by Joe Ungemah (Author)
High-value talent management must be relevant to today's workplace
Misplaced Talent
takes a hard look at the cluttered field of Talent Management, and
offers a clear guide to making better people decisions in any
organization. Deliberately challenging practitioners to do more, this
insightful discussion sorts through the tools and techniques developed
over the last century to examine their true relevance to the modern
workplace. You'll learn which activities show the greatest potential to
improve the lives of employees and the organizations they work for, and
identify which of your existing practices don't really add enough value
to be worth the expenditure of time, money, and potentially lost talent.
The author asks you to make up your own mind about which approaches
work best for your own specific talent decisions, but provides the best
theory and practice available today as a foundation upon which to
formulate a more relevant strategy.
In a world of big data, the
potential to understand employees and react appropriately has never been
greater. So why is Talent Management as an industry relying on outdated
theory and practices? This book is a guide to bringing HR up to date,
giving you the tools, techniques, and perspective you need to
demonstrate more value to your organization.
- Adopt the tools and techniques most effective in today's workplace
- Identify and discard methods that don't add value to the organization
- Implement critical changes that can transform the HR function
- Make better people decisions based on psychology and research
Fundamentally,
not much has changed in what constitutes good people practice.
Practitioners must demonstrate the value of Talent Management, but the
solutions implemented often fall short of the rigor and discipline they
deserve. Misplaced Talent provides the insight you need to refocus attention and engage your organization about the value of better people decisions.
