Saturday, June 12, 2010

Not measuring up


Companies that show a real commitment to implementing and measuring talent management initiatives tend to perform better in terms of revenue growth, market share and customer satisfaction than those that don't.

According to a study by the Seattle-based Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the effective measurement of human capital initiatives is a hallmark of top-performing organisations. In fact they are more than twice as likely to emphasize the measurement of talent management (37 per cent) than low-performing organisations (16 per cent).

But despite all the evidence for their effectiveness, i4cp found that only a quarter of the companies they surveyed have such systematic talent management practices in place.

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