Comments on: What Is the New HR?

By: Conference Recap: 2009 ERE Expo — hr bartender

Conference Recap: 2009 ERE Expo — hr bartender — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:57:07 +0000

[...] by hr bartender on September 13, 2009 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet BoxThis week, I had the pleasure of attending ERE Fall Expo 2009. This conference focuses on recruiting and talent management. And who among us isn’t involved in some aspect of talent management? [...]

By: HR Good_Witch

HR Good_Witch — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:45:11 +0000

Wow – HR folk sure spend an awful lot of energy trying to legitimize what we do – don’t you think? Frankly, makes my skin crawl. What – if we have a new label, we will be more relevant, more important, more effective? If ever there was a profession with a perpetual inferiority complex, it is ours.

“Human Resources” is just fine, thank you very much. What’s to gain by moving to a new buzz word? It will just confuse people and we aren’t fooling anyone. Of course practices evolve in HR… they do in everyfield. We just aren’t that special.

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By: hr bartender

hr bartender — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:59:18 +0000

I’ve always struggled with the definition of talent. As James mentions, many people define it as the top 10%…but doesn’t every employee have talent? Even if someone isn’t a star performer at Company X, that doesn’t mean they don’t have talent and wouldn’t be a star at Company Y.

Thanks to everyone for the terrific comments to this post!

By: James Irvine

James Irvine — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:54:38 +0000

I always understood talent management to mean focusing on those few ’special’ people in the top ten percent of employees who presumably had ‘talent’. Is this true. And does that mean the rest of us don’t have ‘talent’?
James Irvine, Team Egyii, Singapore

By: TomSchulte

TomSchulte — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:16:04 +0000

Very good perspective! The term HR or Human Resources is fine with me. But on the other hand, business consultants need to keep busy; so perhaps it might be time to cycle on to the next moniker-du jour. Perhaps “Talent Leadership?” No, wait a minute… saying “I just got in trouble with TL” doesn’t have the same as “Man, I have an HR issue.”

By: Wally Bock

Wally Bock — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:43:58 +0000

I confess that I really have a problem with the term “Talent Management.” I know it’s the in thing. I know that lots of people I respect, admire and usually agree with use it, some of them in the titles of their blogs.

But you don’t manage talent any more than you manage knowledge. Both come encased in people. Both are un-measureable and, therefore, unmanageable.