BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - Organizations that maintain disparate talent
management processes, systems, and/or data put themselves at a serious
disadvantage. Aberdeen's latest research report, "
Integrated Talent Management: Improving Business
Results through Visibility and Alignment," reveals that companies that
have integrated at least two distinct talent management processes have 49%
more positions with identified successors and averaged seven times greater
year-over-year profit per full-time equivalent than organizations that have
not integrated any talent management processes.
The report released by
Aberdeen
Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS), found that leading companies
experienced a 19% year-over-year average increase in employee engagement as
compared to an average 10% decrease among Laggard organizations. Not
surprisingly, the research also found that top performing organizations are
150% more likely than Laggards to indicate that their talent management
efforts are strongly aligned with their organization's strategic business
goals.
"The key to organic organizational growth in 2010 will be the proper
alignment of the workforce with a company's near- and long-term goals, and
the integration of talent management processes, systems, and data will play
a significant role in that alignment," said Kevin Martin, Vice President
and Group Director at Aberdeen. "While our research shows the vast majority
of organizations have only achieved integration across two or more elements
of talent management, those that have are reporting superior performance
gains."
Aberdeen's research also highlights the importance of collaboration between
human resources and other functional "talent" areas (i.e. learning,
compensation, etc.) to identify and work-around workflow bottlenecks.
Additionally, it details the importance that integrating talent management
plays in an organization's ability to measure and validate critical
talent-related metrics such as quality of hire and bench strength.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: Cornerstone OnDemand, iCIMS, Plateau, Saba, Talent
Scope, and Taleo. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=6153.
Visit
Research.Aberdeen.com for
additional access to complimentary
Human Capital Research.
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past two years, Aberdeen is positioned to educate users to action: driving
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