A recent publication, by our faculty member, Dr Marian Crowley-Henry is now in print version in the international peer-reviewed academic journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 29, Issue 13, July 2018, Pages 2054-2079, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2016.1262889. The paper is entitled: “Talent management of skilled migrants: propositions and an agenda for future research” and is written by Marian and an international colleague, Professor Akram Al Ariss from Toulouse Business School, France.
To get a flavor of that paper, its aim is to unpack the dominant conceptualizations of talent management (TM) in contemporary academic publications, and to consider these in relation to the increasingly important workforce population of skilled international migrants. The authors postulate that TM approaches are generally built from a relatively narrow human capital-based perspective wherein organizations focus on readily accessible and immediate skills, ignoring the longer term strategic potential of the international workforce of skilled migrants, particularly for multinational enterprises and other international organizations. Through a series of propositions, the paper highlights how organizations, in strategically using a more comprehensive TM lens rather than a human capital lens in approaching the TM of skilled migrants, could benefit from improved HRM performance over time. It also proposes a research agenda, by which future studies might test, explore, and further develop understanding on a more strategic utilization of skilled migrants in organizations.