ESSAY ON TALENT MANAGEMENT
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The purpose of this assessment is to evaluate your critical research and writing skills.
This essay should be an ‘argumentative/ academic essay', and must therefore contain an argument that is used as the structuring element of the paper. You are required to support your argument with appropriatetheoretical discussion and references.
A minimum of twelve (12) academic journal articles must be referenced in addition to your set text and other academic sources/reputed websites. The references list as well as in-text referencing must be formatted in the prescribed Harvard style.
You are required to research the topic on "Talent Management"and read the case, "War for Talent" by Kip Frame.The case is given below in this document. You should study,critically analyse the case and respond to the issues raisedwithin the context of an argumentative/ academic essay. You are expected to engage in extensive research within the academic literature relating to talent management in contemporary HRM field. You must explain your findings regarding talent management issues in the context of the above cited case.
In your essay, you should address the following issues:
1. Put forward a business case for organisations to adopt talent management as part of their strategic human resource management.
2. Identify key talent management strategies that organisations can adopt.Analyse how diversity, job design and flexibility contribute to attraction and retention of talent in organisations.
3.Explain the importance of effective leadership in an organisation towards managing talent.What skills/competencies do leaders and managers require to retain a diverse workforce?
Theassignment should be a properly constructed academic essay. It should contain aneffective introduction, discussion body (addressing the three issues) and a comprehensive conclusion.
The introduction should introduce the essay, thesis statement (main objective of the assignment) and include your argument. The main body of the assignment must present the evidence you have collected to support your arguments for the three issues and the conclusion should restate your arguments, summarise the evidenceand provide an inferencebased on your arguments.