Talent Management – What’s the Evidence?
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Big data, evidence-based, predictive analytics, today these terms are all over the place. Is this just another fad or an irreversible trend? An increasing group of HR leaders relies on science, critical thinking and data analyses to make decisions.
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Big data, evidence-based, predictive analytics, today these terms are all over the place. Is this just another fad or an irreversible trend? An increasing group of HR leaders relies on science, critical thinking and data analyses to make decisions.
Evidence-based HR, however, is still perceived by many as too time-consuming, narrow or impractical. Meanwhile, evidence-based practice is becoming mainstream in many other disciplines (like medicine). This is the momentum for pioneering HR leaders to seize the opportunity and make a difference with evidence. As part of an inclusive approach, valuing different perspectives.
We will enter into the dialogue about the why, the what, and most of all the how of evidence-based HR. How to get started and how to blend it with softer, less tangible HR practices? A pragmatic introduction, with realistic ambitions and openness towards other approaches.
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2. 30 min Talent Management: What is it what does it do?
20 min What the problem and solution? What’s your
evidence?
20 min An alternative model: EBP
15 min Case
30 min Discussion / questions
Outline
3. Dangers of believing things that aren’t true
It ain't what you don't know that gets
you into trouble. It's what you know for
sure that just ain't so. (Mark Twain)
The greatest enemy of knowledge is
not ignorance, it is the illusion of
knowledge. (Stephen Hawking)
4. Some examples
What’s happened to average job tenure in
the UK and US over the past 10 years?
Up?
Down?
Stayed the same?
5.
6.
7. Some examples: Job satisfaction
What’s happened to job satisfaction in the
US over the past 10 years?
Up?
Down?
Stayed same?
8.
9. Some examples: VUCA
Is the world moving ever faster – more
VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity)?
Faster?
Slower?
Same?
10.
11. The idea that time is speeding up is clearly popular. It is
also plausible. There is just one problem. It is very hard to
prove that it is actually happening.
Hard evidence of a great acceleration is hard to come
by. The Economist has considered a variety of measures
by which the speed of business in America can be
quantified. A few do show some acceleration. But a lot do
not.
14. Some examples: Generational differences
Are there generational differences in work
attitudes?
Big differences?
Small differences?
No differences?
15.
16. So what?
There are many taken-for-granted assumptions
and ‘truths’ in HR that turn out to be wrong or at
least overstated
It’s important to examine these assumptions
because if they are wrong will lead to poor
decisions
Possibly also in the case of Talent Management
17. 20 min Talent Management: What is it what does it do?
20 min What the problem and solution? What’s your
evidence?
30 min An alternative model: EBP
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Outline
33. Version 1: More or less exactly the same as
strategic HRM – it’s most things HR does
Version 2: One specific thing HR does (e.g.,
succession)
Version 3: Full-on, hardcore War for Talent – it’s
talented individuals that determine
organizational success – our focus now
‘Talent Management’: 3 versions
Ariss et al. Talent management: Current theories and future research directions. Journal of
World Business, 2014, vol. 49, issue 2, pages 173-179
36. “If you pick the right people and give them the
opportunity to spread their wings and put
compensation as a carrier behind it you don't
have to manage them.”
How is it assumed
to work?
Jack Welch
(Straight from the gut)
47. H E A L T H W E A L T H C A R E E R
NOVEMBER 23 2015
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50. Some evidence-based insights …
1. Talent management is an ill-defined
construct. It lacks a precise terminology
as well as a reliable and valid approach
regarding the measurement of its
effect.
And if you can’t measure it …
51. Some evidence-based insights …
2. The idea that talent (or potential) can
be readily identified in relatively
complex jobs is plain wrong.
A senior executive may have a splendid track record but how much
of their apparent success can be attributed to their abilities?
A junior manager may score brilliantly on every appraisal thrown
at them, but how good is the evidence that those scores predict
future performance? It’s hard to define or assess talent.
52. 3. The idea that the best organisations have
the best people just doesn’t stand up to
scrutiny..
Success depends on a whole range of factors, not least having
good systems, processes and co-ordination.
Having talented individuals may help a little bit in some roles, but
other things are likely to be much more important. In other words,
we over-rate our ‘stars’
Some evidence-based insights …
53. 4. There is even evidence that selecting and
promoting people at random may work just
as well
Some evidence-based insights …
Pluchino, A., Rapisarda, A. and Garofalo, C., “The Peter Principle Revisited: A
Computational Study,”, Physica A, vol. 389, no. 3, February 2010, pp. 467-72.
Haslam, S. A, C. McGarty, R. A. Eggins, B. E. Morrison, & K. J. Reynolds,
“Inspecting the Emperor’s Clothes: Evidence that Randomly Selected Leaders
can Enhance Group Performance”, Group Dynamics: Theory, Process and
Research 2 (1998): 168-18
54. … and some critical questions
1. Why do we need to recruit the most
talented person? Isn’t a good enough
person, well, good enough?
In almost all performance domains, having more ability only makes
a difference to performance up to a point. So why spend time
recruiting or developing the most talented people?
55. … and some critical questions
2. Given the fact that ‘talent’ is hard to
measure / identify: have you considered
the consequences of false positives and
false negatives?
56. … and some critical questions
3. What might be the unintended negative
sides-effects of identifying talent on those
who are not identified as talent? All HR
practices that have any effect may also
have negative side-effect.
58. 30 min Talent Management: What is it what does it do?
20 min What the problem and solution? What’s your
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20 min An alternative model: EBP
20 min Case
30 min Discussion / questions
Outline
59. Returning to your own organization and what YOU mean
by talent management
At some point your team made a decision about some
problem that needed to be fixed and a TM solution that
would fix it
We are going to consider (discussing in pairs) your
evidence for
The problem(s) you identified which you TM
activities are aiming to fix
The solutions (your TM activities) you chose to fix
those problems
Exercise: What’s your evidence?
60. What’s the evidence for the problem(s) you identified?
(ask each other these questions)
What exactly was the problem? Be as specific and precise
as possible (probe!)
What types of evidence or information did you have about
the problem (internal data, external, professional
judgement and experience, scientific, stakeholders)
How much evidence?
How trustworthy or reliable was that evidence?
Overall how confident were you that you identified a real,
specific, important and pressing problem?
Exercise: What’s your evidence?
61. What’s the evidence for the TM solution(s) you identified
(ask each other these questions)
What exactly was the solution? Be as specific and precise as
possible (probe!)
What types of evidence or information told you that the
solution was likely to work (internal data, external,
professional judgement and experience, scientific,
stakeholders)
How much evidence?
How trustworthy or reliable was that evidence?
Overall how confident were you that you identified an
effective and relevant solution?
Exercise: What’s your evidence?
62. 30 min Talent Management: What is it what does it do?
20 min What the problem and solution? What’s your
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Outline
71. Multiple sources of evidence
problem solution
Practitioners
professional expertise
Organization
internal data
Stakeholders
values and concerns
Scientific literature
empirical studies
Ask
Acquire
Appraise
Aggregate
Apply
Assess
78. Evidence-based … whatever
=
the use of evidence from multiple
sources to increase the likelihood of a
favourable outcome
Focus on the decision making process
Think in terms of probability
80. Undermines formal authority (JFDI, HiPPO)
They feel it constrains freedom to make
managerial decisions
Speed valued and rewarded more than accuracy
Managers not necessarily rewarded for doing
what works (organizations rarely evaluate)
SEEM TO LOVE FADS & QUICK FIXES
Why don’t managers like EBMgt?
91. 1. Incompetent people benefit more from feedback than
highly competent people.
2. Task conflict improves work group performance while
relational conflict harms it.
3. Encouraging employees to participate in decision
making is more effective for improving organizational
performance than setting performance goals.
Likely or unlikely?
92. 959 (US) + 626 (Dutch) HR professionals
35 statements, based on an extensive body of evidence
true / false / uncertain
HR Professionals' beliefs about effective human resource practices: correspondence
between research and practice, (Rynes et al, 2002, Sanders et al 2008)
Likely or unlikely?
94. Relying on only 1 source: bad idea!
problem solution
Practitioners
professional expertise
Organization
internal data
Stakeholders
values and concerns
Scientific literature
empirical studies
Ask
Acquire
Appraise
Aggregate
Apply
Assess
95. Discuss with your neighbor (1 min)
Over a 5 year period,
why is an orthopedic surgeon's
experience, as a rule, more trustworthy
than an change manager’s experience?
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96. Developing expertise
1. A sufficiently regular, predictable environment
2. Numerous opportunities to practice
3. Receive accurate (objective) feedback
The management domain is not highly
favorable to expertise!
107. “I’ve been studying judgment for 45 years, and I’m no better
than when I started. I make extreme predictions. I’m over-
confident. I fall for every one of the biases.”
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115. Predictors (r & R2)
GMA & work sample test .63 40%
GMA & conscientiousness .60 36%
116. Knowledge workers
Whether nurses, lawyers, engineers, managers, or staff members,
nowadays most workers in organizations are highly dependent on
information and communication technology and are involved in
work that involves a high level of cognitive activity.
117. Discuss with your neighbour
0
“Which of the factors that are related to the productivity of
knowledge workers are most widely studied and what is
known of their effect?”
118. I Don’t Know
(but I know how to find out)
The 3 hardest words in management
133. …how employees feel the supervisor
helps them in times of need, praises
them for a job well done or recognizes
them for extra effort.
Perceived supervisory support
137. Information sharing?
…refers to how teams pool and access their
knowledge and expertise – which positively
affects decision making and team processes.
This has led to the idea of a team ‘Transactive
Memory System’ (TMS), which can be thought of
as a collective memory in a collective mind -
enabling a team to think and act together
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30 min Discussion / questions
Outline