Friday Round-Up: Some Great Talent Management Related Stories

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends in the U.S. I wanted to share a few great blog posts I’ve read in the last week or so with everyone.

Ryan Healy at Employee Evolution has a great post on how Finding Great People Should be a Top Priority, Especially in a Bad Economy. He talks about Jim Collins’ idea of how you need GREAT people if you are going to build a great company. His post is well worth a read and make some great points about how organizations become employers of choice and that GREAT people aren’t necessarily hanging out at Monster.com.

Sarah Welsted’s post over at the ERE Blog Network Millenials: Even Less Likely to Follow the Rules shares a study from Accenture. The study looks at how millennials (in this survey ranging from ages 14-27) “make their employment decisions based on how companies accommodate how they want to use their own mobile devices and other technology.” One of the biggest study findings was that “Millennials are either unaware of their company’s IT policy or not inclined to follow them.” What’s interesting is how this impacts HR and managers in terms of recruiting, hiring and communicating internal policies, and how it impacts managers. With so many generations in the workplace, expectations need to be clearly defined – and it gives a little bit of insight into how one generation thinks about technology.

And last, but not least – take a quick read of this post from Kris Dunn over at The HR Capitalist. He discusses Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers, which looks at people who are truly outside the realm of the ordinary. He includes a portion of an interview with Gladwell from Fortune. Definitely thought provoking stuff, and very relevant for HR. I’m sure there are people in your organization that defy logic when it comes to performance, and maybe this can give you a bit of extra insight.