What appears to differentiate talent management focused practitioners and organizations from organizations that use terminology such as human capital management or performance management, is their focus on the manager's role, as opposed to reliance on Human Resources, for the life cycle of an employee within an organization.

TALENT MANAGEMENT

Talent management is an organization's commitment to recruit, retain, and develop the most talented and superior employees available in the job market.

So, talent management is a useful term when it describes an organization's commitment to hire, manage and retain talented employees. It comprises all of the work processes and systems that are related to retaining and developing a superior workforce.