ACCA Strategic Professional · Strategic Business Leader · Enabling success: talent management
Corvane Logistics has a rule that every vacancy for a regional manager is advertised only after a manager resigns. Several recent resignations left the posts empty for months, and operations suffered. The HR director proposes identifying and developing a group of high-potential employees in advance so that suitable internal candidates are ready when posts fall vacant. Which talent management concept does this proposal describe?
The proposal describes building a talent pipeline. Identifying and developing high-potential staff in advance creates a pool of ready internal successors, so key posts are filled quickly when vacancies arise, rather than recruiting reactively after a resignation and leaving roles empty.
- ABuilding a talent pipelineCorrect
- BJob enrichment
- CExit interviewing
- DPerformance-related pay
Explanation
A talent pipeline is a pool of identified and developed employees ready to fill key roles as they become vacant. The problem here is reactive recruitment causing gaps. Job enrichment concerns job design, exit interviews look backwards at leavers, and performance pay is a reward tool; none creates ready successors.
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