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Talent Management Practices as an Instrument for Stimulating Employees’ Entrepreneurship
Talent Management Practices as an Instrument for Stimulating Employees’ Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Aneta Karasek
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: innovativeness; talent management; entrepreneurship; innovation

Summary/Abstract: Innovation constitutes a source of competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises are interested in finding innovative solutions. Employees, and their entrepreneurship in particular, play a significant role in the process. Moreover, the literature of the subject highlights the significance of talented employees for innovative enterprises. It can also be observed that constituting elements of talents clearly correspond with characteristic features of entrepreneurial individuals. As a consequence, enterprises interested in innovative growth implement HRM practices in talent management which foster employees’ entrepreneurship. The current paper presents results of a study conducted among 92 innovative Polish enterprises. The enterprises frequently created conditions facilitating the development of talented workers and their contributionto the innovative process. Relationships between the application of HRM practices in talent management and enterprises’ innovation were observed in three aspects. There existed relationships between HRM practices in talent management and internal sources of innovation, effectiveness of the search and implementation of the innovative process, and the scale of novelty of implemented innovations.

  • Issue Year: 27/2018
  • Issue No: 1/2
  • Page Range: 34-44
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Polish