Talent Transformation For Leadership Roles: Emotional Intelligence As Moderator

Abstract

Talent management proven as a powerful tool in human resource management that aids employees to develop their leadership skills in the organisation. Talent management practices include attracting, developing and retaining talent has ensured the employees are being acknowledged and appreciated based on their knowledge, effort and skills. These talent management practices of talents are preparing them for the leadership roles with highly skills in managerial and technical. Further, this research is intended to introduce the element of emotional intelligence in the talent management practices that aids the balance of leader’s development in mentally and physically. Prior research shown that these two elements; emotional intelligence and talent management are often researched separately in developing leadership talent that brings the gap of this research. Therefore, as conceptual paper, these variables will be tested quantitatively and qualitatively by emphasizing simple random sampling in the determining the sample. This research will be conducted in automotive industries in Malaysia. In future, the framework developed in this paper will be used as foundation in planning and developing talent in the organization either for private or government sector.