Jamal, the HR Director for a growing marketing firm, announces that the firm is planning to implement the integrated talent management approach in the future.
Which of the following actions should the employees expect the firm to perform in the future?

a. Downsizing to save costs and increase efficiency.
b. Treating the major phases of the employment life cycle as individual units and integrating them at the time of performance appraisals.
c. Connecting multiple processes such as performance management, training and development, and career management.
d. Merging with other organizations to acquire additional talent.

Based on the scenario being described it can be said that the action that should be expected to be performed would be connecting multiple processes such as performance management, training and development, and career management. This is because the Integrated Talent Management (TM) approach focuses on all of the HR processes in order to attract, onboard, develop, engage, and retain high-performing employees.