Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms, 1st ed. 2016
Global Strategy and Local Challenges

Investigating talent management in firms from emerging economies, this book discusses strategies and practices of managing talented employees in the context of BRIC countries. Talent Management in Emerging Market Firms illustrates how emerging multinationals use their talent management to create and extend competitive advantage in global markets, and how they support their competition with talent as their main asset. Extending the talent management perspective, the book compares companies from Brazil, Russia, India and China to provide the link between talent management practices, a firm?s performance and organizational competitiveness within the context of emerging economies.

Introduction: The next wave of emerging talent.- Chapter 1: The nature of talent management and its role in modern organizations.- Chapter 2: Cross-country perspectives of management of talented employees in emerging world.- Chapter 3: Competitive advantages of emerging market firms: is talent management involved?.- Chapter 4: Attracting the best and leaving the rest.- Chapter 5: The good, the excellent and the potential: talent’ performance management.- Chapter 6: Creating talent organization via employees’ training and development.- Chapter 7: Corporate universities as a tool for talent development.- Chapter 8: Rewarding strategies of emerging market firms: creating and supporting talent motivation.- Conclusion:  The lessons learned.

Marina Latukha is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the Graduate School of Management, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. She is also the lead researcher at the Centre for the Study of Emerging Market and Russian Multinational Enterprises. Marina is the author of a number of research articles and case studies on international and strategic human resource and talent management, and emerging market firms.