Misplaced Talent (PDF)

High-value talent management must be relevant to today's
workplace

Misplaced Talent takes a hard look at the cluttered field
of Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making better
people decisions in any organization. Deliberately challenging
practitioners to do more, this insightful discussion sorts through
the tools and techniques developed over the last century to examine
their true relevance to the modern workplace. You'll learn which
activities show the greatest potential to improve the lives of
employees and the organizations they work for, and identify which
of your existing practices don't really add enough value to be
worth the expenditure of time, money, and potentially lost talent.
The author asks you to make up your own mind about which approaches
work best for your own specific talent decisions, but provides the
best theory and practice available today as a foundation upon which
to formulate a more relevant strategy.

In a world of big data, the potential to understand employees
and react appropriately has never been greater. So why is Talent
Management as an industry relying on outdated theory and practices?
This book is a guide to bringing HR up to date, giving you the
tools, techniques, and perspective you need to demonstrate more
value to your organization.

* Adopt the tools and techniques most effective in today's
workplace

* Identify and discard methods that don't add value to the
organization

* Implement critical changes that can transform the HR
function

* Make better people decisions based on psychology and
research

Fundamentally, not much has changed in what constitutes good
people practice. Practitioners must demonstrate the value of Talent
Management, but the solutions implemented often fall short of the
rigor and discipline they deserve. Misplaced Talent provides
the insight you need to refocus attention and engage your
organization about the value of better people decisions.