TALENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND GROWING ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY

Abstract

Firms resort to “Talent Management” in order to obtain a competitive advantage from people. Talent management cannot be adopted as a blanket strategy for any organization. Talent management needs to be customized to suit the context of the organization. However, pillars of talent management define the success of talent management process in an organization. At the same time, over time, organizations tend to grow in complexity. Organizational complexity is created by 1. Structural Mitosis, 2. Process Evolution, and 3. Product Proliferation, over time. Managing the Organizational Complexity should be a focus of the management of the organization, if the talent management process to be successful. This paper examines the relationship between the Organizational Complexity and the level of tenants of talent management.