Fighting the War for Talent is Hazardous to Your Organization's Health

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Still Fighting the “War for Talent”? Bridging the Science Versus Practice Gap (2011, background): “Pfeffer (2001) contends that an overly strong individual focus could bring destructive internal competition that underplays the importance of teamworking.”
Behavioral management and task performance in organizations: Conceptual background, meta-analysis, and test of alternative models. (2003, background): “However, although this message seems clear, as Pfeffer (1995,1998) suggests, the real challenge is in finding specific, empirically supported ways to motivate employees for improved performance (see also Ambrose & Kulik, 1999; Luthans & Stajkovic, 1999; Pfeffer, 2001).”
The New Era Workplace Relationships: Is Social Exchange Theory Still Relevant? (2018, background): “Many modern organizations find themselves competing for talents (Chen, 2011; Pfeffer, 2001).”
Structural Microfoundations of Innovation (2014, background): “Possible explanations for this result include the idea that the existence and pursuit of stars can glorify outsiders and demotivate insiders (Pfeffer, 2001) or the idea that stars are so much sought out by others that they experience information overload and decreasing performance (Oldroyd &…”