Interfirm Talent Competition: Theory and Practice

Author: Wang Duexu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: As more and more enterprises truly recognize the importance of talent in gaining competitive advantages, a silent war for talent has been fully underway among companies, with an increasingly intense trend. This book provides a detailed analysis of the multifaceted reasons behind the positive differences in enterprises' participation in the talent competition, discusses methods for evaluating the effectiveness of talent acquisition channels throughout the entire process, explores the root causes of the widespread use of unstructured methods in talent identification practices instead of the structured methods long advocated by academia, proposes the practicality and key steps of defending against talent competition through internal job rotation within enterprises, examines the issues of knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, and knowledge protection that arise alongside talent competition, and reports the basic conditions and empirical research findings of 139 foreign-invested enterprises conducting talent localization in China. The book also presents an empirical study based on a sample of 481 Chinese enterprises regarding the relationship models between enterprises and employees, offering a new perspective for companies to gain an edge in the talent competition. Grounded in theory and practice, this book can serve as a reference for HRM researchers, senior and middle-level managers in enterprises, HRM professionals, as well as MBA and EMBA students.