Call for paper: The Use of Social Media in Talent Acquisition and Talent Management

The Use of Social Media in Talent Acquisition and Talent Management

This issue will examine how organizations utilize social media, both in the talent acquisition process (e.g., sourcing, recruiting, hiring) and in the talent management process (e.g., appraisals, training, monitoring). McFarland and Ployhart (2015) outlined a research agenda for examining social media in various HR functions. Since then, a body of research examining social media in recruitment and selection has accumulated, but the use of social media in other HR functions (e.g., onboarding, training, development, teamwork) has seen less research attention.

This issue seeks to further our understanding of social media’s place in today’s workforce. This issue seeks to build knowledge on social media use in a variety of HR functions, incorporate different social media characteristics (e.g., video/picture/text, short-term vs. long-term, processional vs. personal), and examine various workplace trends (e.g., virtual work, artificial intelligence, technology-mediated communication) to better tease out how social media content is being used in organizations, along with its effectiveness in various contexts.

McFarland, L. A., & Ployhart, R. E. (2015). Social media: A contextual framework to guide research and practice. Journal of applied psychology, 100(6), 1653.

List of topic areas

Understanding various social media characteristics that may impact the effectiveness in different organizational settings (e.g., content focus [professional vs. personal], permanency of information [short-term vs. long-term], media richness [words, pictures, videos]).

Understanding how the changing nature of work (e.g., remote work, technology-mediated communication) may impact the usefulness of social media in organizations.

Seeking to synthesize literature on social media already available to identify gaps for future research.

Inviting contributions that examine social media use in HR functions that have been previously absent (e.g., training, socialization, teamwork).

Examining how artificial intelligence may be used to assess/monitor social media content of applicants and employees.

Submissions Information

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Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

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