Promoting lateral moves and three 'smart' ways to develop careers helps MasterCard maintain high engagement in its transition to a high-performance workplace.
In the process of more than tripling the proportion of Millennials in its workforce, a global employer has found reverse mentoring bridges generational gaps and improves communication between workers of different experience levels, its head of HR says.
Businesses are mostly blind to the fact that a very small percentage of top-performing employees are responsible for a very large proportion of their overall output, according to a talent assessment expert.
Internal recruitment functions are moving to more specialised models that require skills from areas outside the traditional recruitment and HR talent pool, says a talent management expert.
Identifying the "hidden leaders" at the grassroots level of an organisation can be invaluable in garnering support for initiatives, or providing insights about what employees really think about the company, according to leadership experts.
Reporting on metrics that are interesting to HR rather than useful for the rest of the organisation is a common mistake preventing HR from growing its influence, says talent metrics specialist Dr John Chan.
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