An Introductory Course on Talent Selection in Organizational Psychology Name of University Author Note

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Organizational Psychology
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Executive Summary: It is the responsibility of an organization to select best fitted candidate
based on their talent and ability from a pool of talent in the society. The selection procedure is
based on unbiased assessment of talent by utilising traditional as well as modern techniques as
deemed suitable for a particular company. The paper aims to assess selection procedure
undertaken by Google LLC, the third largest multinational conglomerate in the world.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................5
Discussion........................................................................................................................................6
Introducing the concept of talent measurement, talent identification and talent retention..........6
Brief overview of the company Google.......................................................................................9
Talent management, identification and retention in Google.......................................................9
Current scenario of the tribulations of Google LLC..................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The variation in the discipline of psychology, which deals with the application of
theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology in the work environment, is known as
organizational psychology (Landy& Conte, 2016). The success of the organization is dependent
on the improvement of employee productivity, motivation, job satisfaction and occupational
safety and health, which can be treated by organizational psychology. The United Kingdom
recognizes the professional organizational psychologists as occupational psychologists (Mertens,
2014). There are 9 protected titles in UK out of waste occupational psychology lies within the
regulation of practitioners’ psychologists by the Health and Care Professions Council(Forest et
al., 2011).. The main objective of the occupational or organisational psychologist is to associate
with the human resource managers and participate in the selection procedures of employees for
that particular organization (Dollard & Bakker, 2010). The aim of this paper is to assess
psychology behind measurement of talent identification of talent and development and retention
of those talents to maintain the efficiency of the workforce in the organisation. Development of
technology and globalisation has rendered the importance of employee retention in every
multinational business corporation. Critical evaluation of employee retention techniques used by
Google LLC corporate will be evaluated in the paper which at present in order to stay at the
vanguard of the industry has been focusing on identifying appropriate talent and expertise which
would effectively demonstrate success in the organization.