Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore practical and sustainable ways of implementing small to large scale integrated organizational talent development programs in the form of a learning plan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the work of psychology‐based consultancy,...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to describe the practical applications around the “strengths” philosophy that was first pioneered in the USA during the late 1990s and early 2000s. It will give an introduction to the strengths approach and will reference two organizations'...

Purpose – This article aims to introduce a three‐level, 11‐factor framework for women's career progression. The framework summarizes the factors that genuinely do make a difference when it comes to women's career progression. Design/methodology/approach – The article combines the...

Pressure is on IT functions around the world to be driven by business rather than technology. But implementing new global career paths and competencies is no easy task. Michael Riermeier and Tim Zimmermann describe how their company realigned the competency model and introduced alternative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the human resource (HR) focus on “talent” has dominated the profession for the past 15 to 20 years. Much of this work draws on the research from the excellent study and book called The War for Talent . In this paper, the author proposes...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is for employers to learn how to make performance reviews of the employees more efficient and effective. Findings For performance reviews to be effective, they must be conducted in a manner that activates reward responses in the brain and supports repetition –...