Talent and talent management becoming buzz word of contemporary human resource management practices; there exists ambiguities in the real meaning of the word talent in the organizational context. With the support of many talent philosophies developed the talent is seen as both objective and subjective in the modern scenario. Human resource practitioners constantly strike a balance between the exclusive and inclusive aspect of talent identification for better extrinsic benefits. This research paper aims to explore the meaning of the word talent in the organizational context with special reference to software sector. The study found that there is no common acceptance on what constitute real talent and there exists a bizarre gap in the employees and managerial perception about the word talent.
Talent pool, operationalization of talent, talent management
