Although a more finegrained analysis of the correspondence between research in INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychology and humancapital trends within and across decades is available from us, because of space constraints, we address only one of them for illustrative purposes. That trend is talent management (see the final item in the list of 2003–2007 trends in Table 6). To be sure, the meaning of the term “talent management” sparks intense disagreement. As a recent article in The Economist noted,