Handbook explains how to align your company's people with the current and future needs of the organization by placing employees in positions that maximize their value. The authors identify three key steps to a human resources strategy.

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Product Description

The Talent Management Handbook explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of “high-potential people” by developing and promoting them to key positions.

The book explains:

1. A system for integrating three human resources “building blocks”: organizational competencies, performance appraisal, and forecasting employee/manager potential

2. Six human resources conditions necessary for organization excellence

3. How to link your employee assessment process to career planning and development

The Talent Management Handbook will help you design career plans that boost employee morale, as well as create and sustain excellence in your organization. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning, and developing high-value people to meet your organization’s current and future needs. And it will help you combine your organization’s diverse human resources activities into a single, cogent system.

Featuring best practices from leading companies as well as contributions from field experts who hold top positions in such leading HR consultancies as AON Consulting, The Hay Group, Hewitt Associates, Right Management Consulting. Sibson Consulting, and Towers Perrin, The Talent Management Handbook is an authoritative resource for creating and maintaining excellence in your organization through people management.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37544 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 450 pages

Book Info
Handbook explains how to align your company's people with the current and future needs of the organization by placing employees in positions that maximize their value. The authors identify three key steps to a human resources strategy.

From the Back Cover

The research has shown that, in most organizations, the infrastructure of human resources systems and processes is a jumble of unconnected, incomplete, and inconsistent methodologies. Senior executives and human resources practitioners understand the connection between organization excellence and effective people management. But most organizations, do not have a systemized approach for making this linkage--and it's hurting their business. The search for this linkage is over. The Talent Management Handbook reveals how to connect organizational excellence to people management by systematically identifying, keeping, developing and promoting the organization's best people.

Featuring the contributions of leading executives, human resources practitioners, and consultants, this book presents a comprehensive approach to talent management. You will learn the power of integrating your company's infrastructure of HR assessment, planning, and development tools into a single, cogent system. The Talent Management Handbook explains how to align your company's people with the current and future needs of the organization by placing employees in positions that maximize their value.

The authors identify three key steps to a human resources strategy that will drive your organization's success:

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Identify, select, and cultivate "Superkeepers"--the employees your organization can not afford to lose

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Locate and develop highly qualified backups for key positions, which are critical to organizational continuity

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Allocate resources to employees based on actual and/or potential contribution to organizational excellence

The book also explains how to build all your HR disciplines on the "building blocks" of organizational competencies, performance appraisal, and forecast of employee/manager potential. You'll discover how to enhance employee improvement through coaching, mentoring, constructive dialogue, and feedback from many organization levels. You'll also learn about powerful reward systems, that support different talent management strategies. The Talent Management Handbook explains how to create a talent management system that dramatically improves your organization's return on its HR investment, while increasing the overall performance and satisfaction of every member of your organization.

The Key to Organization Excellence is Managing Talent

The Talent Management Handbook explains how organizations can identify and hold onto their most valued employees, but also how to get the most out of "high-potential people" by developing them and promoting them to key positions.

The book explains:

• Three broad measures of organization excellence
• Six human resources conditions necessary for organization excellence
• A talent management system that links your employee assessment process to organizational and individual career planning and development activities

The Talent Management Handbook will help you to design career plans that will boost employee morale, as well as create and sustain excellence in your organization. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning, and developing high- value people to meet your organization's current and future needs. And it will help you combine your organization's diverse human resources activities into a single, cogent system

Featuring best practices from leading companies as well as contributions from field experts who hold top positions in such leading HR consultancies as AON Consulting, The Hay Group, Hewitt Associates, Right Management Consulting, Sibson Consulting, and Towers Perrin, The Talent Management Handbook is the most authoritative resource for creating and maintaining excellence in your organization through people management.

About the Author

Lance A. Berger is a management consultant specializing in talent management, change management and compensation. A former general partner for the largest compensation practice worldwide at The Hay Group, he co-wrote and co-edited The Compensation Handbook. The Change Management Handbook, and Deengineering The Corporation. He has been a featured speaker at the United Nations, The Conference Board, American Management Association, and the American Compensation Association.

Dorothy R. Berger is a consultant in talent management. She co-edited The Compensation Handbook, Fourth Edition, The Change Management Handbook and Deengineering The Corporation. She is the editor for in-house newsletters and publications.

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Customer Reviews

Outstanding
Covers everything you would need to know to create and/or revamp your organization's talent management system. A must-have resource for any HR professional.

It's Okay...
I was really excited to get this book because I thought it was going to walk me through the steps of creating competencies and how to put them into place. The first chapter was great. After that it sort of drags a little. Each chapter is written by a different person or group of people so it is more like an accumulation of articles rather than something that is specifically useful. The information is still good and I am looking forward to finishing the book (almost done), but it definitely has not kept my interest. There are some spelling errors in the book as well, which tend to make it seem like it is not read enough to be considered a reliable resource. It is alright, but don't have the expectation that you will have enough information to implement these systems after reading the book.

Outstanding Book

This is an outstanding book that succinctly explains a simple and practical approach to the identification, assessment and management of talent in the current, dynamic operating business environment. The book plainly gives advice on how to avoid high staff turnover, poor morale, and poor performance.

Here is a book that not only "tells it like it is," but offers visionary insights into "how it needs to be." The authors ignite the imagination, expand the possibilities, and offer practical strategies any firm can use to effectively develop, retain and utilise talent for the benefit of an organisation and enter the fluid, flexible future. Managers at all levels will cheer the sanity the authors suggest.

The book is written in an easy to follow and understand way that will help you draw career plans that enhance the morale of the workforce and generate and maintain high performance in your organization. It is full of straightforward, efficient, clear techniques for evaluating, planning, and developing top performing employees to ensure that your organization will be a success.