Talent management and its effects on the competitive advantage in organizations

Author: 
Dr. Abbas Umar Ibrahim and Dr. Cross Ogohi Daniel

This paper aimed to throw more light on the effects and concept of talent management as one of the recent systems that brought to Human Resources Management and its numerous activities especially in the new era. Additionally, it comes not only to survey the motives behind approving such concept in organizations and companies and the impact on its employees but also to identify the most important strategies of talent management and how to deal with its considered as a competitive advantage for its direct impact on performance level as well as to identify the best ways to invest in talent management because of its effects on reducing the economic cost in the organization by retaining and motivating those talents to implement organization overall strategies. Employee’s especially talented ones contribute to the achievement of competitive advantage in their organizations because they innovate in their field and they have the ability to make the right decisions to achieve goals. In details, there are some aspects that reflect the weakness of organizational loyalty causing talented people to leave their organizations; this is due to some repellent factors in their organizations, and the absence of the tools which will work on the employees’ development in the organizations so as to enhance the employee’s talents for the productivity of the organization.

Paper No: 
2343