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Freelancers possess a tremendous amount of knowledge, skill, and ability. Identifying, defining, and implementing talent management strategies aimed at ensuring the effective management of non-traditional knowledge employees in an organization are the key themes of this book.

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Managing Talent of Non-traditional Knowledge Workers - Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends Talent Management In The New Economy: Applying Lessons Learned from Knowledge Workers The Move from Employment to Associate Contracting within the Employment Relationship Are They One of Us? Why Retention Strategies Should Ensure that Contingent Employees Identify with the Organization The Effects of Organizational Culture on Contingent Knowledge Workers The Customer Employee Relationship Revisited: A New Perspective for Human Capital Management? Managing the Talent of Independent Contractors in Australia Can Short Term International Assignments Solve an Organization´s Talent Shortages? Balancing Customer, Professional and Organizational Interests: Foci of Commitment of Employed vs. Self-Employed Finance Professionals Executive Coaches in Organizations: Insiders from Outside

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ROSALIND BERGEMANN Globalite Management Services, UK OZGUR EKMEKCI Ed.D. The George Washington University GUY ELLIS Henley Business School University of Reading England, UK DR. LIEN ELS Middlesex University Dubai, UAE REGINA-VIOLA FREY Heilbronn Business School, Germany ELFI FURTMUELLER University of Twente, the Netherlands RHONDA JONES University of Maryland University College KONSTANTIN KOROTOV European School of Management and Technology, Germany TUI MCKEOWN Monas University, Australia DENISE TSANG Henley Business School University of Reading England, UK CELESTE P.M. WILDEROM University of Twente, the Netherlands.

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