The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management

The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management offers academic researchers, advanced postgraduate students, and reflective practitioners a state-of-the-art overview of the key themes, topics, and debates in talent management.

The Handbook is designed with a multi-disciplinary perspective in mind and draws upon perspectives from, inter alia, human resource management, psychology, and strategy to chart the topography of the area of talent management and to establish the base of knowledge in the field. Furthermore, each chapter concludes by identifying key gaps in our understanding of the area of focus.

The Handbook is ambitious in its scope, with 28 chapters structured around five sections. These include the context of talent management, talent and performance, talent teams and networks, managing talent flows, and contemporary issues in talent management. Each chapter is written by a leading international scholar in the area and thus the volume represents the authoritative reference for anyone working in the area of talent management.

David G Collings, Professor of Human Resource Management, Dublin City University Business School,Kamel Mellahi, Professor of Strategic Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick,Wayne F. Cascio, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado, and Robert H. Reynolds Chair in Global Leadership, University of Colorado Denver

David Collings is Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at Dublin City University Business School where he leads the HR Directors' Roundtable and is Joint Director of the Leadership and Talent Institute. He previously held academic appointments at the University of Sheffield and National University of Ireland Galway and visiting appointments at King's College London and Strathclyde University. His research and consulting interests focus on talent management and global mobility. In 2014 and 2015 he was named as one of the most influential thinkers in the field of HR by HR Magazine. He has published numerous papers in leading international outlets and seven books. He sits on a number of editorial boards including British Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies. He is Senior Editor at Journal of World Business and former Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and the Irish Journal of Management.


Kamel Mellahi is a Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School where he teaches and researches in the areas of international business and strategic management. He research interests straddle international strategies of emerging markets multinationals, nonmarket strategy, and global talent management. He has published eight books and over 80 scholarly articles in top tier journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Management Journal. He serves as a Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business and Consulting Editor for the British Journal of Management. He is a previous (co)-Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Management Reviews.


Wayne F. Cascio holds the Robert H. Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver. He has published 28 books, and more than 185 articles and book chapters. A former president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chair of the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, and member of the Academy of Management's Board of Governors, he is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Australian HR Institute. He received SHRM's Losey Award for Human Resources Research in 2010, and SIOP's Distinguished Scientific Contributions award in 2013.

Part I: Context
1. Introduction, David G. Collings, Kamel Mellahi, and Wayne F. Cascio
2. The Historical Context of Talent Management, Peter Cappelli and J.R. Keller
Part II: Talent and Performance
3. Star Performers, Ernest O'Boyle and Sydney Kroska
4. Within-Person Variability in Performance, Amirali Minbashian
5. The Potential for Leadership, Rob F. Silzer and Walter C. Boreman Rob F. Silzer
6. 1. Managing Talent Across Organizations: The Portability of Individual Performance, Gina Dokko and Winnie Jiang
7. Human Capital Resource Complementarities, Rob E. Ployhart and Ormonde R. Cragun
Part III: Talent, Teams, and Netwaorks
8. Talent and Teams, Rebecca R. Kehoe, Blythe L. Rosikiewicz, and Daniel Tzabbar
9. Talent or Not: Employee Reactions to Talent Designations, Maria Christina Meyers, Giverny De Boeck, and Nicky Dries
10. 1. Virtual Teams: Utilizing Talent Management Thinking to Assess: What We Currently Know about Making Virtual Teams Successful, Travis Maynard, Matti Vartiainen, and Diana Sanchez
11. 1. Stars that Shimmer and Stars that Shine: How Information Overload Creates Significant Challenges for Star Employees, Shad Morris and James Oldroyd
Part IV: Managing Talent Flows
12. Employer Branding and Talent Management, Martin R. Edwards
13. Talent Intermediaries in Talent Acquisition, Rocio Bonet and Monika Hamori
14. Straight Talk about Selecting for Upper-Management, Scott Highhouse and Margaret E. Brooks
15. 1. Managing Talent Flows Through Internal and External Labour Markets, Matthew Bidwell
16. Workforce Differentiation, David G. Collings
17. Succession Planning: Talent Management's Forgotten, but Critical Tool, Anthony J. Nyberg, Donald J. Schepker, Ormonde R. Cragun, and Patrick M. Wright
18. Talent Development: Building Organizational Capability, David V. Day and Patricia M. G. O'Connor
19. Talent and Turnover, John P Hausknecht
20. HR Metrics and Talent Analytics, Alexis A. Fink and Michael C. Sturman
Part V: Talent Management in Context
21. Talent Management in the Global Context, Shaista E. Khilji and Randall S. Schuler
22. Talent Management in The Public Sector: Managing Tensions and Dualities, Paul Boselie and Marian Thunnissen
23. Talent Management in Emerging Economies, Fang Lee Cooke
24. Talent Management in Multinational Corporations, Ingmar Bjorkman, Mats Ehrnrooth, Kristiina Makela, Adam Smale, and Jennie Sumelius
25. Talent Management in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Marion Festing, Katharina Harsch, Lynn Schafer and Hugh Scullion
26. Talent Management of Nonstandard Employees, Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau
27. Integrating Talent and Diversity Management, Darren T. Baker and Elisabeth K. Kelan
28. How is Technology Changing Talent Management?, Gavan O'Shea and Kerrin George