Talent Management Practices: The Case of Companies in Thailand

Abstract

Talent management has always been topic
of interest among both practitioners and academics in
term of its concept and practices. The purpose of this
paper is to expose how practitioners in Thailand
define the term talent management and what are
talent management practices used by companies.
Thirteen companies in the Eastern region of Thailand
were selected as the study sample. The result shows
that there are two approaches used in participating
companies’ talent management program. One focuses
on individual and another focuses on individual’s
talents. And there is a thin line between existing
human resource activities and activities apply in
talent management program.