Connecting international employees' motivations, job crafting strategies and talent management implications. Toward the development of a conceptual framework

Connecting international employees' motivations, job crafting strategies and talent management implications. Toward the development of a conceptual framework

Author(s): Blanca Suarez-Bilbao, Marian Crowley-Henry, Edward O’Connor, Maike Andresen

Blanca Suarez-Bilbao (University of Bamberg and Maynooth University). Contact: blanca.suarez-bilbao@uni-bamberg.de

Marian Crowley-Henry, Edward O’Connor (Maynooth University), Maike Andresen (University of Bamberg).

Abstract

International career paths are rarely ‘linear’. Particularly in the case of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and migrant professionals, individual agency is deployed to ‘carve’ an international career to suit their particular motivations and interests, in response to their micro/meso/macro contextual influences. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore the potential connections between the deployment of career crafting strategies throughout expatriates’ (both assigned and self-initiated) and skilled migrants’ international careers, at the micro/individual level, with the design/application of Talent Management (TM) and Global Talent Management (GTM) policies at the meso/organisational level.

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