New trends in HR technologies: overview of foreign studies

RANEPA, Faculty of Evaluation and Development of Managerial Human Resources, Research Laboratory of Diagnostics and Assessment of Managers, the Graduate School of Public Administration, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: nsinyagina@yandex.ru

Abstract

The main aim of this work is theoretical studies of trends in HR technologies based on foreign and Russian publications and practice. This article highlights the most obvious trends of working with talented employees supported by attitude to talented persons, the analysis of various types of attitudes to them is performed; it is mentioned that positive attitude at present is one of the most important properties demanded by employers, since quite often it adds positive properties to a working team. The data were collected, classified and generalized using theoretical analysis, content analysis, and analytical synthesis of more than 50 scientific publications by researchers and practitioners from Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and the USA. This article presents the most significant results of the study. The trends of shifting the focus from equality in the relation to employees to fairness and the importance of fitting the culture of relations into the corporate culture are characterized. Generalized typology of talented employees is presented. The reasons of talented employees for leaving the company are analyzed. The importance of evaluation of skills to communicate with people, to find compromise is described, as well as of skills required for execution of this or that activity. Necessity of long-term well-considered relations with people, who are at the top in their working area, is mentioned.