Technological opportunities for talent management in study competitions
Előadó: Dr. Köpeczi-Bócz Tamás
Szerző bemutatkozása:
As a researcher, Tamás deals with the social effects of human resource development that is centered on employment policy. For over 20 years he has been studying: - the links between the effectiveness of education systems and the well-being of local society; - changes in the role of the human factor in strategic decisions of companies; - improving the effectiveness of public policies affecting human development.
Előadás absztrakt:
Over the last 5 years, we have been continuously developing a learning system that aims to improve students' cognitive skills. We assumed that these tasks could be organized into appropriate mixes to organize study competitions. The first attempt was made in March - April 2019 and more than 5,000 interactions were realized.
Our first analysis points out that new types of study competitions (championships) are suitable for developing students' skills in line with the new type of talent concept, so they can also contribute to the implantation of the educational concept of education in school.In 1984,
Renzulli created the three-cycle theory where creativity, commitment to the task, and above average ability, are all set as the main pillars for the concept of talent. However, it took a while for this concept of talent to find its way into the labor market. It was only by 1997, that the term "talent management" became more widely recognized, soon after Steven Hankin of McKinsey had formulated the concept of "war for talent", and later explained in detail by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod in their book by the same name. Organizations have recognized that more effective talent management practices should focus on anticipating and managing human resources, by coordinating business and strategic goals in order to prepare for growth and expansion within an organization (Martin, 2015). However, organizations did not know how to define the concept of talent, yet. Some of these concepts were conceived by Aldous Huxley in his famous novel, as the alphas of a “Brave New World" (the top of a bell-graph), “while others interpreted it as synonyms for the entire workforce, which was a meaningless definition” (Woolridge, 2006).
Among the more complex model makers, Ulrich (1998) had an outstanding concept in which, similar to Renzulli`s, he strived to narrow down to three basic concepts of intellectual capital, commitment to task, and overall involvement.
By analyzing the 5000 competing championship rounds, we were able to model relationships between these three concepts. A particularly interesting result was the study of the effect of knowledge - commitment on even, effectiveness. According to our findings, an ICT-based flexible study competition triggers an impact mechanism that can significantly change the broader areas of educational science.
