• ISBN13: 9788126937929
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Business Management
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: December 15, 2023
• Pages: 332
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 470 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

A must-have textbook for students and budding HR professionals that provides insights on attracting, retaining and motivating talent in organizations for sustained competitive advantage. This book provides the readers with a better understanding of devising talent strategies in an organization in contemporary times. From acquiring appropriate talent to the pipeline development for talent, motivating them in challenging times and retaining them―all the aspects of talent management have been covered in this resourceful collaboration. Talent Management: A Contemporary Perspective adopts a modern approach to the traditional concepts and shows how companies can adapt to the evolving issues and bring more agility to the overall system to maximize their performances. The real-life cases contained therein provide better understanding of the decision-making process of firms, offering invaluable teaching--learning opportunities. Key Features: • A unique assortment of various dimensions of talent management contributed by eminent experts and academicians in the field • Enriched with real-life case studies, industry insights and strong theoretical framework • Comes with a plethora of robust and engaging pedagogical features to enrich classroom teaching--learning process • Acts as a practical tool and guide for students of management as well as employers, recruiters and academicians

Mamta Mohapatra is currently Dean Executive Education and International Relations and Professor of organizational behaviour and HR at IMI New Delhi. She has over two and a half decades of experience in teaching, research, training and consulting activities in the areas of HRM, industrial relations and organizational behaviour. Her prior assignments include being a manager in Gregg’s of Enfield, London. She has been involved in training and consultancy activities in mostly all major―Maharatna, Navaratna and Miniratna―public sector undertakings as well as leading private sector organizations in India. She has trained more than 10,000 national and international participants from more than 70 countries working in government, public and private sector organizations. She is a certified HR competency assessor and neurolinguistic programming practitioner and has acquired expertise and training skills from Harvard Business School on participant-centred learning with a special focus on teaching through the case method. She has to her credit a large number of published research articles in reputed journals and four books. In recognition of her contribution to the field, she has received many accolades and awards, including the Best HR Faculty Award by the National Institute of Personnel Management.

Swati Dhir is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and completed the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) in organizational behaviour and HRM (OBHRM) area in 2014. Since 2016, she has been working as an Associate Professor in the OBHRM area at IMI New Delhi. Prior to this, she has served as an Assistant Professor at IIM Ranchi for one and a half years. She is a BTech in textile technology from Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur, affiliated with Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Uttar Pradesh. Prior to academics, she has also worked as an assistant manager in the Research and Development Department at Abhishek Industries (Trident Group). She has published her research work in many national and international journals (Scopus and ABDC indexed) and attended various national and international conferences. She has also written a book, Human Resource Analytics: Theory and Application Techniques, for postgraduate students. She is a certified DiSC trainer created by John Wiley & Sons Inc.

• List of Illustrations xv
• List of Abbreviations xix
• Foreword by Bhupen Srivasatava xxiii
• Preface xxv
• Acknowledgements xxix
• About the Editors and Contributors xxxi
• Module 1. Talent Acquisition and Assessment
• 1. Introduction to Talent Management 3
• Mamta Mohapatra and Swati Dhir
• 2. Talent Acquisition 16
• Amitabh Deo Kodwani
• 3. Talent Assessment Tools 30
• Premalatha Packirisamy and Srinath Jagannathan
• Module 2. Talent Deployment and Performance Management
• 4. Talent Onboarding 65
• Mousumi Padhi
• 5. Managing the Performance of Key Talent 80
• Amit Dhiman
• Module 3. Motivating and Developing the Talent
• 6. Developing Competencies 107
• Premjeet Furtado
• 7. Career Management 122
• Nishant Singh, Umesh Bamel and Peter Stokes
• 8. Talent Management: Pipeline Development 135
• Jyotsna Bhatnagar
• viii Talent Management
• 9. Coaching and Mentoring 149
• Sunny Agrawal
• 10. Managing Rewards for the Key Talent 176
• Anupama Sharma
• Module 4. Recent Trends in Talent Management
• 11. Employee Engagement 193
• Swati Dhir and Archana Shukla
• 12. Recent Trends and Best Practices in Talent Management 214
• Suparna Pal
• 13. Ethics in Talent Management 226
• Vasanthi Srinivasan
• 14. Global Talent Management 241
• Tanusree Chakraborty
• Cases
• 1. Tech Mahindra: Failure in Promoting Inclusivity at Workplace 261
• 2. The Balancing Act: Prioritizing the Internal and External Talent Acquisition at RKN Projects 262
• 3. Talent Mismanagement at Daikin Air Conditioning Pvt. Ltd India 268
• 4. Engaging the Restless and Reckless Gen Z: A Case Study of E-commerce Start-up Zappfresh 269
• 5. Managing Talent during Mergers: A Case Study of Vodafone and Idea 270
• 6. Understanding the Talent Management Challenges during Relocation at Oilsuper Limited 271
• 7. Does Diversity Lead to a Constructive Compromise?
• A Case Study at BOT Technological Services 279
• 8. Culture at JTG 286
• 9. Talent Management Fizzled out at DTKL? 287
• Index I–1