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Digital Talent Management Strategies and Practices

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This chapter surveys the literature regarding organizational attraction, development and retention strategies as they apply to digital talent. In combination with the literature review, the chapter integrates key practices found in the information and communication technology industry and discusses their implications for digital talent management.

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  1. University of Vaasa InnoLab, Vaasa, Finland

    Sorin Dan

  2. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Diana Ivana, Monica Zaharie, Daniel Metz & Mihaela Drăgan

  3. NTT DATA, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Diana Ivana & Daniel Metz

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Dan, S., Ivana, D., Zaharie, M., Metz, D., Drăgan, M. (2021). Digital Talent Management Strategies and Practices. In: Digital Talent Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76750-1_3

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