Moving Beyond the War for Talents. Addressing the challenge of Human Capital Integration

Deploying talents is a complex task for virtually any organization. We suggest, however, that such an activity can be effectively carried out if HR managers pay attention to a quite overlooked organizational process, human capital integration. Indeed, human capital literature has empirically demonstrated that even star (i.e., highly talented) employees suffer from non-adequate performance upon joining their new organization, thus, it seems relevant to address this dark side in the process of acquisition of talented human capital. To do so, we advance a human capital profile approach and propose a comprehensive framework for coping with human capital integration.