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From expatriation to global migration: The role of talent management practices in talent migration to Ghana

Marina Latukha (Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Joseph Soyiri (Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Mariia Shagalkina (Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Liana Rysakova (Department of International and Strategic Management, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Journal of Global Mobility

ISSN: 2049-8799

Article publication date: 28 June 2019

Issue publication date: 29 November 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the authors aim to examine the role of talent management (TM) practices in talent migration from developed countries to Ghana that may enhance country’s economic development through knowledge transfer. The paper also investigates the determinants of migration to the African countries.

Design/methodology/approach

Discussing the importance of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs), and how TM practices may contribute to global migration, the authors develop a set of propositions and build a theoretical framework showing how firms from Ghana can push SIEs to a longer stay in Ghana stimulating inward migration by implementing TM practices.

Findings

The authors claim that in the Ghanaian context expatriates may become migrants by overcoming negative perceptions about Ghana as a destination. Besides the authors argue that talent attraction and talent retention practices with governmental support, play an important role in inward migration to Ghana.

Research limitations/implications

New agenda for talent managers in Africa, namely addressing the possibilities for expatriates’ retention by developing and implementing TM practices to ensure knowledge transferring from developed countries is suggested.

Originality/value

The theoretical framework provides a useful starting point for explaining the interconnections of TM and the conversion from expatriation to the global migration phenomena by African countries that broaden the TM scope beyond individual and organizational aspects. The authors state that TM systems take on the principal role of addressing talent migration especially in the African context and are capable of converting expatriates, specifically SIEs, into migrants to solve important tasks related to knowledge attraction to developing countries.

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Acknowledgements

This paper forms part of a special section “Special Section: Low Status Expatriates”.

Citation

Latukha, M., Soyiri, J., Shagalkina, M. and Rysakova, L. (2019), "From expatriation to global migration: The role of talent management practices in talent migration to Ghana", Journal of Global Mobility, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 325-345. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-12-2018-0062

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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