This book highlights the importance of talent management practices in recruiting, developing and retaining talented professionals in the digital and IT&C industry. It unpacks the distinctive characteristics of 'digital talent' represented by a wide spectrum of professionals and managers with digital abilities, competencies and skills who add considerable value to organizations and industries worldwide.
It shows that despite digital talent's increased variety and significant contribution to digital transformation processes, much of the existing human resource and talent management research and practice fail to account for their distinctiveness.
This book calls for the need for a new kind of talent management, referred to as 'digital talent management' (DTM) that is applicable to digital talent and decidedly integrates digital talent's distinctive characteristics into talent management strategies and practices in a human-centered manner.
Drawing upon existing, yet disconnected, streams of literature and empirical evidence derived from the information technology and communication (IT&C) industry, this book defines digital talent and delineates strategies to attract, develop and retain them for an uncertain and renewed future.
About the Author: Sorin Dan (Ph.D., KU Leuven) is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vaasa's Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab, Finland. Dr. Dan's expertise includes talent management, innovation studies and administrative reform. His research has been published by Palgrave Macmillan and journals, such as Public Management Review and Public Performance & Management Review.
Diana Ivana (Ph.D., Babeș-Bolyai University) is lecturer at Babeş-Bolyai University and HR manager at NTT DATA Romania. Her work focuses on talent management, quality management and entrepreneurship. In both her research and teaching, Dr. Ivana has extensively drawn upon her experience in talent management in the IT&C industry.
Monica Zaharie (Ph.D., Babeș-Bolyai University) is associate professor at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her expertise includes human resource management, talent management and international assignments. Dr. Zaharie has co-authored five books and her research has been published in international journals, such as European Management Journal, Scientometrics or the Journal of Business Ethics.
Daniel Metz (Ph.D., Babeș-Bolyai University) is CEO at NTT DATA Romania and associate lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai University. Dr. Metz was previously the founder and CEO of EBS Romania, a company founded in 2000 and acquired by NTT DATA in 2013. He had previously held senior positions in a German company.
Mihaela Drăgan (Ph.D., Babeș-Bolyai University) is professor and head of the department of economics and business administration in German language at Babeș-Bolyai University. Dr. Drăgan has authored three books in German, co-authored five other books and has published over 80 articles in various national and international journals.
