INTRODUCTION Talent management is a powerful tool used as a guide to identifying the employee lifecycle with ease by providing the insight and instruments necessary to make effective changes to the staff of an organization and promote personal development and loyalty within an organization (Adamsen, 2016; Trost, 2014). Wide varieties of opinions on both the definition and the activities associated are present with the term Talent Management. Armstrong (2008, p. 168) defined it as “Talent management is basically about the identification and development of potential. It can be defined more elaborately as the process of identifying, developing, recruiting, retaining and deploying talented people. The term talent management may refer simply to management succession planning and management development activities, although this notion does not really add anything to these familiar processes except a new, although admittedly quite evocative, name”. According to Cappelli (2008, p. 1), tal...