Talent management – What is it about? And how does it work?

St. Gallen, 5 January 2012

The goal is to increase productivity

Just like management in general, talent management is still a relatively young subject. The precursors of management and talent management can be found in organisations as early as the Middle Ages. Examples are public administrations or the military. Many concepts still applied in companies, originate from this period. Terms such as recruitment, application planning or salary remind us of this. Management as its own economic discipline has only been practiced since the industrial revolution. This is quite a short period of time if compared with medicine, house building or mathematics. In addition, there have been great changes in the world of work during this time. Consequently, it is only reasonable to assume that we have not yet found out about all aspects of proper management.

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