Talent management - an etymological study

TL;DR

This paper explores the evolving meanings and conceptual nuances of talent management, providing visual tools like mind maps and fish-bone diagrams to clarify its current state and guide future research.

Contribution

It offers an etymological analysis of talent management, highlighting its diverse interpretations and proposing visual frameworks to understand its development.

Findings

Identifies multiple shades of meaning for talent management

Provides visual tools to depict the concept's development

Suggests directions for future research in the field

Abstract

The current article unveils and analyzes important shades of meaning for the widely discussed term talent management. It not only grounds the outlined perspectives in incremental formulation and elaboration of this construct, but also is oriented to exploring the underlying reasons for the social actors, proposing new nuances. Thus, a mind map and a fish-bone diagram are constructed to depict effectively and efficiently the current state of development for talent management and make easier the realizations of future research endeavours in this field.