The Talent Powered Organization: Strategies for Globalization, Talent Management and High Performance / Edition 1

by Peter Cheese, Robert J Thomas, Elizabeth Craig

Overview

Every day, workforce talent is becoming harder to gain and easier to lose. A potentially lethal mix of changing workforce demographics, reduced workforce engagement and alignment, and the need for new skills are forcing organizations to look anew at their recruitment and retention strategies. Crucially, organizations that neglect to manage and grow their talent are destined to suffer a dramatic decline in business performance.

The Talent Powered Organization combines a strategic and robust analysis of the dominant issues with a practical approach to reveal the best ways for you to recruit, manage, engage and retain people in your organization. The authors, leading experts on talent management within global consultancy Accenture, draw on a rich pool of international research and analysis to reveal key trends affecting recruitment and retention. Their findings provide you with the insight you need to ensure your organization doesn't lose out in the fight to attract and retain the right people.

With the help of the information provided in this book, you will be able to:

* Place talent at the heart of your business strategy

* Make leaders and line managers accountable for engaging employees

* Build organizational capabilities in learning and skills development

* Establish diversity as a key strategic asset for success

* Enlist your entire organization in identifying and nurturing talent

Containing case studies, international research findings, and practical tools, this book provides you with an objective platform for reviewing talent in your company. It will empower you to understand the forces affecting recruitment and retention and harness them for the long term good of your organization and customers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749449902
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/27/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Peter Cheese is the Managing Director for Accenture's Human Performance practice globally. He has more han 25 years' consulting experience.

Robert J. Thomas is an Accenture partner and executive director of Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business in Boston, MA.

Elizabeth Craig is a research fellow at the Accenture Institute for High Performance in Boston, MA.

Read an Excerpt

Talent imperatives for a new economic world; A strategic approach to talent; The discovery of talent; From talent development to deployment; Engagement; Embedding and sustaining talent power; Next steps and the new imperatives; Conclusions Beyond talent management

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction from the authors; ** Chapter - 01: Talent Imperatives for a New Economic World; ** Chapter - 02: A Strategic Approach to Talent; ** Chapter - 03: The Discovery of Talent; ** Chapter - 04: From Talent Development to Deployment; ** Chapter - 05: Engagement; ** Chapter - 06: Embedding and Sustaining Talent Power; ** Chapter - 07: Next Steps and the New Imperatives

Editorial Reviews

“The Talent Powered Organization is an exceptionally articulate and example-laden contribution to understanding the new corporation and the new employee.” – Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics

“Talent is essential to competitiveness in the new economy.  The Talent Powered Organization offers powerful arguments about how to develop and use it.” – Peter Cappelli, Professor, Wharton School of Business

"Insightful, data-rich and comprehensive, The Talent Powered Organization makes a major contribution to the field -- a must read for all members of senior management and students of management." -- Fred K. Foulkes, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Boston University School of Management

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