Purpose – Despite a large literature on talent management there is very little research on the comparative attitudes of employees in talent pools with those not in talent pools. This is an important omission as employee reactions should influence how effective talent programmes are and how...

The second part of a two‐part article. Outlines the monitoring by questionnaire of staff attitudes to implementation of a radically new performance review scheme (described in Part One). Provides prescriptions for organizations considering such a change.