Talent management in academia: the effect of discipline and context on recruitment

Although talent management is widely discussed in large for - profit organisations and multinationals, it has been little discussed in relation to higher education. This paper examines one aspect of talent management, recruitment, in academia in accounting, in two different countries, Scotland and t...

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Published in:Studies in higher education (Dorchester-on-Thames) 2018-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1196-1214
Main Authors: Paisey, Catriona, Paisey, Nicholas J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ability
Academic staff
Accountability
Accounting
Autonomy
Business Schools
College Faculty
Colleges & universities
Equality
Evaluation Methods
Foreign Countries
Higher education
Human Resources
Power
Professional Autonomy
qualifications
Recruitment
Semi Structured Interviews
staffing
Talent Development
Talent management
Teacher Qualifications
Teacher Recruitment
Transparency
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Summary:Although talent management is widely discussed in large for - profit organisations and multinationals, it has been little discussed in relation to higher education. This paper examines one aspect of talent management, recruitment, in academia in accounting, in two different countries, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. It frames the study around three dilemmas - transparency versus autonomy, the power of human resources versus the power of academics, and equality versus homogeneity. It considers the recruitment context and drivers, what this tells us about how talent is defined, and the insights that can be gained from comparing recruitment across different disciplines and geographical contexts. By examining recruitment in one discipline across different contexts, we show that recruitment is influenced by a complex interplay between subfield and context which can be linked to the strategic priorities of universities in the three contexts, resulting in different definitions of talent.
ISSN:0307-5079
1470-174X
DOI:10.1080/03075079.2016.1239251