| Deloitte survey finds looming talent crisis threatens companies |
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| | Impending Baby Boomer
retirements, a widening
skills gap driven by
declining educational
standards, and outdated
and ineffective
approaches to talent
management are combining
forces to produce a
"perfect storm" that
threatens the global
business economy,
according to new
research conducted by
the Human Capital
practice of Deloitte
Consulting and Deloitte
Research.
In a recent U.S.
survey of human
resources executives
nationwide conducted by | |
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| | three years -- will
leave behind companies
that do not begin to
rethink and redesign
their approach to
managing human capital,"
said Ainar Aijala,
Vice-Chairman, Deloitte
Consulting and global
service area leader of
Deloitte Consulting's
Human Capital practice.
A copy of "It's 2008:
Do you Know Where Your
Talent Is? Why
Acquisition and
Retention Strategies
Don't Work" can be found
on Deloitte's Web site
at
http://www.deloitte.com/
us/talentpov.
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| | Deloitte Consulting,
more than 70 percent of
the 123 respondents say
incoming workers with
inadequate skills pose
the greatest threat to
business performance
over the next three
years, followed by Baby
Boomer retirement (61
percent), and the
inability to retain key
talent (55 percent).
"The confluence of
demographic and social
trends - the full force
of which will begin to
be felt in as little as | |
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