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When Christy Sinnott, Hyatt’s Talent Management Leader, first met PwC’s account and HR consulting team and began discussions about their shared passion for purpose-focused organizations, data driven decisions, and culture, none could have known that these discussions would evolve into a multi-year effort to transform Hyatt’s talent strategy. The HR transformation journey has engaged PwC professionals with subject matter experience in every aspect of HR program design and management. Activating Hyatt’s leadership development model through talent development training targeted at Hyatt's top and rising leaders was the first step. With a new set of expectations for leaders in place, Hyatt asked PwC to help design and implement a Talent Philosophy and an associated Playbook, a resource to allow leaders to move the business forward through consistent, focused, yet flexible Talent management. A current state assessment helped identify challenges and gaps; a blueprint for success helped to facilitate alignment of business and people strategies; and plans for the future state supported development of a clear and compelling Talent Philosophy. That Philosophy—a series of six commitments to its colleagues—is grounded in Hyatt’s purpose and values and designed to guide the relationship between leaders and their teams. The Playbook maps Hyatt’s People strategies to specific systems, processes and procedures to support transparent and consistent standards across the organization.

“PwC helped us understand how applying the lens of purpose could transform and focus HR structures and processes to create world-class leaders and, subsequently, to re-imagine the entire talent experience. In a global organization of our size and complexity, this has been an amazing collaboration among so many people, including our colleagues around the world.” Christy Sinnott, Senior Vice President of Talent Management, Hyatt

Re-imagine the talent experience to help Hyatt and their colleagues map a route to growth

With the Playbook underway, Hyatt’s HR leaders realized that while they had done a lot to evolve their strategy and systems around Talent, there was much more they wanted to do. They invited PwC to help them re-imagine the entire talent experience, with the goal of improving internal processes on a global scale to support strategic workforce planning and permit colleagues to pursue their own growth as the organization continues to grow. PwC teams helped Hyatt identify pain points, create diverse personas and stories to envision colleagues’ overall experience from pre-hire through promotion, and map opportunities to promote a clear understanding of, and commitment to, brand and purpose. Along the way of this extended journey, the PwC team helped support Hyatt with a multi-year colleague listening program; create a roadmap for the implementation of digital platforms to support efficient HR processes across the organization; consider strategies to advance Hyatt’s commitment to Inclusion and Diversity; and develop specific tools and methods to measure success and business outcomes.

“Inclusion is a core organizational capability at Hyatt that will continue to drive many aspects of our business, including Talent. Working with PwC to further our inclusion goals has been extremely helpful and timely.” Malaika Myers, Chief Human Resource Officer, Hyatt

Creating an ideal future-state experience

Demographics shift. The business climate changes. Guest expectations evolve. One constant for Hyatt is its culture of care which is at the heart of its business strategy. Scaling an enhanced talent experience worldwide will allow Hyatt to enable colleagues to be their best and achieve business outcomes as Hyatt continues on its growth trajectory.

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“Participating in CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, alongside PwC, has been a valuable part of Hyatt’s inclusion journey, particularly the collective effort of organizations to look at bias and to share challenges and best practices. Creating a sense of belonging and community is especially important in the hospitality industry for both our colleagues and our guests.” Tyronne Stoudemire, Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity, Hyatt

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Talent Acquisition and Talent Management Case Studies

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The allocation of financial capital has long been recognized as a critical driver of an organization’s performance. The value of managing and allocating human capital, however, is less widely known. But the results from a new McKinsey Global Survey confirm the positive effects of talent management on business outcomes. 1 The online survey was in the field from November 14, 2017, to November 28, 2017, and garnered responses from 1,820 participants representing the full range of regions, industries, company sizes, functional specialties, and tenures. To adjust for differences in response rates, the data are weighted by the contribution of each respondent’s nation to global GDP. According to respondents, organizations with effective talent-management programs 2 We define an effective talent-management program as one that, according to respondents, has “effectively” or “very effectively” improved the organization’s overall performance. have a better chance than other companies of outperforming competitors and, among publicly owned companies, are likelier to outpace their peers’ returns to shareholders.

The survey also sought to uncover the specific practices that are most predictive of successful talent-management strategy. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the effective management of human capital, the survey results reveal three common practices that have an outsize impact on the overall effectiveness of talent management as well as organizational performance: rapid allocation of talent, the HR function’s involvement in fostering a positive employee experience, and a strategically minded HR team. The survey results also point to underlying actions that organizations of all stripes can take to cultivate these practices and thereby improve their talent-management strategy and organizational performance.

Why effective talent management matters

According to the survey responses, there is a significant relationship between talent management—when done well—and organizational performance. Only 5 percent of respondents say their organizations’ talent management has been very effective at improving company performance. But those that do are much more likely to say they outperform their competitors: 99 percent of respondents reporting very effective talent management say so, compared with 56 percent of all other respondents. 3 Figures were calculated after removing the 3 percent of respondents who answered “don’t know” when asked how their organizations’ performance over the past three years compared with competitors’ performance.

What is more, the effects of successful talent management seem to be cumulative. Like an overall effective talent-management program, the abilities to attract and retain talent appear to support outperformance (Exhibit 1). Among public companies, we see a similar effect on total returns to shareholders (TRS). At companies with very effective talent management, respondents are six times more likely than those with very ineffective talent management to report higher TRS than competitors.

Three drivers of successful talent-management strategy

To support these outcomes, the results suggest three practices that most closely link with effective talent management: rapid allocation of talent, 4 We define rapid allocation of talent as the fast or very fast movement of talent among strategic projects as priorities arise and dissolve. HR’s involvement in employee experience, and a strategically minded HR team (Exhibit 2).

Respondents who say all three practices are in place—just 17 percent—are significantly more likely than their peers to rate their organizations’ overall performance, as well as TRS, as better than competitors’ (Exhibit 3). They are also 2.5 times more likely than others to rate their organizations’ overall talent-management efforts as effective.

Rapid allocation of talent

Only 39 percent of respondents say their organizations are fast or very fast at reallocating talent as strategic priorities arise and dissolve —a practice that leads to a 1.4-times-greater likelihood of outperformance. And while it is well established that companies with rapid capital allocation are likely to see higher TRS , our findings show that the same holds true for talent allocation. At public companies that quickly allocate talent, respondents are 1.5 times more likely than the slower allocators to report better TRS than competitors. 5 Respondents who say their organizations have rapid talent reallocation are 2.2 times more likely than those who say their organizations have slow or very slow talent reallocation to report better TRS than competitors, as noted in Mike Barriere, Miriam Owens, and Sarah Pobereskin, “ Linking talent to value ,” McKinsey Quarterly , April 2018. The link between rapid allocation and effective talent management is also strong: nearly two-thirds of the fast allocators say their talent-management efforts have improved overall performance, compared with just 29 percent of their slower-moving peers.

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To allocate talent more quickly, the survey results point to three specific actions that meaningfully correlate with the practice (Exhibit 4). The first of these is the effective deployment of talent based on the skills needed , which has a direct impact on the speed of allocation. Respondents are 7.4 times more likely to report rapid talent allocation when their organizations effectively assign talent to a given role based on the skills needed.

Second is executive-team involvement in talent management. Respondents who say their leaders are involved in talent management are 3.4 times more likely to report rapid talent allocation at their organizations. The frequency of leaders’ involvement also makes a difference. At organizations that quickly reallocate talent, executive teams usually review talent allocation at least once per quarter (Exhibit 5). Finally, the results suggest that organizations where employees work in small, cross-functional teams are more likely than others to allocate talent quickly.

HR’s involvement in employee experience

A second driver of effective talent management relates to employee experience—specifically, the HR function’s role in ensuring a positive experience across the employee life cycle. Only 37 percent of respondents say that their organizations’ HR functions facilitate a positive employee experience. But those who do are 1.3 times more likely than other respondents to report organizational outperformance and 2.7 times more likely to report effective talent management, though our experience suggests that the HR function’s role is just one of the critical factors that support great employee experience .

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A couple of key actions underlie the HR function’s ability to ensure better employee experiences. One is quickly assembling teams of HR experts from various parts of the function to address business priorities. Just 24 percent of respondents say their organizations employ this characteristic of an agile HR operating model , and they are three times likelier than other respondents to report a positive employee experience. Second is deploying talent and skills in a way that supports the organization’s overall strategy. One-third of all respondents say their organizations’ HR business partners are effective at linking talent with strategy in this way, and those who do are over three times more likely than other respondents to say the HR team facilitates positive employee experiences.

Strategic HR teams

The third practice of effective talent management is an HR team with a comprehensive understanding of the organization’s strategy and business priorities. When respondents say their organizations have a strategy-minded HR team, they are 1.4 times more likely to report outperforming competitors and 2.5 times more likely to report the effective management of talent.

The factor that most supports this practice, according to the results, is cross-functional experience. When HR leaders have experience in other functions—including experience as line managers—they are 1.8 times more likely to have a comprehensive understanding of strategy and business priorities. Also important is close collaboration among the organization’s chief HR officer, CEO, and CFO . 6 Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey, and Ram Charan, “People before strategy: A new role for the CHRO,” Harvard Business Review , July–August 2015, pp. 62–71, hbr.org. Fewer than half of all respondents say those executives work together very closely at their organizations, 7 The question “How closely, if at all, does your organization’s chief HR officer work with your CEO and CFO?” was asked only of respondents in vice president and C-level roles. but those who do are 1.7 times likelier to report a strategy-minded HR function. The findings also point to the importance of transparency with all employees about strategy and business objectives. Respondents who say their organizations’ employees understand the overall strategy are twice as likely to say their HR team has a comprehensive understanding of the strategy.

In summary, effective talent management—and the practices that best support it—contributes to a company’s financial performance. No one approach works for every company, but the survey results confirm that rapid allocation of talent, the HR function’s involvement in fostering positive employee experience, and a strategic HR function have the greatest impact on a talent-management program’s effectiveness.

The contributors to the development and analysis of this survey include Svetlana Andrianova, a specialist in McKinsey’s Charlotte office; Dana Maor , a senior partner in the Tel Aviv office; and Bill Schaninger , a senior partner in the Philadelphia office.

They wish to thank Laura Lee, David Mendelsohn, and Trevor Young for their contributions to this work.

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Case Studies on Talent Management

This collection contains APQC’s in-depth case studies on talent management conducted at organizations identified as best practice in this area. The case studies are derived from two APQC projects: Technical Talent Management (2012) and Talent Management in a Tough Economy (2010). Case studies are listed alphabetically by organization name.

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World Vision Canada’s chief people officer, Christina Augustine, uses a data-driven, agile approach to help her people create lasting change for those who need it most.

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The Disney Aspire program is helping thousands of Disney’s hourly workers access a free college education and build a path to a permanent career.

Paving the way to a sustainable future through culture

As CHRO of Fluence, Larissa Cerqueira helps build a mission-driven culture for sustainability.

Leading by listening

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This community health organization is working to alleviate the impact of trauma-heavy professions by providing employees a “creative first aid kit” of therapeutic activities.

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Zoominfo’s senior director of global talent, John Gilleeny, excels at building programs that underscore the organization’s vision, promote growth and aid employees in their careers.

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Zoom Video Communications’ Jodi Rabinowitz, head of talent and organizational development, excels at building company culture by combining her fun personality and background in social work.

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Talent management lessons from apple… a case study of the world’s most valuable firm (part 4 of 4).

October 3, 2011

The purpose of this case study was not to say that you should copy everything Apple does, but rather to point out that with relentless execution and focus on key factors even a firm near bankruptcy can fight its way back to the top. In 13 years Apple has transformed itself from an organization of the verge of collapse to the world’s most valuable firm, amassing a phenomenal innovation record in the process. While Apple’s approach wouldn’t work for every firm, there are lessons to be learned that can influence program design regardless of industry, firm size, or location.

In part 4 of this case study (here’s parts 1 , 2 , and 3 ) on talent management lessons, the attention is on development practices, role of management, and inspirational leadership.

Make your employees “own” their learning, training and development — because Apple frequently produces new products requiring expertise in completely different industries (i.e. computers, music devices, media sales, and telephony), its employee skill set requirements change faster than at almost any other tech firm. While there is plenty of training available, there is no formal attempt to give every employee a learning plan. Just as with career progression, employee training and learning are primarily “owned” by employees. The firm expects employees to be self-reliant. Its retail salesforce for example receives no training on how to sell, a practice that is certainly unconventional in the retail environment. The lesson is simple: providing target competencies and prescribing training can weaken employee self-reliance, an attribute problematic in a fast-changing environment. Employee ownership of development encourages employees to continuously learn in order to develop the skills that will be required for new opportunities.

Make managers undisputed kings — Apple is not a democracy. Most direction and major decisions are made by senior management. “Twenty percent time” like that found at Google doesn’t exist. While in some organizations HR is powerful when it comes to people management issues, at Apple, Steve Jobs has a well-earned reputation for deemphasizing the power of HR. Although Apple was the first firm to develop an HR 411 line, I have concluded that most of the talent management innovations at Apple emanate from outside of the HR function. There is a concerted effort to avoid having decisions made by “committees.” Putting the above factors together, it is clear that at Apple, managers are the undisputed kings. The resulting decrease in overhead function interference, coupled with the increased authority and accountability, helps to attract and retain managers that prefer control. Unfortunately, concentrating the authority has resulted in having some managers being accused of micromanagement and abusing team members.

Having a product focus drives focus, cooperation, and integration – Apple is notably famous in the business press for its “product-focused” approach (versus a functional or regional focus). Everything from strategy to budgets to organizational design and talent management functions are designed around “the product.” One of the primary goals of talent management is to ensure that the workforce is focused on the strategic elements that drive company success. That focus can be distracted with selfish or self-serving behavior that instead shifts the emphasis to the individual, a business function, a particular business unit or even a region. Although deciding to have a product focus is normally a business decision, it turns out that Apple’s strong product focus also has significant positive impacts on talent management.

This laser focus on producing a product makes it easy for everyone to prioritize and focus their efforts. A product focus is so powerful because it’s easy for employees to understand that final products can never be produced without everyone being on the same page. A product focus increases coordination, cooperation, and integration between the different functions and teams because everyone knows that you can’t produce a best-selling product without smooth handoffs and a lack of silos and roadblocks. With a singular focus on producing product, there is simply less confusion about what is important, what should be measured, what should be rewarded, and what precisely is defined as success. A product focus increases the feeling of “we’re all in this together” for a single clear purpose: the product.

Apple purposely offers only a relative handful of products, so employee focus isn’t dispersed among hundreds of products as it is at other firms. By releasing products only when it can have a major market impact, Apple essentially guarantees that every employee can brag that they contributed to an industry-dominating product that everyone is aware of. This focus on product helps to contribute to employees feeling that they are “changing the world.” This focus may also reduce the chance that employees will notice that the day-to-day work environment with its politics and the required secrecy may be less than perfect. And because Apple is no longer a small firm, with nearly 50,000 employees, a unifying and inspiring theme is required to maintain cohesion and a single sense of purpose.

Find a passionate and inspirational leader — although Steve Jobs is no longer the CEO, no analysis of Apple would be complete without mentioning his importance in the firm’s success and the design of its talent management approach. He influenced nearly every aspect of the talent management approach. Not only is he one of the highest-rated CEOs by the public (he is ranked number three on the glassdoor.com list) but as a role model, he has had a huge impact on innovation, productivity, retention, and recruiting. His value is indisputable. The day after he resigned, Apple’s stock value fell by as much as $17.7 billion. It is too early to tell whether the new CEO, Tim Cook, who is markedly less inspirational, will be able to maintain the momentum that Jobs created. He has already shifted some executives and changed the company’s philanthropy approach by instituting a matching gift program for charitable donations.

Other miscellaneous talent management issues — Apple executives are certainly in high demand at other firms that seek to be equally as innovative (for example, the head of the retail operation recently left to become CEO at JCPenney). Despite this demand, Apple certainly doesn’t have any significant turnover problems. You can, however, find plenty of negative comments about Apple on sites like glassdoor.com. Some describe Apple’s approach toward employees as a bit arrogant, and employees are certainly pushed to their limits. If you don’t “bleed six colors,” you simply won’t enjoy your experience at Apple for long. Although originally the firm emphasized employee recognition, it is not easy for those outside the firm to connect recent product successes to a single individual or team.

Apple is a team environment. Although many teams are forced to operate in isolation, that actually helps to build team cohesion. The competition between the different development teams is also intense, but that also helps to further strengthen cohesion. Like most engineering organizations, its decision-making model is certainly focused on data. Apple management likes to control all aspects of its products, but despite that, it is one of the best at using outsourcing to cover areas like manufacturing, which it has determined is not a core corporate competency.

Final Thoughts

Although Apple clearly produces extraordinary results, its approach to talent management is totally different than that of Google and Facebook, which also produce industry-dominating results. As Apple has grown larger, its rigor around sustainable innovation has grown as well, a feat that proves impossible for most organizations including the likes of HP, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

The three “big picture” learnings I hope you walk away from this case study with include:

These three factors are not easy to copy, but they are certainly worth emulating. If you can bring them and the results that they produce to your firm, there is no doubt that you will be a hero.

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Food service management, human resource management, hospitality strategic management and, international business and management.

Case overview

The purpose of this case study is to determine whether the practice of talent management serves to motivate fast food service employees. It aims to determine employees’ perceived level of awareness and importance of talent management practices; current practice of talent management within the fast food service sector; and to assess the level of motivation of employees from talent management practices. The survey method employing the use of questionnaires was used to ascertain data from a fast food service establishment in Jamaica, a developing island destination located in the Caribbean region (Sinclair-Maragh and Gursoy, 2015). Jamaica is chosen for the study, as there has been an increase in the number of both local and international fast food entities over the years (Collinder, 2014). The focus on fast food service is important, as they have been providing employment to a significant sector of the population. This type of business operation is classified as a tourism related hospitality area (Purcell, 1996) and as indicated by Christensen and Rog (2008), talent management presents an intriguing opportunity for hospitality organizations to attract employees with requisite skills and experience. The industry is also challenged in maintaining motivated employees (Baum, 2008). Talent management can assist organizations that have long-struggled with high turnover rates and the ability to attract and engage employees that are considered assets and not liabilities. Lockwood (2007) points out that engaged employees are loyal, hardworking and passionate about their work. Motivation theory is used to provide theoretical support for the findings of the study. This is because behavioral theorists such as Abraham Maslow suggested that survival, safety, belonging and self-esteem are factors that can be used to motivate employees and Sigmund Freud believes that people need to be rewarded to get work done (Nohria et al. , 2008). This theory is plausible to the study, as it is postulated that talent management can enhance employee engagement, through highly motivated employees (Christensen and Rog, 2008). The study finds that majority of the employees understood the meaning of the term “talent management”. In terms of their personal and professional development, the employees believe that these are highly influenced by the organization’s culture. They pointed out that skills are usually developed through training, cross-training and succession planning. Financial assistance is given for further training and skill development. The performance evaluation process is used to identify employees’ specific skill. Although this is done, the majority has not been placed in other departments that would benefit more from their skills. Only 7.6 per cent reported that this was ever done. Employees’ emotional wellbeing is also important. Although majority of the employees (44.7 per cent) are happy about their work, they indicated that they could be motivated by coaching, mentorship and empowerment initiatives. Overall, the employees’ sense of belonging through their engagement and development, and self-esteem through their morale and competence are important to their motivation levels. They are also motivated when support is provided for training and skill development as explained by the motivation theory.

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The learning outcomes are intended to guide the teaching-learning process and stimulate students’ understanding of the concepts of talent management specific to fast food service employees’ motivation. The case study is a useful resource for graduate students to enable and develop their critical thinking and solution-oriented skills. Students should be able to critically analyze the case and respond to the questions to garner and improve their understanding of talent management and its applicability in the fast food service sector. Further understanding of the concept can be derived from developing dimensions and measures of talent management that can be generalized to the food service sector.

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Workforce planning
Enterprise resource planning
Employee commitment/motivation
Employee participation/engagement
Labour market/skills shortages
Resource-based view/core competencies

Sinclair-Maragh, G. , Jacobs-Gray, N. and Brown-Roomes, N. (2017), "A case of talent management practices in motivating fast food service employees", , Vol. 7 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-07-2016-0153

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Case studies exploring fascinating additional case studies from the author demonstrating HRM in practice around the world. From the internal vs. external candidate debate to employer branding abroad, learn how companies of all sizes approach different aspects of HRM.

Recruitment, Retention and the Management of Graduate Careers

For many large employers, the cost of recruiting graduates onto graduate training programmes represents a significant investment in human capital. These costs include the cost of the graduate ‘search’, promotional material to encourage applications among the best graduates and the cost of the rigorous and extensive selection process. This is not to mention the relatively large salaries and considerable benefits offered as an enticement to choose an employer over their competitors. In addition to the recruitment costs, the cost of the training programmes offered by many graduate employers can be considerable.

A large business consultancy – Walker, Bird and Black (WBB) – recruits a cohort of between 40 and 50 graduates each year onto its three-year graduate training programme. Among graduate job-seekers, the scheme is considered to be among the more prestigious and is known to be among the highest-paying. For this reason, competition for the scheme among graduates is fierce and WBB chooses to focus its recruitment activity on more prestigious universities. In 2008, for example, 70 per cent of its graduate intake came from just five universities. While graduate recruits often take on managerial responsibilities relatively early in their careers, the aim is to create a talent pool for more senior managerial positions and, therefore, retention of graduate recruits is paramount. To achieve this objective, the development programme is highly structured and whilst there is limited scope for recruits to specialise in particular areas of the business or in specific managerial roles, the programme seeks to develop generic managerial competencies to enable graduate recruits to fulfil a range of future positions. The programme includes personalised development programmes, mentoring, secondments (including frequent international assignments in its overseas operations and in partner or client organisations) and work shadowing. During the three years, each graduate also has the opportunity to work across different departments and operational areas of the company and to work in cross-functional project teams, often in leadership roles. The ‘programme’ graduates are treated very much as separate to other graduates working in the firm during their three years’ training.

A problem for many graduate recruiters is retention of graduates both during and following the formal programme, especially given the investment already made in recruiting and developing graduates. WBB experience a lower level of turnover of employees during the programme than the industry average, which the company puts down to the content of the programme and the range of benefits they offer their recruits. In the two years following the programme, however, WBB experiences an unacceptable level of turnover among its graduate recruits, many leaving to take up opportunities at rival employers. In exit interviews, graduate recruits leaving the firm rarely mention pay as a reason for leaving but they often complain about a lack of opportunities for further advancement and development, particularly those recruited following a restructuring of the firm to promote team-based working and to eliminate unnecessary layers of bureaucracy. Senior managers also express disappointment about the ability of those completing the programmes to act independently and effectively in more senior managerial roles and to take the initiative in decision-making and problem-solving. Subsequently, two of the rarely available senior managerial roles have recently been filled by external recruits, rather than from inside the company.

How do you account for the patterns of turnover among graduate recruits at WBB?
In what ways do you think that the approach taken to graduate recruitment and training has contributed to the problems being experienced at WBB?
graduates who might be thinking of leaving the firm;
senior managers who bemoan the lack of ‘readiness’ of graduate recruits to take on more senior roles?

Change and Career Management at Shire County Council

In 2005, the UK government launched its Local Government Pay and Workforce Strategy which sought to outline how local government should address the challenges of providing ‘community leadership and improved services within controlled budgets’ and better respond to changing customer needs and expectations. At the heart of the strategy was the following sentiment:

Local authorities need the right people, working in the right way and within the right culture. Achieving this demands nothing less than a transformation in many authorities’ working practices. Authorities can’t afford to take a piecemeal approach to workforce issues, responding to problems as they arise in an ad hoc way. They need to look ahead, analyse the key workforce issues, anticipate problems and take a strategic approach to develop the workforce needed to achieve their corporate objectives.

This strategy was pursued by Shire County Council in its efforts to respond to central government policy, including the need for ongoing efficiency savings, and reduced budgets. Following the strategy, Shire County Council set out five central elements of its change process:

Developing the organisation through the redesign of processes to generate continuous improvement and flexibility; workforce modelling, including the redesign of jobs and outsourcing some jobs to ‘partner’ organisations; and the implementation of high performance work systems to increase productivity and flexibility in service delivery.
Developing leadership capacity through skills development at all levels with an explicit focus on internal development and increasing diversity of the ‘talent pool’.
Developing workforce skills and capacity through increasing per head ‘spend’ on training and development, particularly for frontline staff.
Resourcing, recruitment and retention through the development of a strong internal labour market and, in particular, addressing a number of areas of considerable skills shortages (for instance, social workers, occupational therapists, environmental health officers, trading standards officers, planning officers and educational psychologists).
Pay and rewards through balancing the need for attractive salary packages with providing value for money. Explicit objectives in this area include ensuring pay inequality, eliminating occupational segregation and formulating ‘total reward’ packages.

The implications of pursuing these objectives have been manifold. The Council’s directly employed workforce has been reduced by approximately 900, through voluntary redundancy and a substantial proportion of Shire’s activity having been outsourced to ‘partner’ organisations in the private sector (although many continue to work on council premises). In some areas of activity, such as IT, the department has been considerably rationalised with a core of essential employees being retained on permanent contracts supplemented with sub-contractors employed as and when required, often for considerable periods of time (for example, for the design and implementation of new computer systems). There have been considerable changes to working practices, including a removal of traditional job demarcations and employees increasingly working in cross-departmental project teams which are largely self-managed. These teams are, however, limited to certain sections of the organisation. Departmental structures have been ‘flattened’ with a significant number of managerial posts having been removed in favour of encouraging greater responsibility and accountability among the remaining workforce. Pay structures have also been rationalised and the council has introduced a more formal performance management system which sets each employee’s KPIs (key performance indicators) that must be achieved for progression to the next salary band. Progression through salary bars is now dependent on promotion. Historically, local government employees have benefited from relatively secure employment often associated with hierarchical progression up a narrow-banded pay structure, passing through pay bars relatively easily. Changes to the pay structure have, therefore, led to considerable disquiet among employees. These changes have also contributed to the significant loss of some senior council employees, who have complained that these changes have resulted in the intensification of work, leading to, as one employee put it, a desire to ‘get out of the rat race’.

However, three years after the change process at Shire County Council, a review by senior management has revealed that many aspects of these objectives are far from having been achieved. In particular, recruitment and retention of key staff have actually worsened since this process was begun. The areas of skills shortage identified in the change objectives remain problematic. Whilst the council has made concerted efforts to recruit adequate numbers of these skilled workers, there is significant turnover among them, with many specialists leaving to work in other parts of the public sector, particularly junior practitioners. Turnover has also worsened among frontline staff, despite greater investment in training and development among this group. Moreover, despite concerted efforts to recruit from a wider pool in order to increase workforce diversity, this appears not to have led to a significantly greater number of employees from minority groups progressing to senior positions. This has resulted in a number of highly qualified employees leaving the council for work in the private sector, often at a higher level.

Problems have been particularly acute in the HR department itself. Before the change process, the department employed four grades of HR professionals: administrators, advisors, consultants and managers (who reported to the HR director). Administrators and advisors worked in small teams, servicing the HR needs of particular parts of the council. Consultants were typically specialised in one area (for example, payroll) and often took the lead in organisational-level projects. HR managers oversaw the activities of the department as a whole. As part of the change process, the HR advisory role was outsourced to a third-party service provider, meaning that all HR advisors would become directly employed by the service provider but work exclusively on work for the council. They were relocated to a purpose-built ‘service centre’ where they would provide support to line managers across the organisation. The majority of the HR administrators were made redundant, or ‘promoted’ to the role of HR advisor, following the introduction of a self-service portal on the company’s intranet allowing line managers to perform their own HR transactions. The HR consultants and managers remained employed directly by the council forming a ‘strategic HR team’. Prior to the restructuring, all HR consultants had previously worked as HR advisors at the council. Two recent appointments to the role have, however, been of external applicants, despite three HR advisors applying for the role. In the last six months, seven HR advisors have left their jobs, including two women, after their request to work flexible hours following maternity leave was refused.

What are the problems for employee development and career management that have been created by the organisational restructuring and implementation of new policies?
What are the career management policies and practices that you would implement to assist in the achievement of the council’s strategic objectives?
What aspects of the new career dynamic might begin to emerge under the new arrangements for staff?

Building a Talent Strategy at Matsson Finance

Matsson Finance is a market-leading company providing wealth management and financial protection services, operating in more than 40 countries but with major operations across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Worldwide, it has over 50 million customers, both individuals and businesses, and approximately 95,000 employees worldwide working across three of its operating divisions: MF Life and Insurance, MF Investment and MF Healthcare.

In the UK, Matsson is involved in insurance, investment, pensions, healthcare, protection and life cover, employing approximately 8,000 staff in five locations across the country. Its website makes the claim that: ‘As the trusted provider of financial services to two million customers in the UK, we seek to employ the best people to ensure both outstanding service and excellent value’. However, whilst Matsson is typically viewed as an ‘employer of choice’, senior management has in the past two years become concerned that in certain aspects of its HRM practice, particularly employee development and talent management, the company has lost ground to its competitors.

In particular, the firm identified a significant problem in retaining its highest potential staff across its six operating sites. In order to support the firm’s aim of achieving more sustainable competitive advantage through the quality and capability of its people, the firm recognises the need to attract, develop and retain talent throughout the organisation. Subsequently, the firm has recently begun to develop and implement a more strategic approach to talent management that brings together a number of disparate policies and practices already in existence to produce a coherent approach to developing promotable talent and to ensure a pipeline to service most senior positions. To achieve this more strategic approach, Matsson has established a Talent Development Team to support the achievement of competitive advantage through the ‘creation and deployment of a continuous pipeline of exceptional business and technical leaders’.

Among the first tasks of this team and central to the firm’s talent strategy is the organisation’s ability to successfully identify both immediately promotable talent and future leaders, stressing, therefore, the importance of appropriately defining its ‘talent pools’ to recognise both realised ability and potential. To this end, the company decided to categorise talent in the company in three ways:

Talent – defined as those throughout the firm who have performance ratings of effective, excellent or outstanding and representing 90 per cent of employees at Matsson UK. These ratings are determined by line managers during annual performance appraisals based on the achievement of individual objectives and the extent to which they display the behaviours informed by the firm’s core values. The company has yet to put in place structures and practices to further develop such staff but their potential is noted and filed for future reference.
Promotable talent – those employees with the potential to progress to the next career level in the relatively near future, representing approximately 40 per cent of all employees. Individuals are assigned to this group at the request of their line managers based on three key criteria: ability, drive and engagement. The highest-flyers from this group are identified as ‘being of future leadership potential’. The company has been surprised at how relatively few staff have been put forward by their managers and take this to be a sign of an absence of such talent. As a result, the company has begun a headhunting exercise to recruit high-potential staff from outside the firm at more senior levels.
Future leaders – 1–3 per cent of employees with the potential to be a business or technical leader or technical specialist. Such candidates are simply put forward by their line manager as someone of significant potential.

Despite recognition of the importance of talent at all levels in the company, priority has been given to nurturing and developing those staff who fall within the ‘future leader’ group. Senior management have diverted significant investment to the HR department to develop a bespoke, stand-alone and intensive programme of leadership development for the ‘chosen few’ (as they have become known in the firm), including paid tuition and time off to study for an MBA at a top UK business school, regular off- site teambuilding activities and fact-finding missions to Matsson sites all over the world. This investment constitutes the major part of the fund available for talent development but senior management take the view that ‘if you get the top right, the rest will fall into place’. In other words, if the workforce sees the internal promotion of a select few staff into very senior positions then others will be motivated to pursue such opportunities.

The aim of the future leadership programme is to assess each individual against the leadership behaviours and competencies identified at the most senior level of the firm, in order to map them against future roles. Before the end of the programme, individuals have to produce a portfolio that includes what they have learned about themselves, what they have done as a result of this learning and why they should be considered for specific roles in the organisation. The information then leads into succession planning activities where individuals are earmarked for particular posts in the future and are intensively schooled in the technical aspects of those posts.

How would you characterise the approach that Matsson Finance has adopted towards its talent management?
What examples of potentially good practice can you identify in Matsson’s approach to talent management?
What are the potential pitfalls associated with the policies and practices that Matsson has currently adopted?
What are the potential problems of adopting a very structured off-the-job programme of leadership development as the means by which to develop the leadership capabilities of a more junior member of staff?

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Refereed paper submitted to the Leadership, Management and Talent Development track of the 16th International Conference on HRD, University College Cork, Ireland, 3rd-5th June 2015.

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Abstract Purpose: This paper reports the preliminary results of a study looking at how three organizations in the UK public and private sectors identify high potential employees. Specifically, the paper looks at how talent is constructed and identified and the barriers and challenges encountered with talent identification from the perspectives of both management and ‘talented’ employees. Design/methodology/approach: Three in-depth case studies involving multiple informants in the Civil Service, local government and retail were written based on 21 interviews with HR/Talent & leadership development managers as well as managers on talent schemes. Additional data was obtained from corporate documentation. Findings: All three companies had different drivers for talent management which influenced the constructions of talent used and frameworks for talent identification. The civil service and retail sectors used a categorising tool that enabled a common language for defining potential and facilitated identification practices. Despite this, definitions of potential and competency frameworks in both the retail and civil service sectors differed as well as their processes for identification. The challenges and barriers to talent identification appeared more similar than different but notably and in contrast to the public sector (the civil service and local government) which had an exclusive talent management practice, the retail sector operated a more inclusive talent strategy which was driven by a culture of openness, honesty and a rigorous talent identification framework. Research Limitations: Talent management practices were mostly in their start-up phase being two to five years old and still evolving. Inclusion of the views of employees not in the talent pools would create a broader perspective on the process of identification. This paper reports work in progress and further analysis of case data is continuing. Originality/value: This empirical study contextualises talent definition and identification practices from the perspectives of HRM specialists, line managers and high-potential employees. Since the majority of research on talent management concerns practices from the U.S. or Multi-nationals, this study adds value to the limited research on talent management outside these contexts. Keywords: Talent, talent management, talent identification

jeevan Jyoti

Talent management (TM) has received lots of attention of academics, practitioners, researchers, scholars, and competitive firms in recent years, but there are many gaps left for further theoretical and empirical development. One of gap is lack of clarity of definition of TM, and the ongoing debate about whether it is merely repackaging of already existing human resource management (HRM) practices or a new concept. In this context, this paper concludes that TM practices are distinct from the traditional HRM practices. The authors have consolidated the existing literature on TM for designing an integrated model of TM including its antecedents and consequences. The study calls future research to empirically test the derived propositions. The paper includes various theoretical, economic, managerial, and future research implications.

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Sharna Wiblen , David Grant

This paper addresses the Talent Management challenges in Public Sector of India. Initially, the paper will discuss both the public and private sectors to identify the ongoing challenges and limitations taking place currently. The paper will then address how these challenges are interconnected with the problems occurring in different states of India on a regional level. Measures of recruiter competency and organization's position in having a say on the recruitment of the individuals both directly and indirectly will be observed. The methodology used is both quantitative and qualitative as it will help in getting a better information on the hiring policies and practices in both private and public sector and thus, be able to give a better overview of the deficiencies in the public sector over private sector along with looking at the drawbacks in their policies and procedures. Finally, our research will provide a better understanding on talent retention, management and acquisition practices with the needed methods required to make the best selection of the right candidates for the right position; along with suggesting the scope of further revision of the talent acquisition practices among public sectors to meet the challenges and demands from the private sectors.

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