The “War for Talent” is fought on a global turf. Business impératives and dynamics in a world-wide context, propelled in a technologically effervescent environment, élude organization’s search for that all-fit “ideal” talent. A talent pool that’s technologically competent, communication and network savvy, attitudinally positive, socially and culturally understanding, and capable of delivering r...

The role of perceived self-efficacy is important to human social development and to learning in general, but how it relates to music talent development is not well understood. This article explores the concept of perceived self-efficacy as it relates to the development of musical talent by considering what is meant by the concepts of high ability in music and self-efficacy, and by discussing th...

Career Concerns and the Acquisition of Firm-Specific Skills by Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné and Olivier Cadot This paper studies compensation schemes that can motivate a worker to acquire nonverifiable firm-specific skills, when the acquisition process is also one of learning about managerial talent. At the beginning of the employment relationship, the worker encounters opportunities to enhance he...

Rosenholtz and Simpson have suggested that the task structures, ability grouping practices, and evaluation practices present in a classroom are important determinants of the degree to which children's ability perceptions become stratified within the classroom. The effects of classroom practices on stratification of pupils' self-perceptions of math ability were estimated in 67 upper elementary m...

I study the origin of people’s beliefs about their own abilities, emphasizing the feedback loop between beliefs, effort, and outcomes. Consistent with the modern understanding of depression, I show that agents who are either more pessimistic about their own talent or less sure of their own talent are more prone to low-effort traps. I also show that a principal (such as a parent or manager) does...

the main purpose of research was analysis of agricultural educator's creativity and investigating it's relation with effective contextual variables. research method was descriptive- survey and applied-developmental methods were used. statistical population consisted of agricultural educators of agricultural education centers in kermanshah province (n=60) that studied by census method....

successful organizations take action to ensure that they have the human resources to meet their current and future business needs. organizations require much greater flexibility to account for individual needs than in the past and have to find new ways to manage resulting challenges. talent management (tm) will play a critical role in this context to help businesses succeed. talent management i...

Organizations around the world are faced with a multitude of economic, social, ethical, and geo-political challenges. The uncertainty of the current economic crisis is limiting growth and innovation across market sectors. The globalization of international trade has created more complex and interdependent flows of people, goods, funds, and technology across national boundaries. More people than...