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A skills-matching perspective on talent management: Developing strategic agility

Jooss, Stefan, Collings, David G. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1252-7080, McMackin, John orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6169-3299 and Dickmann, Michael orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3775-663X (2024) A skills-matching perspective on talent management: Developing strategic agility. Human Resource Management, 63 (1). pp. 141-157. ISSN 0090-4848

Abstract
Despite two decades of evolution as an area of research and practice, talent management faces ongoing criticism for being overly static in its approach, offering little in terms of enabling strategic agility. This is problematic as organizations increasingly rely on strategic agility to manage their dynamic business operations. Drawing on matching theory and adopting an agility lens, we explore the link between talent management and strategic agility. Through a qualitative research design, encompassing 34 interviews in 15 organizations, we explicate a skills-matching perspective on talent management, including initial and dynamic skills-matching in external and internal labor markets. Through this process, organizations can build a set of dynamic capabilities, underlying two meta-capabilities, strategic sensitivity and resource fluidity, which enable strategic agility. In doing so, we portray skills-matching as an illustration of a processual view on talent management and create a model of developing strategic agility through skills-matching, responsive to external and internal demands.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Dynamic capabilities, matching theory, skills, strategic agility, talent management
Subjects:Business > Management
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School
Publisher:Wiley Periodicals LLC
Official URL:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/h...
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:32722
Deposited On:02 Jun 2026 14:49 by Tam Nguyen . Last Modified 02 Jun 2026 14:49
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