As organizations face a loss of people due to retirement, resignation, or disability, lead ers are paying more attention to their talent management strategies, from grooming internal successors to aggressively recruiting from their competitors. The need is most acute in technical and other “knowledge” areas, where the loss of a particular skill set demands an equally focused response.
Invaluable Knowledge clarifies the unique (and urgent) issues of attracting, developing, retaining, and transferring the knowledge of IT professionals, engi neers, accountants, analysts, and other specialists. The book’s structure follows a typical talent cycle, from identifying recruitment chal lenges, to hiring and training top talent, to building career development initiatives, and finally, to laying the groundwork for the next generation.
Invaluable Knowledge makes an indisputable case for the importance of this specific facet of talent management, and offers practical examples, repeatable processes, and a multitude of specific tips to help any organization’s talent strategists create seamless transitions and maintain critical knowledge functions indefinitely.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Advance Organizer: 50 Questions to Test Your Organization’s
Technical Talent Management
1. Introducing Technical Talent Management
2. Conceptualizing the Issues in Technical Talent
Management
3. Recruiting and Selecting Technical and Professional
Workers
4. Developing Technical and Professional Workers
5. Retaining Technical and Professional Workers
6. Managing and Engaging Technical and Professional
Workers
7. Transferring Valuable Knowledge: Theory and Models
8. Transferring Valuable Knowledge: Practical Strategies
9. Tackling Future Challenges
Appendix I: Cases in Technical and Professional Talent
Management
Appendix II: An Instrument for Measuring the Strategic
Framework for a Technical and Professional Talent
Management Program
Appendix III: An Instrument for Measuring Technical and
Professional Talent Management as Enacted on a Daily
(Tactical) Basis
Notes
Index
About the Author :
William J. Rothwell (State College, PA) is professor of Workplace Learning and Performance at Pennsylvania State University and president of Rothwell & Associates, a consultancy with more than 35 multinational clients. He is the author of Effective Succession Planning (978- 0-8144-1416-3) and The Manager’s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential (978-0-8144-1430-9).
