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talent management

talent management noun: human capital management of the entire employee lifecycle. Companies that are engaged in talent management are strategic and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization. This term also incorporates how companies drive performance at the individual level (performance management).

Noun

talent management (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Human capital management of the entire employee lifecycle. Companies that are engaged in talent management are strategic and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization. This term also incorporates how companies drive performance at the individual level (performance management).

talent management meaning in Tamil and Bengali

talent management in Tamil

செயல்திற மேலாண்மை

talent management in Bengali

আকর্ষণ করা, নির্বাচন করা, প্রশিক্ষণ দেওয়া, বিকাশ করা

Origin of talent management

This expression gained popularity in the late 1990's as technology companies engaged in a 'war for talent'. McKinsey and company coined the term 'war for talent' following a 1997 study and then it was the title of a book by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod.

Questions about talent management

What does talent management mean?
Talent management means human capital management of the entire employee lifecycle. Companies that are engaged in talent management are strategic and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization. This term also incorporates how companies drive performance at the individual level (performance management).
What is talent management in Tamil?
Talent management in Tamil is செயல்திற மேலாண்மை. See Talent management meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is talent management?
Talent management is a noun.

Words near talent management in the dictionary

  1. talent
  2. talent communities
  3. talent community
  4. talent contest
  5. talent contests
  6. talent management
  7. talent scout
  8. talent scouts
  9. talent show
  10. talent shows
  11. talent spotter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: talent management (page history and authors); talent management (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); talent management (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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