This book highlights the importance of talent management practices in recruiting, developing and retaining talented professionals in the digital and IT&C industry. It unpacks the distinctive characteristics of 'digital talent' represented by a wide spectrum of professionals and managers with digital abilities, competencies and skills who add considerable value to organizations and industries worldwide.

It shows that despite digital talent's increased variety and significant contribution to digital transformation processes, much of the existing human resource and talent management research and practice fail to account for their distinctiveness.

This book calls for the need for a new kind of talent management, referred to as 'digital talent management' (DTM) that is applicable to digital talent and decidedly integrates digital talent's distinctive characteristics into talent management strategies and practices in a human-centered manner.

Drawing upon existing, yet disconnected, streams of literature and empirical evidence derived from the information technology and communication (IT&C) industry, this book defines digital talent and delineates strategies to attract, develop and retain them for an uncertain and renewed future.

Chapter 1: Sustainable management of digital talent.- Chapter 2: Talent management for the retention of digital talent.- Chapter 3: The impact of talent management on the retention of digital talent.- Chapter 4: Conclusion: Retaining digital talent in crisis. Searching for a consistent talent management mix.

ISBN	978-3-030-76749-5
Article number	9783030767495
Media type	Book
Edition number	1st ed. 2021
Copyright year	2021
Publisher	Springer, Berlin
Length	XVII, 75 pages
Illustrations	XVII, 75 p. 2 illus.
Language	English