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Talent management: Talent management is important for the organizations.

In this article they mainly focus on tourism and hospitality organizations. Some people think that Talent management can be a software or data storage process and tat will b easy approach and takes place at the level of whole enterprise. The function of HRM is to maximize the skills and utilize the talent of employees which is synonym to talent management. HRM practices are similar to talent management but talent management additionally implies a level of strategic integration.

Talent management has three basic concepts: identify three primary conceptions of the term. The first is that talent management is comprised of a collection of typical human resource department practices. . .such as recruiting, selection, development and career and succession management second conception of talent management more specifically focuses on predicting or modeling (in support of managing) the flow of human resources throughout the organization, based on such factors as workforce skills, supply and demand, and growth and attrition third perspective of talent management focuses on sourcing, developing and rewarding employee talent. Also provide more training and development to talented employee.

Recruitment represent the organization to attract the right person, and let the right person feel the employment is desired. Retention - Provide some rewards and benefits for employed employees. Employee Development including education and development.

Importance of talent management

Christensen-Hughes and Rog (2008) talent management is important for at least two reasons. The first reason is that if an organization has effective talent management, this organization can successfully obtain and retain the necessary talent. The second reason is that an organization can benefit from talent management by developing and retaining the current employee. But talent management is not important to all hospitality organizations, such as fast food services, in this industry, the turnover rate is very high, and most of the companies in that industry use new technology to replace human workforces. Which mean fast food companies does not need to put many recourse to retain the talent of employee. However, talent management is important to some of the hospitality organizations, such as airline and hotel. These organizations need well trained employee to work. But in the hospitality industry, recruitment and retention is a big challenge. Hospitality industry is highly labor intensive, because the turnover rate is high and it needs people to serve the customers, and the expectation of customer are higher than other industry.

CONCLUSION To conclude, the definition of talent management is hard to define, and this position paper has provided three definitions which Lewis and Heckman (2006) had identified. Talent management can be a major competitive advantage to many organizations. However, talent management might not be applying to all of the hospitality organizations, especially in the fast food organizations. Apart from the first food organizations, the hotel and airline organizations can apply talent management. Recomendatiions Organization should have a particular definition of talent and talent management. A clear role for talent management. All departments should have a proactive and strategic talent management system. The management level staff should provide support to talent management. All line department managers should be engaged of talent management. Enlarging the brand and organization image by using talent management. Development of talent bases on formal and informal methods.

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