
(Lewis and Heckman, 2006).
Generally, the notion of talent management appears to be closely related to concepts
that include human resource planning, strategic human resource management, and
employability (Brown and Hesketh, 2004; Collings and Mellahi, 2009; Lewis and
Heckman, 2006).
employers – and may not necessarily be associated with talent (Hillage and Pollard, 1998;
Knight and Yorke, 2004; McQuaid and Lindsay, 2005).
A central aspect of being employable is the ability to obtain a job. One aspect of this
ability is an individual’s formal and actual capabilities of successfully performing the
tasks of a job. However, another central aspect of employability, especially in areas
with fierce competition for jobs, is an individual’s formal credentials and ability to
negotiate, to market oneself, and to accentuate the appropriate forms of competence to
a recruiter. An employee essentially sells himself or herself to an employer. In this
situation, the employer becomes the customer, and an employee’s potential to complete
the necessary work is the product (Knight and Yorke, 2004).
The notion of employability entails more than an individual’s ability and does not
simply involve the process of matching an individual’s assets to the demands of an
employer. Employability is a complex, relational, and multidimensional concept
(Clarke, 2008; Clarke and Patrickson, 2008; Moreau and Leathwood, 2006).
Employability depends on context and is likely to vary between different
professions and organisations. Employability cannot be understood only in terms of
the competence or talent of individuals. Employability is also related to occupational
structures and the demand and supply of skilled workers in the labour market (Brown
and Hesketh, 2004). However, formal credentials and degrees are generally considered
to be central to individual employability. In addition, an individual’s social networks,
references and previous work experience have been shown to be increasingly
important for the hiring decisions of employers and labour market outcomes (Marsden
and Gorman, 2001; Mencken and Winfield, 1998).
alleviate the scarcity of top talent. As the competence of higher education graduates
increases, the demands for talent increase proportionally (Heidrick & Struggles, 2007).
The relationship between the content that is learned in formal education and the
demands of the world of work is complex. Investments in formal learning increase the
employability of graduates, but it is unclear as to whether such investments actually
increase the productive capabilities and competence of graduates. Formal learning
may not always be capable of directly preparing students for work ( Jørgensen, 2004;
Nilsson, 2010a). Talent is closely related to an individual’s actual capabilities of
performing a job (i.e. an individual’s competence). Therefore, to further discuss the
substance of talent, it is important to consider the meaning of the concepts of learning,
knowledge, skills, and competence.
organisation involves more than the simple storage and transfer of information. Some
knowledge, including factual information and explicit knowledge, can be transferred
relatively easily to other people through, for example, formal education or by codifying
and recording the information into databases or knowledge repositories that are
accessible to other employees in an organisation (Haesli and Boxall, 2005). However,
some of the critical knowledge in an organisation can be implicit and personal.
Turnover becomes costly if knowledge is linked with certain employees or is embedded
in an organisational culture through routines and ways of doing things.
A definition of competence
In this paper, competence is regarded as a central aspect of employability and talent
and is used as a wide concept that transcends practical and theoretical knowledge.
Competence entails both cognitive and non-cognitive aspects, including knowledge,
functional competence, values, motivational factors, personality traits, and behavioural
competence and includes an affective component (Cheetham and Chivers, 1996; 1998;
Ellström, 1997). Some forms of competence are easily mastered, whereas other types of
competence are more complex or tacit. Competence can be general and transferable, or
it can be specific and context-bound (e.g. related to a specific workplace). The
competence concept includes both conceptual competence, such as knowledge,
understanding, and transcending meta-competence (e.g. learning to learn), and
operational competence, such as functional applied skills and social competence
(e.g. behaviours and attitudes) (Delamare Le Deist and Winterton, 2005). In this paper,
competence is defined as an individual’s actual capacity that is used in practice in
relation to a certain task, whereas formal competence (i.e. credentials or qualifications)
is regarded as an inexact proxy of an individual’s actual competence (Ellström, 1997).
We propose that competence has three separate but related analytical dimensions:
the individual, institutional, and organisational-social dimensions. The individual
dimension is related to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that an individual can be
considered to possess. However, the degree to which an individual is considered to be
competent in relation to a certain task (or class of tasks) is contextually defined.
Specifically, this degree of competence is defined in terms of different demands,
expectations or rules (criteria) that dictate what should be considered to be acceptable,
skilled, or excellent ways of handling an assignment or a task. These criteria are
“rooted” at the institutional level and/or at the organisational-social level. The
organisational-social dimension includes demands related to organisational and Employability
technical requirements and social norms within communities of practice. An individual
is assumed to acquire these criteria (with varying degrees of success) through
and talent
processes of learning, such as formal schooling, informal processes of socialisation in management
the workplace and processes in society (e.g. through media or other people).
talent is generally absent in the models that describe talent management. Nevertheless,
the management of people involves managing individual competences, and recruiting
talented people involves recruiting people with a certain degree or type of competence.
It is important to consider the substance of talent to provide tools that are useful for the
construction of methods that are central to the practical implementation of talent
management strategies.
Talent can be associated with high performers in a general sense or linked to an
individual or how well an individual can potentially perform or actually performs in
general or in relation to a specific job. Talent can be regarded as being exclusive to a
few high-performing individuals or can be viewed as a quality that all employees
possess to some extent and that can be developed and managed through general
strategies (Collings and Mellahi, 2009; Lewis and Heckman, 2006).
Some talent may be dynamic or related to generic meta-competence, such as
managerial or interpersonal competence. Other talent may be related to hard technical
or operational competence that is associated with a specific job, organisation, or type of
industry or associated with the nature of the work (Tansley et al., 2007). An individual
may be regarded as being talented or as a high performer in relation to one task but not
in relation to another task.
There are those who argue that some aspects of talent elude description (Michaels
et al., 2001). However, for HRD and talent management, it is necessary to create an
operational definition to be able to identify what should be sought. In the absence of
such a definition, HRD practices become ad hoc, and decisions may be based on a weak
foundation and may not benefit the strategic interest of an organisation. The
establishment of a delimitation of the conceptual boundaries of talent is also relevant to
reforms in labour market and education policies (Brown and Tannock, 2009).
However, specifying and defining talent is not sufficient. It is important to ensure
that the systems and practices that are constructed to attract and develop talent are
valid in reaching their aims. Identifying, developing, and training high-performing,
competent, employable, and talented employees are complex processes, in which the
HRD practices in an organisation are central.
The changing work environment has also led to changing organisational demands.
There has been a shift from a focus on strong technical commercial skills towards a
focus on generic meta-competence or a shift from know-how to learn-how (Eraut, 2004).
In general, highly specialised technical competence often becomes outdated rapidly
and is therefore deemed to be less relevant. Rather, jobs are learned in the workplace,
and employees must continuously invest in learning and development activities
( Jørgensen, 2004; Nilsson, 2010b). Today, specialised skills are not sufficient, and being
employable is often associated with being a generally knowledgeable or educated
person who can easily learn the specifics that are needed when they are needed. With
increasing demands of productivity and profitability, the margins for error have
decreased. Risk taking is discouraged, and mistakes are not tolerated.
Employers seek self-reliant, flexible, adaptable and mobile entrepreneurs who are
also creative and innovative. However, employees are increasingly required to rely on
other people as they work, and it is important that employees are capable of
collaborating and working in teams and that they possess leadership and negotiating
skills (de la Harpe et al., 2000; Harvey, 2005). Moreover, employers expect their
employees to be hard-working, dedicated and loyal. Good performance entails
handling the tasks of a job and is associated with a moral dimension, which includes
adherence to regulations and norms that are necessary to fit into an organisation,
including culture and values and the ability to decode different contexts. Increased
access to information and the rapid development of new knowledge have led to the
increased importance of information-handling competence (i.e. the ability to learn,
collect, and sort information) (Nilsson, 2010a; 2010b). There are repeated transitions
from novice to expert and from expert to novice as professionals launch into new
projects and must become oriented with new areas and learn new skills. It is also
important to possess vision and planning skills and to be able to establish overviews,
and knowledge workers must possess a basic understanding of a wider array of
functions and tasks in an organisation and be able to engage in multi-disciplinary
approaches. Therefore, the focus on sought-after talent seems to have shifted from
specialist competence to general competence (Hesketh, 2000; Hiltrop, 1998; Nilsson,
2010a; b).
Employers seek self-reliant, independent, creative, and innovative entrepreneurs
with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with others. In addition,
employees are expected to be flexible and capable of rapidly orienting themselves to
new contexts and to learn what is needed when it is needed (de la Harpe et al., 2000;
Harvey, 2005). However, such highly skilled and talented employees are also highly Employability
mobile free agents. Therefore, their sense of identity may become more closely linked
to a profession or function rather than to specific organisations; thus, such employees
and talent
frequently change jobs (Hiltrop, 1998; Nilsson, 2010a). Increased organisational management
investments in individual employability and in refining talent have been considered to
be tools with which an organisation can increase its competitive advantage; however,
these investments are associated with a decrease in organisational commitment and an 37
increased risk of turnover. This situation has been referred to as the management
paradox (De Cuyper and De Witte, 2011; Van der Heijde and Van der Heijden, 2006).
employees are supposed to know, how they are expected to act, and how others in the
organisation are expected to act towards them are defined and strengthened through
HRD processes (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2007). HRD practices occur within an
organisational context of intra- and inter-departmental conflicts regarding resources
and power within the corporate hierarchy. Previous research has also found that HRD
processes can be unsystematic, ad hoc, and used as symbolic way to legitimise
recruitment, career management, training, and development decisions (Alvesson and
Kärreman, 2007). From an institutional or symbolic perspective, HRD processes are
used as a method for creating an image of rationality as a foundation for legitimacy
and status (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2007; Iles et al., 2010).
Organisations encounter considerable challenges in identifying and developing the
actual talent of an individual relevant to the actual demands of the work. The officially
demanded requirements of a job are often linked to the formal credentials of an
individual or their qualifications. However, the actual requirements and needs of an
organisation may be loosely linked to formal requirements and to the competence and
qualifications of the employees. In other words, there may be a discrepancy between
theory and practice (Nilsson, 2010a). It is inconsequential if a model or practice is
formally outlined, described, and validated if it is not fully adopted and implemented in
the process of identifying and developing talent (Lockyer and Scholarios, 2007).
central requirement of being talented is the ability to learn and adapt to these criteria
through formal schooling, professional training and development, informal learning at
work, or socialisation processes in the workplace and in society at large.
However, contradictions or inconsistencies between different criteria may exist, for
example, between institutional and organisational criteria or between organisational
and more informal social criteria. In general terms, institutional criteria are likely to
emerge as a result of long-term processes of professionalisation in a certain field or
interaction with the formal educational system, whereas organisational and social
criteria are more closely linked to changing conditions and demands in the production
system or in the social relations, culture, or climate of a workplace. Although these
three dimensions are closely related both conceptually and empirically, it is important
to separate them in research on competence and human resource development and with
respect to practical implications for HRD practices, such as training and development.
Figure 1.
Three dimensions of
talent: an individual
dimension, an
organisational-social
dimension, and an
institutional dimension
EJTD may be associated with considerable strategic and financial costs. Hence, organisations
should design individual HRD strategy programmes of talent management with
36,1 regard to the talent of their employees and the specific prognosticated future demands
of the jobs and their organisations. Training and developing talent includes career
management practices in which individual and organisational needs are strategically
aligned, including defining performance targets, supporting learning initiatives, and
40 ensuring feedback from line management. Moreover, an organisation must promote
enabling learning environments that are supported by policies and the ways in which
work is organised (Kock and Ellström, 2011).
Organisations must develop systems and practices that promote the type of talent
that is increasingly demanded. This development requires analyses of the existing
supply and demand of talent in an organisation. The three dimensions of talent that are
proposed in this paper could provide some direction regarding such analyses of
training and development needs. Human resource departments have an important task
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as strategic partners in finding, managing, and developing talent and in ensuring that
individual and organisational objectives are aligned.
Talent seems to be associated with employability competence, such as generic
behavioural meta-competence and personal characteristics that are more difficult to
identify than hard technical qualifications. This conceptualisation has contributed to a
shifting focus in HRD practices towards, for example, behavioural questions in
recruitment and performance interviews (rather than hypothetical questions), internship
programmes, trainee positions, and the establishment of appropriate communication with
professionals and line managers. Moreover, the increased individualisation of
responsibility for career planning and self-reliance in terms of development and
employability investments seems to have led HRD systems to focus on on-the-job training
and development programs and promoting workplace learning and individual graduate
development (e.g. career planning, coaching, mentoring, and job-related learning).
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