The Importance Of Talent Management In Talent Management

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One of your subordinates, Guy from accounting, is known for telling funny stories in the office, Guy has a natural ability to capture a crowd’s attention. Do you reprimand him for wasting company time, or assign Guy to a position that uses his ability to keep a group of people enthralled? Although this is a dream situation, moments like this have been far and few between for talented people like Guy. In the workplace talent has been viewed more of as a nuisance than a commodity. That model is about to change. Companies like 3M and Google have formed a business culture around finding and using the special abilities of their employees. Talent has become the latest requirement in selection processes for HR managers looking to fill managerial …show more content…

Lawler writes: “The most important thing that HR should focus on in talent management is assessing the skills the organization needs to implement its strategy and the plan for recruiting and managing that critical talent.” He is asking his audience to believe that the strategic choices of an operation should align with recognizing, training, and using talent, to the advantage of the organization; doing this will attract more creativity, and innovation in current and future employees of the company, increasing the firm’s human capital without having to increase the payroll …show more content…

A reasonable conclusion would be to optimize productivity, the workers should not only be skilled, but also enjoy what they do. Logic, however, would tell a current business owner to look at this trend from every angle, reviewing surveys, and finance reports, as well as current strategic plans and organizational goals to ensure a talent based system is right for not just the particular industry, but company, and position. While this system has been paying off for google and 3M, the ramifications of this system haphazardly implemented or one that does not match the firm’s corporate strategy could be disastrous, therefore installing a talent based selection process would require either ground floor implementation, or an entire restructure of the organization in order to attain symmetry with the strategic plan of the

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