“Talent Management: An Approach to Boost Employee Motivation

This is a report on talent management, which is an approach to attract, retain, and motivate employees. The report discusses the importance of talent management in boosting the motivation level of employees and the overall performance of the company. The report also discusses the different approaches to talent management, such as developing job requirements and job descriptions, and providing development opportunities to employees. The report uses Amazon as an example of a company that focuses on talent management, with a separate talent management team that focuses on giving accurate job descriptions to candidates and providing development opportunities to existing employees.

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“Talent management”
It can be said that talent management is considered as the approach through which it can be easy
to boost the motivation level of the employees. It is considered as the set of activities which
helps the company to attract, retain and also motivate the employees. It can be observed that if
company does not focus on talent management approach then it can be difficult for the company
to boost the overall performance of the employees in the workplace (Bratton and Gold, 2017). In
this paper the discussion will be made on the talent management approach, which is important so
that it can be easy to boost the overall growth of the company in the highly competitive market.
In this paper the discussion will be made on the concept of talent management in which the
company that will be selected is “Amazon”. Talent management is considered as the strategy
which helps in recruiting, hiring, retaining the best talent in the workplace.
There are many approach related to talent management. It is necessary to focus on the talent
management approaches so that it can be easy to for the management to achieve growth in the
highly competitive market. The first approach related to talent management is to focus on
developing the job requirement and job descriptions. It is the responsibility of the company to
evaluate the requirement of the job position so that job description can be given with clarity. It
can be seen that for every job opportunity that is posted by the company, whether it is internal or
external, the description which is given is considered as one of the major part (Cappelli and
Keller, 2017).
It is important for the company to make sure that it is clear in relation to the duties and also it is
important to ensure that the people who are applying for the job know should know about the
job. Also, it is important to give every detail so that candidate can apply for the job post. This
will help in minimizing the overall applications of the people who are not qualified for the job
position. In the context to Amazon Company, it has been seen that they consider this approach so
that it can be easy for the candidate to know about the job requirement. The job description given
by the company is descriptive and it contains the overall information so that it can be easy for the
candidates to know about the job (Sparrow, Hird and Cooper, 2015).
In Amazon, there is a separate talent management team that focuses on giving job description to
the candidates. The motive of the company is to offer accurate information to the candidate so
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that the right candidate can apply for the job in the company. It is one of the best strategies that
are considered by the Amazon as it can help the recruiters to select the best talent out of the pool
of candidates in the workplace (Church and Silzer, 2016).
The next approach related to talent management is related to provide development opportunities
to the employees. For existing workers, it is important for the management to offer the
opportunities so that it can be easy to develop their profession. This approach emphasizes on
boosting the talent or the skills of the employees by offering them the development
opportunities. It can be observed that two ways training class should be given on something
interesting topic as it is the best source that can help the professionals to gain more knowledge
(Amazon, 2019). It can be evaluated that with the help of this it can be easy for the employees to
focus on their personal development and also its helps in opining more opportunities in different
field. Like in Amazon, the focus is given on AWS training that helps to bring transformation in
the overall activities of the management. AWS training and certification is offered to the
employees so that they can build the skills related to clouding. The experts are appointed at AWS
and they focus on ensuring the employees learn the latest skills (Amazon, 2019).
Amazon provides digital and classroom training so that it can be convenient for the employees
to learn according to them. There are many employees who focuses on taking training from the
instructor so that they can enhance their skill in the field of cloud computing. By giving this
training, Amazon emphasizes on boosting the talent of the employees. AWS training also offers
the employees to build their technical skills from the accredited instructor. So, in this way
Amazon focuses on managing the skills of the employees which directly result in the talent
management. In comparison to the first approach related to job requirement, it is important that
company should also focus on mentioning about the training at the time of giving the job
description to the candidates, as it helps to generate the interest of the candidates towards the
activities of the company (Amazon, 2019). Also, there are many factors that can influence the
approach related to development opportunities. It can be stated that team building and training
lectures can influence the training process which helps the employees to boost their development
opportunities. The lectures presented to the employees should be interesting so that it can be easy
for the employees to gain the knowledge in relation to the activities conducted in the workplace
(Rees and Smith, 2017).
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Recruitment and selection process can be considered as the approach to talent management. In
this it can be stated that the candidate can have the capability to perform the job but they could
also be the pool of the candidates to be selected. So, to manage the talent in the workplace, it is
necessary for the top management to focus on making true selection so that right candidate can
be selected at the right job (Thunnissen, 2016).
At the time of conducting the recruitment process, it is important for the company to focus on
various tools related to testing, application banks, interviews, references of the employees and
also the resumes so that it can be easy to have proper evaluation of the recruitment and selection
process. In Amazon Company, it has been observed that in campus recruiting the company
conduct the two rounds. The one is online assessment and the second is technical interviews. To
be eligible for the process of recruitment, it is important for the candidate to have the 60% in
class X, XII and graduation. The first step of recruitment process is of online assessment in
which the programming skills are evaluated. This is known as the screening round and the
second round which is known as the final round and it have 4 technical interviews. The topics
that are covered in the interview are related to C language, data structures and DBMS (Cascio
and Boudreau, 2016).
Off campus is also done by the company in which two ways are considered. In off campus, the
company offers an application form on their website through which the interested candidates
have to fill the form. After filling the form the telephonic screening process is conducted and on
the interview is conducted through which the technical skills of the candidates are accessed.
Also, references of the employees are considered from the workers who are already working in
the company. It helps the company in selecting the best candidate who possess the skills required
by the company. After collecting the resumes, the analysis is made of the overall qualification
and experience of the students and according to that the candidates are selected in the Amazon
Company (Gallardo-Gallardo et al., 2015).
So, it can be stated that it is also one of the best talent management approach considered by the
company in which the employees who are capable to perform the activities of the company are
selected. But this approach can only help in attaining success when proper job description
approach is considered. The job description helps the candidate to know the nature of work
offered by the company. The factor that can influence this approach is related with competitors
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present in the market. It can be observed that if there are many competitors of the company, like
in Amazon there are competitors like Flip kart and EBay that impact the overall operations of the
company (Wilson and Breault, 2016).
Effective compensation can be considered as one of the talent management approach. It can be
analyzed that to hire a good talent, it is important for the company to have impressive
compensation rates as it can help to maintain the goodwill in the market. Talent management
should be stated as the stem in relation to the mission and vision of the company as it helps the
employees to search their niche and also it can be easy for them to work towards attaining goals
and objectives in the highly competitive market (Zhang and Bright, 2012).
In relation to the Amazon Company, it can be seen that that there are many benefits which are
offered to the employees so that it can be easy to boost the efficiency towards the work and also
it helps in retaining the talented employees in the workplace. The benefits that are offered to the
employees by the Amazon Company are medical and dental coverage, paid time off and holiday
overtime pay, offers on the purchases from Amazon and 401(K) savings plan. The employees of
the company have the option to select the best medical plan as it can help in selecting the right
health care coverage for their family members also. There can select from various plans related
to health savings account and also multiple network providers (Amazon, 2019).
Financial security is also one of the benefits which are offered to the employees in the company.
In this, it has been seen that Amazon’s 401(K) plan offer the opportunity to defer the overall
compensation for the long time and also various investment offers are given so that the
employees can make the efforts to reach their set goals and targets. This can be considered as the
best process which is considered by the Amazon Company as it helps them to attract, select,
engage and retain the talent in the workplace (Amazon, 2019). But in contrast to the job
selection approach, it is important for the employee to be selected so that they can avail each and
every benefit offered by the management to its customers. The factors that can influence this
approach are related with the labor market. It can be observed that demand and supply of the
labor can influence the employee compensation. The low wages is given, if the demand of the
labor is less and compensation enhances with the enhancement in the overall production level of
the employees. Therefore, it can be said that compensation is one of the approach in relation to
managing the talent in the workplace.
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Socialization is also the approach related with the concept of talent management. In this it has
been observed that employees should consider the process of socialization as it can help in
maintaining culture and also the personality of the employees in the workplace. If they
employees consider the socialization process then only they can be dedicated and productive
employees. It can be boosted if focus is given on training and management development.
Amazon also focused on this concept and it has helped the company to boost the talent of the
employees in the workplace (McDonnell et al., 2017).
Therefore, by analyzing the different approaches it is recommended that to manage the talent in
the workplace, it is important for the company to focus on the concept of motivation. Motivation
is one of the best approaches that can help in boosting the overall efficiency of the employees
towards their work and also it will help to attain positive outcome. With the help of motivation,
the employees can generate their interest towards the work and can easily enhance their
productivity. Therefore, it can be concluded to attract, select, engage and retain the talent, it is
important for the company to focus on different approaches related to talent management so that
it can be simple to compete with the competitors exist in the market.
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