Talent Management in Higher Education
Up until now, talent management in Higher Education institutes has received limited academic attention. Therefore, Talent Management in Higher Education by Marian Thunnissen and Paul Boselie (editors) makes up for that. It highlights and critically discusses specific issues concerning talent management in the context of higher education and recapitulates the transition higher education is going through. This transition started decades ago but was boosted by the movements of Open Science and Recognition and Rewards. The book leads to a reorientation on the conceptualization of academic performance, and subsequently also on the meaning of talent and talent management in academia. It is published by Emerald Publishing and available open access as of today.
The ten chapters of the book provide scholars and practitioners insight in the issues of different academic systems, and increases the readers’ awareness of the contextual relevance of talent management. All chapters in the book are written by scholars who are an expert on research in talent management or in Higher Education, but who are also all insiders in the academic community. Through their personal expertise, they mirror academia as a research object.
Several authors point to a shift from an exclusive and performance orientation on talent, to an inclusive, developmental approach to talent management or a hybrid form.
Marian Thunnissen: The chapters illustrate the talent crisis in academia, and this crisis urges the need for more innovative ways of developing and implementing talent management practices.
People (employees and students) are the most valuable sources in higher education. Exclusive and inclusive talent management perspectives and approaches can help universities to attract and retain qualified and highly motivated people,
says Paul Boselie.
About the editors
Marian Thunnissen works as a professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG) and Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven. Her research is focused on HRM and employee wellbeing, and in particular on talent management (TM) and Higher Education. Her specific interest is on TM and the impact of the organizational context and on TM in public sector organizations. She is the editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal for HRM.
Paul Boselie is professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance at Utrecht University (USG) and Chief Open Science at Utrecht University. He investigates: What is good performance in health care, education and government? What types of management control are most effective in specific organizational contexts?