Middle managers as key talent management stakeholders: Navigating paradoxes

IF 3.4 3区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT European Management Review Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.1111/emre.12587
Stefan Jooss, Anthony McDonnell, Agnieszka Skuza
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Middle managers are critical in talent management practice. Yet, their commitment to enacting organisational strategies and policies is often limited given their multiplicity of responsibilities and tasks beyond talent management. Taking a paradox lens and a multi-stakeholder perspective, we draw from 147 interviews with middle managers, HR leaders and talents to unpack two key paradoxes when managing talent: a short-term–long-term paradox and a function–organisation paradox. Our research reveals a range of defensive and proactive responses to these paradoxes, which leads us to develop a typology of middle manager approaches navigating paradoxes in talent management. This typology depicts features, tensions and examples of middle managers' approach to managing talent. We introduce the extent of intradepartmental involvement and interdepartmental collaboration as key features and illustrate spatial and temporal tensions underlying paradoxes. We conclude with implications of the (in)effective management of paradoxes in a talent context.

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中层管理者作为关键人才管理利益相关者:驾驭悖论
中层管理人员在人才管理实践中至关重要。然而,由于他们在人才管理之外还承担着多重责任和任务,因此他们在制定组织战略和政策方面的投入往往受到限制。我们从悖论的视角和多方利益相关者的视角出发,通过对中层管理者、人力资源领导者和人才的 147 次访谈,解读了人才管理中的两个关键悖论:短期-长期悖论和职能-组织悖论。我们的研究揭示了对这些悖论的一系列防御性和前瞻性反应,这促使我们对中层管理者驾驭人才管理悖论的方法进行了分类。这种类型学描述了中层管理人员管理人才的方法的特点、紧张关系和实例。我们将部门内参与和部门间合作的程度作为关键特征,并说明了悖论背后的空间和时间紧张关系。最后,我们阐述了在人才背景下有效管理矛盾的意义。
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期刊介绍: The European Management Review is an international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public sector organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis. The European Management Review provides an international forum for dialogue between researchers, thereby improving the understanding of the nature of management in different settings and promoting the transfer of research results to management practice. Although one of the European Management Review"s aims is to foster the general advancement of management scholarship among European scholars and/or those academics interested in European management issues.
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