Week 4

Talent Management Plan, Part 1

For this Assignment, you will complete and submit your Talent Management Plan. Over the past two weeks, you considered the approaches and strategies you would recommend to select, identify, develop, and evaluate talented employees. This week, you will consider the approaches and strategies you would recommend to recruit and retain talented employees.

To Prepare for this Assignment:

· Review Chapter 4 in the Aamodt textbook,  Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach, Chapter 23 in  The SAGE Handbook and the article, “Talent Management: Conceptual Approaches and Practical Challenges.” Pay particular attention to considerations related to attracting and retaining talented employees.

· Revisit the information presented about Webbutik in this week’s media. This time examine the strengths and limitations of the organization’s current approaches to recruiting and retaining talented employees.

· Think about how you might apply what you have learned this week to help the organization improve the recruitment and retention of talented employees.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Recruitment and Retention

· Aamodt, M. (2016).  Industrial/organizational psychology: An applied approach (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

· Chapter 4, “Employee Selection: Recruiting and Interviewing” (pp. 118–135 only)

· Time Estimate: 60 minutes

· Allen, D. G., & Vardaman, J. M. (2017). Recruitment and retention across cultures.  Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Links to an external site. , 4, 153–181.

· Time Estimate: 70 minutes

· Li, X., & Song, Z. (2018). Recruitment, job search, and job choice: an integrated literature review. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.),  The SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychology Links to an external site.  (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 489-507). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.

· Note: Chapter 17

· Time Estimate: 60 minutes

· Al-Emadi, A. A. Q., Schwabenland, C., & Qi Wei. (2015). The vital role of employee retention in human resource management: A literature review.  IUP Journal of Organizational BehaviorLinks to an external site. , 14(3), 7–32.

Talent Management

· Cappelli, P., & Keller, J. K. (2014). Talent management: Conceptual approaches and practical challenges.  Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational BehaviorLinks to an external site. , 1(1), 305–331.

· Note: You were first introduced to this reading in Week 2. Review again for this week.

· Time Estimate: 20 minutes

· Meyers, M., & Paauwe, J. (2018). Talent management. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.),  The SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychology Links to an external site.  (2nd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 517-544). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.

· Note: You were first introduced to this reading in Weeks 2 and 3. Review again for this week.

· Time Estimate: 30 minutes

· Vosburgh, R. M. (n.d.).  Talent management: Practitioner ponderingsLinks to an external site. . Retrieved from https://www.siop.org/Research-Publications/TIP/TIP-Back-Issues/2017/October/ArtMID/20295/ArticleID/869/Practitioner-Ponderings-Talent-Management

· Note: You were first introduced to this reading in Week 2. Review again for this week.

· Time Estimate: 15 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: Submit a 12-slide narrated, PowerPoint presentation of your Talent Management Plan. Use the  Walden University PowerPoint Presentation TemplateLinks to an external site.  to create your presentation, including the speaker notes area at the bottom of each slide to provide further details and explanations of your points. Then use  Kaltura to record your presentation. For guidance on submitting a video to an Assignment, please refer to the  Kaltura button from the  Classroom Support Center (accessed via the  Help button). You can practice as many times as you would like before handing in your final video Assignment.

Your presentation should include the following components. For each component, be sure to include an analysis of at least two theories, models, principles, or themes that support the approach you recommend. Also, be sure to incorporate Instructor feedback from your Weeks 2 and 3 Assignments.

· Selecting and Identifying Talented Employees

· What insights have you gained about job analysis, assessment, and selection that could contribute to a comprehensive Talent Management Plan?

· What two principles, models, or themes related to job analysis, assessment, and candidate selection seem relevant to the task of developing a Talent Management Plan?

· How might these principles, models, or themes inform or guide an approach to selecting and identifying talented employees for the retail organization Webuttik, presented in this week’s media?

· Developing Talented Employees

· What are some approaches/models for conducting a needs analysis, and which ones might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik?

· What are some approaches/models for conducting the training and development of employees, and which ones might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik?

· Managing the Performance of Talented Employees

· What are some approaches/models for performance management, and which ones might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik?

· Recruiting and Retaining Talented Employees

· What strategies would you recommend that Webuttik implement to recruit quality candidates?

· How can Webuttik ensure that candidates are not only capable to fill positions once fully trained, but also are likely to stay in those positions for a given period of time?

· What factors do you think might influence retention at Webuttik, and what could be done to improve retention in the organization?