Is Talent Manager the New Job Title for Human Resources Manager?

Khalil Aït Saïd (1, 2) , Youssef Souak (3) , Warda Azaghouagh-El Fardi (4)

1 LAREQUOI - Laboratoire de recherche en Management
2 IAE Versailles Graduate School of Management, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ
3 ESCE International Business School, INSEEC U. Research Center
4 IRGO - Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations

Talent management has become a central managerial concern, particularly in human resource management. Skillfully mixing HR and marketing functions, the talent manager is increasingly present in human resources job offers. However, "talent" as well as talent manager assignments are less clear and less precise. In this paper, we try to focus on the sense of "talent" given by talent managers themselves and on how they implement talent management in organization. Through a qualitative approach, we mobilize primary (semi-structured interviews) and secondary data (job offers) in a French context. The results show that organizations use "talent" as a rhetoric in order to improve their employer brand. The respondents indicate that talent management practices are so close to those of human resources management functions. What distinguishes the two functions the most is the proximity management.

Mots clés: Talent manager; Human resources managers; Rhetoric

Domaines: Gestion et management

Khalil Aït Saïd, Youssef Souak, Warda Azaghouagh-El Fardi. Is Talent Manager the New Job Title for Human Resources Manager?. EUMMAS A2S Conference on Global Social and Technological Development and Sustainability, EUMMAS, Feb 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ⟨hal-04471478⟩