The impact of talent management practices on employee retention: The moderator effect of leader-member exchange and role modeling

Organizations are undergoing serious difficulties to retain talent. Authors argue that Talent Management (TM) practices create beneficial outcomes for individuals and organizations. However, there is no research on the leaders’ role in the functioning of these practices. This study examines how LMX and role modeling influence the impact that TM practices have on employees’ trust in their organizations and retention. The analysis of two questionnaires (Nt1=175; Nt2=107) indicated that TM only reduced turnover intentions, via an increase in trust in the organization, when role modeling was high and not when it was low. Therefore, we can say that leaders are crucial in the TM context, and in sustaining a competitive advantage for organizations.

A qualitative approach to define the prototype of a Portuguese expatriate leader in Angola

This qualitative research analyzes the individual life experiences of Portuguese expatriate leaders who left their home country to work at organizations in Angola, a place that offers better job opportunities. Through interviews with those professionals and their followers, a prototype of a Portuguese expatriate leader in Angola has been developed. Even though Angola is a former Portuguese colony, it was at war for many years and so the economic situation and culture of the country are distant from what Portuguese workers are used too, which requires them to adapt and be open-minded to change.

Development and current use of parenteral nutrition in critical care - an opinion paper.

Critically ill patients depend on artificial nutrition for the maintenance of their metabolic functions and lean body mass, as well as for limiting underfeeding-related complications. Current guidelines recommend enteral nutrition (EN), possibly within the first 48 hours, as the best way to provide the nutrients and prevent infections. EN may be difficult to realize or may be contraindicated in some patients, such as those presenting anatomic intestinal continuity problems or splanchnic ischemia. A series of contradictory trials regarding the best route and timing for feeding have left the medical community with great uncertainty regarding the place of parenteral nutrition (PN) in critically ill patients. Many of the deleterious effects attributed to PN result from inadequate indications, or from overfeeding. The latter is due firstly to the easier delivery of nutrients by PN compared with EN increasing the risk of overfeeding, and secondly to the use of approximate energy targets, generally based on predictive equations: these equations are static and inaccurate in about 70% of patients. Such high uncertainty about requirements compromises attempts at conducting nutrition trials without indirect calorimetry support because the results cannot be trusted; indeed, both underfeeding and overfeeding are equally deleterious. An individualized therapy is required. A pragmatic approach to feeding is proposed: at first to attempt EN whenever and as early as possible, then to use indirect calorimetry if available, and to monitor delivery and response to feeding, and finally to consider the option of combining EN with PN in case of insufficient EN from day 4 onwards.

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/05/23 (N2).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/06/26 (N6).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/09/15.

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/05/28 (N3).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/07/10 (N10).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/09/04 (N13).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944 (NTABLE).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/06/30 (N7).

Sondages de l'opinion publique française / Service de sondages et statistiques ; Comité directeur Pascal Copeau, Pierre Hervé, Yvon Morandat, Max Barioux

1944/07/13 (N11).