Title: Grounding a joint perspective around tensions in talent literature

Authors: Elaheh Kimia; Sayyed Mohsen Allameh

Addresses: Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran ' Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract: This article determines a common perspective for talent tensions by insisting talented individuals' viewpoints on how to be treated in the talent management system (TMS). Thus, multi-sources qualitative data through Glaserian approach of grounded theory (GT) are employed for study in an Iranian context. Along purposive and theoretical sampling, semi-structured interviews are held among professors, managers, and talented employees. Through substantive and theoretical coding in MaxQDA12, the emerged GT forms around employability quest regarding transformation of self in 'identity-self' theoretical coding family. Corresponding categories inform the joint TM practical and theoretical perspective. The common boundary considers elites' core-self at the centre of talent phenomena (TP) formation with presenting their protean and boundaryless job orientations as intermediary of employability quest and individual entrepreneurship. Also, eliteness role posits as consequence of TP management around elites' entrepreneurial creativity anchor. Implications are also suggested for practical and scholar applicability.

Keywords: self-concept; talent; protean career architect; social-worth; job improvement; identity-self; Glaserian analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2020.111642

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2020 Vol.35 No.4, pp.497 - 518

Received: 20 Jun 2018
Accepted: 16 Oct 2018
Published online: 07 Dec 2020 *

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