TALENT MANAGEMENT BY MEANS OF “TRAINEE PROGRAMMES”

Abstract

Talent Management is one of the most important instruments in Human Resources Management (HRM) worldwide. According to the assessment of thousands of HR managers it is not yet managed well. The present author has done a lot of empirical research in the German speaking countries. The result is that in the segment of young business professionals there exist well designedprogrammes, so called“Trainee Programmes” or “Graduate Programmes” especially for economists and similar technical studies. 130 trainee programmes could be analyzed systematically: which goals are followed by which activities and which results came out.
Six hypotheses are tested. They give input for further research and help the HR managers to avoid mistakes. At least in this field of talent management efficient HR work is done.