Abstract
Organizations of all kinds are witnessing dramatic changes in business environment. Technology-related changes as well as growing competitive pressure makes it necessary to manage well knowledge. Knowledge management (KM) needs to be applied to all organization's functions. Among these functions, talent management (TM) represents a critical area that has to be continually improved in such environment. In this sense, KM can help doing it, especially from the angle of KM processes. These processes are critical to KM implementation, and therefore help better use of knowledge to attain competitive advantage. They include knowledge acquisition, knowledge exploitation, knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation, and knowledge internalization. A thorough literature review on talent management shows that approaching it from KM perspective can open up new horizons in both KM and TM fields. Furthermore, literature review shows that when a KM perspective is used in human resources management (HRM) field, it was done with regard to a specific HR function (e.g. human resource planning or staffing, or training and coaching, or performance management, or organizational learning and development). Despite the insightful results provided by these works, they lack a robust knowledge management framework, and therefore scholars are recently calling for more investigations. Based on this background, the aim of this paper is to review and synthesize available research into a conceptual framework that explains talent management from KM theory, and specifically from knowledge management processes. By achieving this aim, this research will contribute to existing literature on KM and TM. First, from KM perspective, a fresh update on KM processes will be presented, and therefore, a step forward towards KM implementation in organizations. Second, a framework using the mentioned processes is presented, which opens the path up for thinking about its application in TM as well as other fields. From TM perspective, TM main activities are seen from KM processes perspective, which can foster more thoughts on how to improve TM in organizations.