We consider it difficult to identify the exact sense of the syntagm “ talent management” because of the confusion regarding the definition and terms employed, as well as because of the many suppositions made by the authors who write about it.
Therefore, when defining the concept
of talent management in researchers consider p r o b l e m a t i c a t t e mp t ,
in lit erat ure, many t his a difficult , b e c a u s e i t i s considered that the term proper is not very clear and that, in fact, there is nothing new about this term [1].
Moreover, certain authors do not even try to define the term or simply acknowledge that there is not a unique, consist ent and concise definit ion [2]. Obviously, the different opinions of the sp ecialist s concernin g t alent s make us present, at the beginning, a definition of what talent is understood to mean.
Thus, talent is perceived as a continuation of the aptitude, a superior stage of its development, characterized not only by successfully fulfilling a task, but also by the capacity of creating original works [3].
Also, among the most valuable contributions in this field, there is the one belonging to the Canadian psychologist Françoys Gagné, who defines talent as an exceptional mastery of some systematically d e v e l o p e d ab i l i t i e s ( ap t it ud e s ) a n d knowledge, in at least one field of human activity, at a levelthat places the individual at the minimum among the first 10 % of its equals who are the same sage, and who are or were active in the respective field/fields [4].
As far as the concept of “talent” is concerned in t he t heory of Human Resources Management, it can be regarded from three perspectives:
a) At the organizational level, talent is perceived as specific to the organization and strongly influenced by its area and the nature of its operations.
b) At the group level, most organizations group their talents in talent pools. A talent pool describes a number of employees, detected as talented and i d e n t i f i e s a s e r i e s o f c a t e go r i e s t h a t characterize this conceptualization, as follows [5]: