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TALENT MANAGEMENT IN SMALL ADVANCED ECONOMIES

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Talent Management

Edited by Professor Vlad Vaiman, California Lutheran University, US and Professor David Collings, DCU Business School, Ireland

Talent Management is one of the fastest growing areas of research in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, bridging core management areas, including HRM, Organisational Psychology, and Strategy and International Business. The series, Talent Management, brings together emerging theoretical approaches and real-world practitioner perspectives from across a range of subjects in the field of contemporary talent management including talent management in developing markets, critical approach to talent management, and developing markets and talent analytics. The books within the series provide interdisciplinary perspectives on talent from across disciplinary divides and introduce new and innovative issues and topics in this area in greater depth.

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TALENT MANAGEMENT IN SMALL ADVANCED ECONOMIES

SNEJINA MICHAILOVA

The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand

DANA L. OTT

Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2019

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Dedication

To our families

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Foreword

Talent Management is a new series of books edited and authored by some of the best and most renowned researchers in the field of talent management. As its name suggests, this Emerald series focuses on talent management, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the areas of business and management. As a topic it bridges a number of core management areas, including HRM, Organisational Psychology, Strategy, and International Business. The series features monographs and edited collections exploring both research and practical perspectives on contemporary talent management. The main aim of the series is to provide a forum for the publication of novel perspectives on talent and talent management from across disciplinary divides. It also provides the opportunity to explore new and innovative issues and topics in this area in greater depth.

In general, this Emerald series, Talent Management, is intended to serve the growing market of global scholars and practitioners who are seeking a deeper and broader understanding of the role and importance of talent management in organizations. The series will focus on key areas of talent management practice as well as analyses at national, regional, and city levels. With this in mind, all books in the series will provide a thorough review of existing research and multiple examples of companies around the world, wherever applicable. Given the nature of the subject at hand, the authors and editors of the books to be commissioned will be global in their scope and the leading scholars in their respective areas. They bring exceptional knowledge of and expertise in the issues of talent management they address, and in some instances, the authors are the forerunners of their topics. It makes us feel very fortunate to have such a distinguished group of academics involved in this series.

The inaugural book in the series is dedicated to talent management in small advanced economies and illustrated by an example of one such economy, New Zealand. The book is appropriately titled Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies, and it consists of four large sections, or chapters, with the main themes in the chapters intentionally formulated as questions. The first chapter addresses three critical questions – what is talent, what is talent management, and why do they matter. The second chapter is devoted to talent management decisions and decision-making, while the third one explores issues related to talent management in organizations located in small advanced economies. The fourth, and final, chapter focuses on talent management in New Zealand, and the authors provide an in-depth analysis of a number of challenges touched upon in the preceding three chapters and offer a few recommendations for dealing with these challenges in the context of that country.

It goes without saying that the publisher and editor are vital partners in making this series possible. In particular, we want to express our sincere gratitude for the work of our series editor, Niall Kennedy. He has been very encouraging of the Talent Management series and instrumental in providing the necessary support to us and the authors and editors in the series. We also would like to thank the editorial assistant, Sophie Darling, for all her help in making this series a success. Together we are all very excited about the Talent Management series and hope you find an opportunity to use and benefit from Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies, as well as all other upcoming books in the series!

Vlad Vaiman, School of Management, California Lutheran University, USA

David G. Collings, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland

May 2019

Acknowledgment

We acknowledge funding received from The University of Auckland Foundation (project ID #3713309) to conduct a research project on Talent Management.