Talent Management and Talent Development in China: The case of MNCs in Beijing

Talent Management' or TM has increasingly attracted attention from academics and practitioners, but there are many gaps and omissions left for further theoretical and empirical development, not least because of TM's novelty. For instance, there has not been a systematic comparison between TM and traditional HRM practices, and thus debates are emerging regarding whether TM is just a re-packaging of old ideas and not distinct from traditional HR practices or disciplines. The aim of the present research is to gain an understanding of TM among multinational corporations (MNCs) in Beijing, and to discover whether TM practices in China are fundamentally different from traditional HRM.