Download or read book Misplaced Talent written by Joe Ungemah and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-value talent management must be relevant to today'sworkplace Misplaced Talent takes a hard look at the cluttered fieldof Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making betterpeople decisions in any organization. Deliberately challengingpractitioners to do more, this insightful discussion sorts throughthe tools and techniques developed over the last century to examinetheir true relevance to the modern workplace. You'll learn whichactivities show the greatest potential to improve the lives ofemployees and the organizations they work for, and identify whichof your existing practices don't really add enough value to beworth the expenditure of time, money, and potentially lost talent.The author asks you to make up your own mind about which approacheswork best for your own specific talent decisions, but provides thebest theory and practice available today as a foundation upon whichto formulate a more relevant strategy. In a world of big data, the potential to understand employeesand react appropriately has never been greater. So why is TalentManagement as an industry relying on outdated theory and practices?This book is a guide to bringing HR up to date, giving you thetools, techniques, and perspective you need to demonstrate morevalue to your organization. Adopt the tools and techniques most effective in today'sworkplace Identify and discard methods that don't add value to theorganization Implement critical changes that can transform the HRfunction Make better people decisions based on psychology andresearch Fundamentally, not much has changed in what constitutes goodpeople practice. Practitioners must demonstrate the value of TalentManagement, but the solutions implemented often fall short of therigor and discipline they deserve. Misplaced Talent providesthe insight you need to refocus attention and engage yourorganization about the value of better people decisions.