Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms : Global Strategy and Local Challenges

Investigating talent management in firms from emerging economies, this book discusses strategies and practices of managing talented employees in the context of BRIC countries. __Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms__ illustrates how emerging multinationals use their talent management to create and extend competitive advantage in global markets, and how they support their competition with talent as their main asset. Extending the talent management perspective, the book compares companies from Brazil, Russia, India and China to provide the link between talent management practices, a firm’s performance and organizational competitiveness within the context of emerging economies. Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: The Next Wave of Emerging Talent -- Growing Importance of Talent Management -- The Rise of Emerging Economies and Evidence for Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms -- Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms: The Necessity to Be Realized -- The Organization of the Book -- Notes -- Part I: Global Talent Management for Emerging Economies: New Challenges or Old Strategies? -- 2: The Nature of Talent Management and Its Role in Modern Organizations -- Understanding the Talent Management Phenomenon -- The Fast-Evolving Talent Management Context and Its Challenges for Emerging Market Firms -- Notes -- 3: Cross-Country Perspectives of Management of Talented Employees in the Emerging World -- Talent Management in Brazilian Companies: Does It Really Exist? -- Talent Management in Russia: The Necessity for Reconsideration -- India's Outlook: Things Changed for Talent Management? -- Talent Management in China: Traditions vs. Westernization -- Notes -- Part II: Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms: Strategies and Practices -- 4: The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Firms: Is Talent Management Involved? -- JBS: Managing Talent Globally -- Yandex: Talent Management for Innovation -- Talent Management at Sberbank: Challenges for Management and Employees -- Leading Talent Strategy at Air China: Orientation to Customers -- Notes -- 5: Attracting the Best and Leaving the Rest -- Vale: Multiple Talent Management for an Employee Attraction and Retaining -- Russian Railways: Employee Attraction as a Process of Evaluation, Development and Rewarding -- Lenovo: Overcoming Labour Market Challenges -- Notes -- 6: The Good, the Excellent and the Potential: Talent Performance Management -- Embraer: Performance Evaluation for Potential Growth Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: The Next Wave of Emerging Talent....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Nature of Talent Management and Its Role in Modern Organizations....Pages 15-29 Cross-Country Perspectives of Management of Talented Employees in the Emerging World....Pages 31-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Firms: Is Talent Management Involved?....Pages 69-92 Attracting the Best and Leaving the Rest....Pages 93-120 The Good, the Excellent and the Potential: Talent Performance Management....Pages 121-145 Creating Talent Organization Via Employees’ Training and Development....Pages 147-172 Corporate Universities as a Tool for Talent Development....Pages 173-208 Rewarding Strategies of Emerging Market Firms: Creating and Supporting Talent Motivation....Pages 209-237 Conclusion: The Lessons Learned....Pages 239-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-270 "Investigating talent management in firms from emerging economies, this book discusses strategies and practices of managing talented employees in the context of BRIC countries. Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms illustrates how emerging multinationals use their talent management to create and extend competitive advantage in global markets, and how they support their competition with talent as their main asset. Extending the talent management perspective, the book compares companies from Brazil, Russia, India and China to provide the link between talent management practices, a firm's performance and organizational competitiveness within the context of emerging economies."--Page 4 de la couverture