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Result-based talent identification in road cycling : discovering the next Eddy Merckx Universiteit Gent
In various sports large amounts of data are nowadays collected and analyzed to help scouts with identifying talented young athletes. In contrast, the literature on result-based talent identification in road cycling is remarkably scarce. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the possibilities of the use of publicly available data to discover new talented Under-23 (U23) riders via statistical learning methods (linear regression and ...
The psychology of talent management: A review and research agenda KU Leuven
Across six different streams of the literature (i.e., HRM; I/O psychology; educational psychology; vocational psychology; positive psychology; social psychology) we identify a number of discrepancies (i.e., between practitioner and academic interest; between talentmanagement discourse and practice), theoretical perspectives (i.e., talent as capital; talent asindividual difference; talent as giftedness; talent as identity; talent as strength; and ...
The psychology of talent management: A review and research agenda KU Leuven
Across six different streams of the literature (i.e., HRM; I/O psychology; educational psychology; vocational psychology; positive psychology; social psychology) we identify a number of discrepancies (i.e., between practitioner and academic interest; between talent management discourse and practice), theoretical perspectives (i.e., talent as capital; talent as individual difference; talent as giftedness; talent as identity; talent as strength; ...
Multinational firms and the quest for global talent: Employing (skilled) foreign workers at home and abroad KU Leuven
Multinational firms can access global talent in two ways: by employing migrants in their home country, or by employing foreign workers in their overseas affiliates. Taking a knowledge based perspective, we conceptualize these employment decisions as simultaneous and subject to management coordination. Substitution effects are greater when there is a larger wage cost differential between home and host countries, leading to a cost reduction ...
Do research, create knowledge, feed your talent: an overview of research at Operations Research & Scheduling Universiteit Gent
A philosophical approach to talent development Universiteit Antwerpen
High ability and talent development literature present different and sometimes competing or contradictory goals for talent development. One side emphasizes that talents should be developed to enable individuals with high abilities to make societal contributions, while the other side focuses on the individual’s personal life goals. This article investigates how the philosophical theories of Aristotle and Kant can contribute to a better ...
Employee reactions to talent management KU Leuven
About 65 percent of organizations worldwide have talent management (TM) practices in place, with 5 to 10 percent of their employees being identified as a talent annually. Seemingly unhindered by a lack of empirical evidence, in recent years organizations have decided to include more and more employees in their talent pools, with the goal of making them more 'inclusive'. Social comparison theory, however, states that being outperformed by a less ...
The good, the bad, and the talented: entrepreneurial talent and selfish behavior Universiteit Antwerpen
Talent allocation models assume that entrepreneurially talented people are selfish and thus allocate into unproductive or even destructive activities if these offer the highest private returns. This paper experimentally analyzes selfish preferences of the entrepreneurially talented. We find that making a distinction between creative talent and business talent explains systematic differences in selfish behavior. Generally, both the less ...