Talent has invaded human resource management. We are talking about the war for talents, their development or their specific management. Some go so far as to imagine that the very name of human resources management is now replaced by that of talent management. The emergence of this notion...

This study reports that changes in compensation from performance-sensitive (commission-based) to less performance-sensitive (base salary plus commission) schemes hurt employee performance but do not impair the company's. We analyzed performance data for 4,392 employees and 87 branches of a major...