Re-focusing talent management: Frontline and essential work as the contemporary challenge

IF 8.2 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management Review Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI:10.1016/j.hrmr.2025.101090

Heike Schinnenburg, Nicole Böhmer

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Abstract

Talent Management (TM) research has predominantly focused on graduated knowledge workers and high potentials who are identified and nurtured as future talent for key positions. In the global context, societal phenomena and megatrends challenge main paradigms of exclusive approaches in TM, especially which target groups are scarce and require special consideration of HRM practitioners. Taking a phenomenon-based approach, this paper discusses the relevance of demographic shifts, educational policies, migration, and the rapid development of AI, indicating different labor markets for the future. We explore Frontline and Essential Workers (FEWs) as a potential source of talent and organizational capabilities in diverse national contexts, exemplified in the German economy. Key implications for the future of TM are identified and a more future-orientated, inclusive framework suggested, inviting further development and scholarly discussions.

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Human Resource Management Review MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

20.20

自引率

7.00%

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审稿时长

48 days

期刊介绍： The Human Resource Management Review (HRMR) is a quarterly academic journal dedicated to publishing scholarly conceptual and theoretical articles in the field of human resource management and related disciplines such as industrial/organizational psychology, human capital, labor relations, and organizational behavior. HRMR encourages manuscripts that address micro-, macro-, or multi-level phenomena concerning the function and processes of human resource management. The journal publishes articles that offer fresh insights to inspire future theory development and empirical research. Critical evaluations of existing concepts, theories, models, and frameworks are also encouraged, as well as quantitative meta-analytical reviews that contribute to conceptual and theoretical understanding. Subject areas appropriate for HRMR include (but are not limited to) Strategic Human Resource Management, International Human Resource Management, the nature and role of the human resource function in organizations, any specific Human Resource function or activity (e.g., Job Analysis, Job Design, Workforce Planning, Recruitment, Selection and Placement, Performance and Talent Management, Reward Systems, Training, Development, Careers, Safety and Health, Diversity, Fairness, Discrimination, Employment Law, Employee Relations, Labor Relations, Workforce Metrics, HR Analytics, HRM and Technology, Social issues and HRM, Separation and Retention), topics that influence or are influenced by human resource management activities (e.g., Climate, Culture, Change, Leadership and Power, Groups and Teams, Employee Attitudes and Behavior, Individual, team, and/or Organizational Performance), and HRM Research Methods.