Gestion du Talent
Talent management has become a hot topic in today’s knowledge economy as organizations come to the realization that their only real competitive advantage in the marketplace is their “talent”. Talent management is the process of attracting highly skilled workers, developing and integrating new workers, and developing and retaining current workers. These talent management activities are hardly new—companies have always sought out the best workers and tried to keep them on the payroll. But we are now in an increasingly global market characterized by virtual workplaces and staffed by an extremely diverse workforce in terms of age, race and culture. Successful organizations today understand that talent management initiatives will help them find and retain the workers who will make the difference between continuing success and failure. Organizations that use talent management strategies outperform their competitors because they find the best person for each job—and talent drives performance.
Talent management is not an easy thing to define, because it can mean different things to different organizations. The talent management strategy that an organization adopts will be determined by its needs and the issues it faces in recruiting, developing and retaining new and current employees. All organizations need to recruit, deploy, develop and retain skilled workers, but there are various approaches to talent management, and what works well in one organization may not be appropriate in another. An organization’s resource requirements and the issues that it faces in best meeting those needs will determine the type of talent management strategy that it adopts. Companies that want to go to the next level, to move from “better to best”, know that exceptional business performance is driven by superior talent. These companies also use talent management strategies to ensure a continuous supply of superior talent.
Talent management encompasses a wide range of activities, from recruitment to learning and development, compensation and assessment, and review, with the ultimate objective of finding the right people, making sure they are doing the right thing, and creating an environment which encourages them to remain with the organization. Through the strategic implementation of talent management processes, organizations can gain a deeper understanding of what their employees do. Armed with this knowledge, the organization can put in place talent management initiatives and programs to ensure that their employees are doing their job well, and will be able to continue doing it well in the future. More importantly, talent management initiatives ensure that what the employees are doing aligns with the company’s business objectives. Knowledge workers in this kind of supportive environment are more productive and more satisfied, which usually means that they’ll stick around for the long-term, which is one of the most important objectives of talent management.
Talent management permeates all aspects of high-performing organizations. It involves the integration of a complex web of connected HR processes in order to streamline the recruitment, development and retention of employees with the skills needed to meet current and future organizational requirements. Talent management is the strategy by which these companies are able to keep the talent pipeline full of the right people for the right jobs in the organization.
