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Talent Strategy: Alignment and Integration

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Developing a talent strategy is a way to bridge the gap between short-term needs (mostly phenomenon-driven) and the longer-term creation of value for stakeholders (strategy-driven). The products of talent strategy are enough talented people in the workforce for current and future health services. An effective talent strategy ensures the right mix of health workers in the right place at the right time with the right resources needed to perform their jobs and management support to enable them to work effectively to their full scope of practice.

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Turner, P. (2018). Talent Strategy: Alignment and Integration. In: Talent Management in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57888-0_6

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Talent management is a term that emerged in the 1990s to incorporate developments in Human Resources Management which placed more of an emphasis on the management of human resources or talent. The issue with many companies today is that their organizations put tremendous effort into attracting employees to their company, but spend little time into retaining and developing talent. A talent management system must be worked into the business strategy and implemented in daily processes throughout the company as a whole. It cannot be left solely to the human resources department to attract and retain employees, but rather must be practiced at all levels of the organization. The business strategy must include responsibilities for line managers to develop the skills of their immediate subordinates. Divisions within the company should be openly sharing information with other departments in order for employees to gain knowledge of the overall organizational objectives.

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