Pese a que la investigación en Gestión de Talento ha avanzado mucho en los últimos años (Gallardo-Gallardo et al., 2015), poco se conoce sobre cómo se gestiona este talento en pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMEs) y en países de habla no inglesa. Así, este trabajo contribuye al avance de este campo al analizar cómo entienden el talento y cómo lo gestionan las PYMEs dedicadas al sector de la construcción en España. Se ha realizado una investigación cualitativa basada en una serie de entrevistas semiestructuradas de carácter exploratorio a directivos del sector de la construcción. Los resultados muestran como si bien en estas empresas se concibe el talento como persona, su aproximación es distinta: a veces inclusiva otras exclusiva. Asimismo, se han analizado las prácticas que realiza cada empresa y se han comparado con el ideal de la Gestión del Talento llegando a la conclusión de que las PYMEs españolas del sector de la construcción no poseen una mentalidad de talento, no poseen una estrategia de talento ni realizan una gestión de talento de forma explícita. No obstante, todo parece indicar que cada día que pasa son más conscientes de la importancia que tienen ciertas personas con talento dentro de sus empresas. Además, en este trabajo se han desarrollado unas implicaciones para la práctica que pretenden ser una guía de cómo gestionar el talento en una organización dependiendo de la visión de talento que se tenga.

This book provides a set of principles for fostering innovation in people (workers and consumers), in firms and in government, taking an in-depth look at the scope of innovation and how it is changing, as well as where and how it is occurring.

Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

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