Paul Sparrow, Hugh Scullion and Ibraiz Tarique. Strategic talent management: Contemporary issues in international context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014, 305 pages, $113.00 hardback

The importance of linking leadership to talent management is a priority for the Mauritian economy at a time when the economy shifts from the industrial and labour-intensive sector to a services and knowledge-based economy. There is a necessity to link leadership to talent management where local managers are in need of improving their leadership abilities and develop the talent that their organisations may in turn depend upon. It is not merely learning or getting trained in leadership that matters but, more importantly, the need to generate talent from effective leadership strategies. This research article firstly explains the importance of leadership linked with talent. The text then focuses on innovative practices that selected Mauritian companies have undertaken and where talent leadership matters. From this standpoint, the researcher selects effective leadership strategies that might be much needed based from practices that are successful abroad and have positively impacted on the international context. The research emphasises new coaching methodologies linked with the development of leadership talent. Techniques like „coaching outside in coaching inside out‟, „onboarding‟, „pivotal leadership‟, „reinforcement coaching‟, are just new approaches that differ from traditional orientation and that are also much relevant in developing leadership talent in the current and future economic conjecture of Mauritius. They have to be adapted to the Mauritian context. Though the research is not exhaustive and is more focused on qualitative than quantitative interpretation, it sheds light onto the fast-developing concept of talent management in business organisations and the need to link leadership in a more conclusive manner.

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High Performance Work System: Institutional Motivation in Talent Management

Advanced Science Letters ◽

10.1166/asl.2015.5948 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 953-956

Author(s):

M. Z. Siti-Rohaida ◽

Ayob Azlin

Keyword(s):

Thematic Analysis ◽

High Performance ◽

Talent Management ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Blurred Vision ◽

International Context ◽

Local Setting ◽

High Performance Work System ◽

Depth Interviews

In a competitive market, many organizational can not only relying to the traditional four factors of production. None of these factors are unable to be translated to profit equation if these factors are not well managed. Thus, the element of knowledge in managing these factors is so crucial. In order to perform this knowledge management, the roles of talent is undeniably important. Thus, this sparks the attention among the management to learn the effective ways to do talent management. Talent management is beyond than just staffing and retaining. If involves process of motivation and commitment of the employees. Unfortunately, most of the researches are mapped to international context to local setting and this creates blurred vision on talent management from local lens. Thus, this paper investigates and examines the institution motivation in talent management. To achieve the research objectives, there were series of in depth interviews conducted and a Government Linked Company status company was chosen for a case study. Series of structured interviews were scheduled in advance and thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview scripts. The study reveals that company involved with talent management for future agenda and these motivations factors are discussed in this paper.

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Sex and Social Justice. By Martha C. Nussbaum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 488p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. By Martha C. Nussbaum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 334p. $28.00 cloth, $20.00 paper.

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055402340462 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 809-810

Author(s):

Nancy J. Hirschmann

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Human Development ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Martha Nussbaum ◽

International Context ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Oxford University ◽

Clear Case ◽

Oxford University Press

These two books by leading U.S. philosopher Martha Nussbaum take up the issue of women's inequality in a U.S. and international context. Both are hard-hitting, in Nussbaum's characteristic take-no-prisoners style, setting out a clear case that women endure ignominious oppression in the name of culture and religion, and that feminists and liberals alike should tolerate it no longer.

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