Essay Assignment: Leadership and Talent Management
Length: 1500 words.
You are in charge of Talent Management for a medium sized enterprise, it is a bank called Croesus that has 5000 workers. Croesus wants to take a more strategic approach to hiring and developing leaders, and leverage insights from the management sciences field. Currently, practices in Human Resources are rudimentary. This is a result of being new and growing quickly. You need to systematically review their HR practices as they relate to leadership, discussing what to assess, who to assess, how to assess, and what development interventions you recommend the company implement to improve leadership capability.
• Who to measure
• Who are the key people?
• How will you find them?
• Example of working with Team GB (Schlosser&Bond,2019)
• How do you know who are the key people in the organisation?
• How might you identify strategic jobs in an organization?
• How might you identify talent individuals in an organization?
" ...of the myriad of ways that humans differ from one another...the most important have eventually become encoded in our language as trait descriptive terms" (Peabody & Goldberg, 1989 p1)
- Job analysis
- Leadership styles
- Aptitude
- Cognition
- Personality
• Personality disorders?
• Personality De Young's Aspects
• Clinical psychology has a lot to offer managers trying to mitigate risks of poor selection decisions.
• Occupational psychologists have not been paying sufficient attention to these developments until now but should
• How to measure
• Designing your survey
• Tools
• How do you pick them?
• Reliability and validity
• Finally, based on the people and needs identified, what interventions would you do?
Important notes.
It is very important that your suggested approach draws on the research literature rather than relying on intuition or common sense, as applying science to talent management is a what you should be learning to do in this course.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.