The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It
As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals. That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: John Boudreau | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Human Resources
John Boudreau
Is it because people are not widgets, and out of respect for their free will and humanity it’s unfair or wrong to use the same logic for workforce decisions as we use for decisions about more inanimate objectives like inventories and machines? No. In fact, it’s arguably more unfair and disrespectful to employees and job applicants to make important decisions about where to invest in … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: John Boudreau | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Trends / Analysis
Talentship: A Decision Science For HR
The onus of recruiting the best for an organization lies on the shoulders of the HR professionals. Of late, it has been noticed that organizations are not doing enough to judiciously manage the human capital. As a result, the organizations are facing a tough time, recruiting talented people, and molding the existing ones. The HR department is usually more focused on ‘how’ well the department … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: John Boudreau, Pete Ramstad | Source: Strategic HR Review | Subject: Human Resources