The article by Denise Ewerlin, “The influence of global talent management on employer attractiveness:An experimental study”, explores the links between employer branding andGTM. This involves combining ideas from HRM and marketing, to show how employerbranding may work in practice due to the “war for talent”, companies increasinglytry to market themselves as attractive employers, so talent-management programsare often emphasized. Talented individuals are scarce, and they will therefore beable to choose between attractive job offers in the future. Thus the design of talentmanagementprograms could be a decisive factor in their decisions to work for specificemployers. However, there is little research about the actual influence of GTM programson employer attractiveness. This research deficit is the starting point of thisstudy by Ewerlin. Additionally, the author investigates the influence of culture on thisrelationship, and, in particular, the dimensions of individualism and collectivism.Based on an experimental investigation in a quantitative study with a sample size of217, the author could not confirm that GTM has a direct effect on employer attractiveness.
However, the contents of GTM programs have proven relevance for employerattractiveness. In this study the contents of GTM programs interacted with cul
tural differences in the needs of talented individuals to affect the relative attractivenessof employers. These results indicate that GTM programs should account for culturaldifferences, and the author provides specific suggestions for this purpose. The studyalso addresses a research – practice gap in this field.