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Talent Management in Higher Education

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Series editors: Vlad Vaiman and David Collings

This series focusses on talent management, one of the fastest growing areas of research in the areas of business and management. As a topic, it bridges a number of core management areas, including human resource management, organizational psychology, strategy and international business.

The series features monographs and edited collections exploring both research and practical perspectives on contemporary talent management. The main aim of the series is to provide a key outlet for scholars wishing to publish novel perspectives on talent and talent management from across disciplinary divides. It also provides an opportunity for those seeking to explore new and innovative issues and topics in this area in greater depth. The series will bring together emerging theoretical approaches with real-world practitioner perspectives from across a range of subjects in this field, including (but not limited to):

• Employer branding

• Talent analytics

• Global talent management

• Talent turnover

• Talent retention

• Talent development

• Talent and teams

• Distribution of performance

• Transferability of performance

• Contextual performance

• Performance and potential

• Talent management in SMEs

• Talent management in the public sector

• Talent management in developing economies

Previous volumes in this series:

• Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies

  By Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott

• Managing Talent: A Critical Appreciation

  Edited by Stephen Swailes

• Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World

  Edited by David Allen and James Vardaman

• Talent Management: A Decade of Developments

  Edited by David G. Collings, Vlad Vaiman and Hugh Scullion

• Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry

  Edited by Stefan Jooss, Ralf Burbach and Huub Ruël

• Global Talent Management During Times of Uncertainty

  Edited by Francine Schlosser and Deborah M. Mcphee

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Talent Management in Higher Education

EDITED BY

MARIAN THUNNISSEN

Utrecht University and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

AND

PAUL BOSELIE

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

About the Contributors

Marieke Adriaanse is Professor of Behavioral Interventions in Population Health at Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Center. Before working in Leiden, she worked as Associate Professor at Utrecht University, where she was Co-chair of the Recognition and Rewards pillar of the Open Science programme. In this role, she contributed to the development of the new Utrecht University vision on and system of Recognition and Rewards. Currently, she is Recognition and Rewards Ambassador of the Leiden University Academia in Motion programme.

Loes van Beuningen, PhD, is Coordinating Researcher at the Research Group Dynamic Talent Interventions of Fontys University of Applied Sciences of Human Resource Management and Applied Psychology (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). She is also teaching at the Open University (Heerlen, the Netherlands) and working as a Guest Researcher at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) with a focus on the well-being and academic achievement of doctoral students with characteristics of giftedness.

Paul Boselie is Professor in Public Administration and Organization Science at Utrecht University. He is specialized in Human Resource Management (HRM) in public sector organizations. He was Head of Department of the Utrecht University School of Governance. From 1 September 2023, he is the Chief Open Science at Utrecht University. From 2019 to 2023, he was Chair of the Open Science subtheme Recognition and Rewards aimed at transforming Academia. He has published his work in journals such as Health Care Management Review, Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Human Relations, The International Journal of HRM, Journal of Management Studies, Personnel Review and Public Management Review. His interview in Nature (25 June 2021) caused a worldwide debate on abandoning the journal impact factor for HRM purposes in Academia.

Jeroen Bosman (ORCID: 0000-0001-5796-2727) is a Scholarly Communications Specialist and Geoscience Librarian at Utrecht University Library. He is recognition and rewards fellow in the Open Science programme of Utrecht University. He is member of the national project team for revisioning the framework for open access monitoring in the Netherlands. He is an expert in the field of open science and open access policy, practices and tools, as well as scholarly search engines. His main interests are Open Access and Open Science in all academic fields, scientometrics and research evaluation. He has 25+ years teaching experience in academic information skills and has led dozens of Open Science workshops, including internationally. He has co-authored numerous publications in the field of scholarly communication, including reports commissioned by VSNU (currently UNL) on publication cultures, by cOAlition S on Plan S compliant publication venues, and by Science Europe on diamond open access journals.

Marloes van Engen is Associate Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management at the Institute of Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her passion in teaching and research lies in understanding and managing diversity, equality and inclusion in organisations and in sustainability in work and care. She is a Programme Director for the Master Business Administration at Radboud University. She has published in, among others, the Academy of Management Annals, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and The International Journal of HRM. She was Chief Diversity Officer for Tilburg University (2013–2018) advising the Executive Board and managing the Gender Policy Department.

Judith de Haan works as the Open Science Programme Manager at Utrecht University (UU). This programme started in 2019 and consists of topics such as ‘Open Education’, ‘Recognition & Rewards’, ‘Public Engagement’, ‘Open Access’ and ‘FAIR data & Software’. Leading a dedicated team, she steers the implementation of open science principles at UU, effectively bridging the gap between policy and practical execution. Her academic roots lie in the field of biomedical sciences, where she completed her PhD within the Experimental Cardiology Department at the University Medical Center in Utrecht (UMCU). Throughout her PhD, her passion for open science developed. Notably, she became part of the preclinicaltrials.eu team, a group dedicated to the preregistration of animal research. In 2018, she continued her professional journey at UMCU, where she played a pivotal role in enhancing research departments through the implementation of a customer excellence programme. These experiences have equipped her with insights and skills that she now applies in her current role.

Stefan Heusinkveld is an Associate Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. His current research concentrates on the translation of management ideas, with a special interest in studying the role of different professions and occupations. His work on these topics appeared in journals such as Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Review, Information & Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning and Organization Studies. His books have been published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Routlegde. He serves on the editorial boards of Organization, and Organization Studies, is Consulting Editor of Journal of Professions and Organization and is Co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Management Ideas.

Sicco de Knecht is Head of Research Policy at Leiden University. In his previous role as Open Science Programme Coordinator at Utrecht University, he contributed to the development of a new vision and system of Recognition and Rewards. As Senior Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, he worked on open science, public engagement and science for policy.

Bianca Kramer (ORCID: 0000-0002-5965-6560) has been Scholarly Communication/Open Science Librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years and recently moved to an independent consulting/research analyst role, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure. She has co-authored commissioned reports on a quantitative analysis of publication types in Dutch research outputs, a gap analysis of Plan S-compliant publication venues and the diamond open access (OA) landscape and conducted a large-scale investigation comparing coverage of metadata in open metadata sources including Crossref and OpenAlex, the latter in collaboration with the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI). She has also been involved in a recent revision of the UNL (Universities of the Netherlands) Definition Framework Open Access monitoring. She is founding member of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and is currently a member of the Preprint Advisory Group of Crossref, as well as the Europe PMC and Literature Services Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL-EBI.

Brigitte Kroon is Associate Professor Human Resource Studies at the School of Social and Behavioral Science, Tilburg University. Her research and teaching focus on HRM and decent work in the context of non-standard work (e.g., small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), seasonal work, migrant workers) and evidence-based HRM. She is the Academic Director of the Bachelor HRS. She has published in peer-referenced books and journals like International Journal of Human Resource management and the Human Resource Management Journal. As a member of the Lokaal Overleg (Works Council) of Tilburg University (2011–2020), she participated in the advisory board of the Gender Equality Project.

Christina Meyers obtained her PhD from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in 2015. She used to work as Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University. As an independent researcher she is involved in academic research and publications. Her research interests include applied positive psychology, employee well-being, employee strengths and talents and organizational talent management.

Frank Miedema is Emeritus Professor at Utrecht University. He was until September 2023 Vice Rector for Research and Chair of the Utrecht University Open Science Programme. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Groningen, with a minor in the Philosophy of Science. From 1983, he was a Project Leader in the Immunovirology of HIV/AIDS, as part of the Amsterdam Cohort Studies. He was appointed Director of Sanquin Research in Amsterdam in 1998. In 2004, he became head of the Immunology Department at the University Medical Center Utrecht. From January 2009 to March 2019, he was Dean and Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is one of the initiators in 2013 of Science in Transition (www.scienceintransition.nl/english) who argued that the academic incentive and reward system is in need of fundamental reform. The impact on society must be valued more, and societal stakeholders should be involved more in the production of knowledge. In 2021, he published ‘Open Science: The Very Idea’ at Open Access at Springer.

Sanne Nijs is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her main research interests include talent management, inclusive HRM and non-standard employment. She adopts a critical stance on talent management and is interested in discovering how talent management creates and reproduces social inequalities. Her main goal is to create more inclusive ways of managing talent, paying attention to non-standard, ‘non-ideal’ workers. In order to do this, she seeks to establish interdisciplinary connections (e.g., strategic HRM, diversity and positive psychology). She has published her work in, among others, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of World Business and Journal of Vocational Behavior and Talent Development in the Context of Higher Education (Emerald Publishing, 2024).

Joop Schippers is Professor of Labour Economics at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance of Universiteit Utrecht (UU) and one of the coordinators of the multidisciplinary UU platform Future of Work. His research covers the broad field of work and social inequality, with a focus on gender- and age-related differentials. Over the years, he has participated in several executive and advisory boards, both within and outside UU. He has been awarded several proofs of recognition for his successful efforts to create policy impact with the research of his team.

Christine Teelken (ORCID: 0000-0002-7211-5574) works as an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is Programme Director of the Bachelor Public Administration and Organization Sciences. Her research concerns higher education, specially (post)academic careers, diversity and governance. She was Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education Quarterly for three years and is active in the ECER conference as link and co-convenor. She has published widely, for example, in Organization Studies, Journal of Professional Organizations and Higher Education and Studies in Higher Education. Recently, she co-published a special issue on post-PhD careers.

Marian Thunnissen works as a Professor at Utrecht University School of Governance and at the school of HRM and Applied Psychology of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). At Fontys, she is the chair of the Fontys research group on Talent Management, and the chair of the Fontys Knowledge Center on Lifelong Learning. At Utrecht University, she holds a professorship on talent development and lifelong learning in the context of higher education. She has over 25 years of experience in research, teaching and consulting. Throughout her whole career, her research has been focussed on the topic of professional development, careers and HRM, with a specific interest in the public sector and in higher education. She has published several articles, books and book chapters on talent management and talent development, among others, on talent management in the public sector and in academia.

Inge van der Weijden (ORCID: 0000-0001-5255-3430) is a Senior Researcher and PhD Coordinator at the Center for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She conducts both qualitative and quantitative research on the work experiences and evaluation of early career researchers in order to better understand their career development within and outside academia. Special attention is given to mental health. She also acts as Coordinator of the EARLI Special Interest Group ‘Researcher Education and Careers’. She completed her PhD in 2007 at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 2020 to 2023, she was the President of the Netherlands Centre of Expertise for Doctoral Education.

Marianne van Woerkom is Professor of Positive Psychology in the Context of Human Resource Studies within the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Employee well-being and development are central themes in her research. Inspired by positive psychology, she is interested in how a strength-based approach can allow individuals and organizations to thrive.