Merging strategy and talent management : challenges and practical applications / Joy Noree Maramba-Turqueza

Editor's Note: People who research and publish on personality andsocial psychology tend to be, in the main, academics. While we assume that our theories and findings are relevant to the wider world of work, business, and social interaction where we expect them to play out, few career researchers have a day-to-day engagement with these domains. Not only is this a blind-spot-it can distort the relationship between science and industry, both of which are co-constructors of the social realities that interest us. As a useful way to correct our usually inward and in-group discussions, we have invited a contributor to provide a view from the "head office", and how our science might be informed by the problems that preoccupy people on the front-lines of human resources and management. The picture we get tells us much about how and why our work often fails to be relevant to the people we expect to benefit the most from it, and the pragmatic urgency that tends to compete with the value of searching for fundamental answers.

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