HRM differentiation benefiting talent management?

Despite investing more HR resources and practices into senior and high potential employees, organisations are not seeing the benefits, new research suggests.

                 According to a joint report by Speechly Bircham and King’s College London, employers investing in talented individuals did not reap any benefits through overall levels of staff turnover, absence or organisational performance.The report suggests that these findings “could be related to recent critical thinking that talent management focuses too heavily on the individual – rather than the management of, say, key roles or teams within an organisation.”The group most likely to receive the greatest attention is ‘poor performers’ (47%). They are reported by almost half of organisations as receiving more HR resources than any of the other employee groups.The report claims that this reflects performance management systems in managing under performing staff ‘up’ or ‘out’.Non-permanent workers were the group most likely (29%) to receive less HR resources and practices.

               The report warns that for those organisations relying on temporary staff, a lack of HR management may create additional risks and cost with respect to the employees.