References: Talent Management and Placement

1. Talent Management - Wikipedia - Overview of talent management practices including acquisition, development, retention, and succession planning. Provides context for how graph analytics enhances traditional talent management with network-aware insights.

2. Mentorship - Wikipedia - Covers mentoring models, relationship dynamics, and organizational mentoring program design. Background for the graph-based mentor matching algorithms that use network similarity and complementarity.

3. Succession Planning - Wikipedia - Strategies for identifying and developing future leaders to fill key positions. Graph analytics adds network centrality, knowledge flow, and relationship continuity dimensions to traditional succession criteria.

4. The Hidden Power of Social Networks - Rob Cross and Andrew Parker - Harvard Business Review Press (2004) - Chapters on network-informed interventions cover accelerated onboarding (building new-hire networks), post-merger integration (connecting legacy teams), and strategic talent placement based on network position.

5. Who Shall Survive? Foundations of Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociodrama - Jacob L. Moreno - Beacon House (1934, revised 1953) - Moreno's sociometric methods for measuring interpersonal attraction and group formation are the historical foundation for the similarity-based matching algorithms used in mentoring and placement.

6. Skills Management - Wikipedia - Systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and developing workforce skills. Provides framework for the skill gap analysis that combines HR skill inventories with graph-derived demonstrated competency signals.

7. Onboarding - Wikipedia - Employee integration processes and their impact on early productivity and retention. Graph analytics measures onboarding success by tracking new-hire network growth, connection diversity, and time-to-integration.

8. Mergers and Acquisitions - Wikipedia - Covers M&A processes including post-merger integration challenges. Organizational graph analytics monitors whether legacy teams are actually collaborating or merely coexisting after integration.

9. Career Development - Wikipedia - Theories and practices of career progression and professional growth. Graph analysis of successful career paths reveals which network-building patterns and role transitions lead to advancement.

10. Competency-Based Management - Wikipedia - Framework for defining, assessing, and developing role-specific competencies. Relevant to the placement optimization models that match demonstrated graph-derived competencies to role requirements.