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Talent management for NHS managers: human resources or resourceful humans?

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  • Fraser Macfarlane
  • Joanne Duberley
  • Chris Fewtrell
  • Martin Powell

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The need for effective leadership in the UK public sector has been a prominent discourse in recent years. One aspect of this is a growing interest in talent management. This article examines the evolution of processes used for managing talent and developing leaders in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) by applying human resource management theory to an empirical case study. Our aim was to provide a constructive, but critical, analysis of the current role of managerial talent management and to comment on the suitability of the adopted approach in the NHS. Over the past three decades the NHS has come to adopt an increasingly ‘hard’ approach to talent management, i.e. rationalistic, managerial and narrowly focused on leadership competencies and senior management roles. This parallels a more general shift in the NHS from its traditional public sector ethos and humanistic values to more business-oriented values and ways of working.

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  • Fraser Macfarlane & Joanne Duberley & Chris Fewtrell & Martin Powell, 2012. "Talent management for NHS managers: human resources or resourceful humans?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(6), pages 445-452, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:32:y:2012:i:6:p:445-452
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2012.728786
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    3. Charbel El Ammar, 2021. "Talent Management Philosophy in Public Sector: A Key for Managing Conflicts and Contradictions," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 8, pages 69-92.
    4. Roberto Luna-Arocas & Francisco J. Lara, 2020. "Talent Management, Affective Organizational Commitment and Service Performance in Local Government," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-15, July.
    5. Shimaa Elkomy & Zahra Murad & Veronica Veleanu, 2018. "Does Leadership Matter for Healthcare Service Quality? Evidence from NHS England," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2018-08, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.

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