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Talent Management Process For many people, Chapters 4-13 represent the heart of the book, specifically recruit- ment, selection, training, appraisal, career planning, and compensation.Recognizing all this, the trend today is to view these eight activities not stepwise but as part of a coordinated talent management effort.2 We will define talent man- agement as the holistic, integrated and results and goal-oriented process of planning, recruiting, selecting, developing, managing, and compensating employees.He or she starts with the results and asks, "What recruiting, testing, training, or pay action should I take to produce the employee competencies we need to achieve our company's goals?" 2. He or she treats activities such as recruiting and training as interrelated. For example, the manager knows that having employees with the right skills depends as much on recruiting and training as on applicant testing. 3. Because talent management is holistic and integrated, he or she will probably use the same "profile" of required human skills, knowledge, and behaviors ("competencies") for formulating a job's recruitment plans as for making selection, training, appraisal, and compensation decisions for it. 4.For example, HR managers meet to make sure they are using the same skills profile to recruit as to select, train, and appraise for a particular job, or use talent management software like the following to do so. Improving Performance Through HRIS: Talent Management Software Because talent management is holistic and interdependent, many employers use talent management software systems to coordinate their talent-related activities.So, first, rather than view these eight HR activities as stepwise, it is best to view them holistically-- because the steps interactively affect each other and work together.Build a pool of job applicants, by recruiting internal or external candidates.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.

Talent Management Process
For many people, Chapters 4–13 represent the heart of the book, specifically recruit-
ment, selection, training, appraisal, career planning, and compensation. Managers
traditionally view these activities as a series of steps:

1. Decide what positions to fill, through job analysis, personnel planning, and
   forecasting.


2. Build a pool of job applicants, by recruiting internal or external candidates.


3. Obtain application forms and perhaps have initial screening interviews.


4. Use selection tools like tests, interviews, background checks, and physical exams
   to identify viable candidates.


5. Decide to whom to make an offer.


6. Orient, train, and develop employees so they have the competencies to do their
   jobs.


7. Appraise employees to assess how they’re doing.


8. Compensate employees to maintain their motivation.
   This stepwise view makes sense. For example, the employer needs job candidates
   before selecting whom to hire.
   The problem with the stepwise view is twofold. First, the process usually isn’t re-
   ally stepwise. For example, managers do not just train employees (step 6 above) and
   then appraise how they’re doing (step 7). Instead (to use our example), the appraisal
   may well also loop back to shape the employee’s subsequent training. So, first, rather
   than view these eight HR activities as stepwise, it is best to view them holistically—
   because the steps interactively affect each other and work together. The second prob-
   lem is that focusing just on each step may cause the manager to miss, as it were, the
   forest for the trees. It’s not just each step but the results you obtain by applying them
   together that’s important. So, second, it’s important to remember that each and every
   step should be focused on achieving, in unison, some specific result (such as, say,
   improving customer service).
   Recognizing all this, the trend today is to view these eight activities not stepwise
   but as part of a coordinated talent management effort.2
   We will define talent man-
   agement as the holistic, integrated and results and goal-oriented process of planning,
   recruiting, selecting, developing, managing, and compensating employees.
   3
   What does
   this mean in practice? As an example, the manager who takes a talent management
   approach tends to take actions such as the following:


9. He or she starts with the results and asks, “What recruiting, testing, training,
   or pay action should I take to produce the employee competencies we need to
   achieve our company’s goals?”


10. He or she treats activities such as recruiting and training as interrelated. For
    example, the manager knows that having employees with the right skills depends
    as much on recruiting and training as on applicant testing.


11. Because talent management is holistic and integrated, he or she will probably
    use the same “profile” of required human skills, knowledge, and behaviors
    (“competencies”) for formulating a job’s recruitment plans as for making
    selection, training, appraisal, and compensation decisions for it.


12. He or she takes steps to actively coordinate/integrate talent management functions
    such as recruiting and training. For example, HR managers meet to make sure
    they are using the same skills profile to recruit as to select, train, and appraise for
    a particular job, or use talent management software like the following to do so.
    Improving Performance Through HRIS: Talent Management Software
    Because talent management is holistic and interdependent, many employers use
    talent management software systems to coordinate their talent-related activities.
    For example, Talent Management Solutions’ (www.talentmanagement101.com)
    Talent Management Suite includes recruiting, employee performance management,