HR Practitioners' Perspectives on Talent Management in Thailand : Quantitative and Qualitative Studies
Abstract
This study (1) investigated Thai human resource (HR) practitioners' perspectives on talent management in terms of their definition and understanding; and (2) proposed key factors that influence effective talent management in Thailand. To determine this, four hundred structured questionnaires were disseminated to 400 HR practitioners and forty out of these were interviewed. The study discovered that talent management is still a new and challenging HR issue in which the succession planning was recognized and utilized as the foundation of talent management in both public and private organizations. The majority of in-depth interview participants suggested that they wished to manage individual talent as such encouraging and unleashing employees' potential, but they did not know how and where to begin the process.
These problems significantly discouraged HR practitioners from proposing any creative ideas about managing talent to their top executives. Thus, the participants mutually agreed that to provide some promising scientific information is an urgent HR agenda. There are currently few empirical investigations in the field of talent management in the Thai business context.
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