Intersectionality in Talent Management: Broadening our Sight for More Inclusive Theorizing

Afouni, Fida; Straub, Caroline (2020). Intersectionality in Talent Management: Broadening our Sight for More Inclusive Theorizing Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), p. 13005. 10.5465/ambpp.2020.13005symposium

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The extant work on talent management has largely promoted neoliberal agendas concerned with ranking, rating, and recording employees’ talent, or indeed lack of talent. While there are emerging insights that unravel the gendered, racialized, and classed logics underpinning dominant TM writings, there is largely an acceptance of TM as a philosophy, and there has been limited work that challenges the epistemological foundations of TM. We argue that talent management philosophies that have strengthened instrumentalism are conceived as a managerial tool that showed a commitment to capitalistic frameworks, and ignored critical management studies, which stress the importance of resistance, and the power relations that shape, constrain, and may hinder opportunities for all employees. In line with this year’s AOM theme “Broadening our Sight”, this presenter symposium aims to broaden our sight for more …

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

Business School > Institute for New Work
Business School > Institute for New Work > New Forms of Work and Organisation
Business School

Name:

Afouni, Fida and
Straub, Caroline

Subjects:

H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)

ISSN:

0065-0668

Language:

English

Submitter:

Caroline Straub

Date Deposited:

14 Aug 2024 10:08

Last Modified:

14 Aug 2024 10:08

Publisher DOI:

10.5465/ambpp.2020.13005symposium

Related URLs:

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/22117

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