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Talent Strategy: Alignment and Integration

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Developing a talent strategy is a way to bridge the gap between short-term needs (mostly phenomenon-driven) and the longer-term creation of value for stakeholders (strategy-driven). The products of talent strategy are enough talented people in the workforce for current and future health services. An effective talent strategy ensures the right mix of health workers in the right place at the right time with the right resources needed to perform their jobs and management support to enable them to work effectively to their full scope of practice.

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Turner, P. (2018). Talent Strategy: Alignment and Integration. In: Talent Management in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57888-0_6

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