So it seems employers 'are growing up' by looking for creative options to redeploy HR staff into other roles to avoid job cuts.
HR should take credit for shifting skills into crucial areas and hanging onto skills that will prevent having to rebuild teams from scratch later. Perhaps this is evidence that HR is becoming talented at managing its own talent within HR? But as companies struggle further in the recession, creative options to transfer staff internally may be running out.
Last week's publication of a global survey of business leaders saw talent management slip down chief executives' agendas by seven places, yet the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development insists that it is still a priority for CEOs. Perhaps, but with CEOs in survival mode, it's hardly surprising that any focus on managing talent is centred around reduced budgets.
HR should take credit for shifting skills into crucial areas and hanging onto skills that will prevent having to rebuild teams from scratch later. Perhaps this is evidence that HR is becoming talented at managing its own talent within HR? But as companies struggle further in the recession, creative options to transfer staff internally may be running out.
Last week's publication of a global survey of business leaders saw talent management slip down chief executives' agendas by seven places, yet the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development insists that it is still a priority for CEOs. Perhaps, but with CEOs in survival mode, it's hardly surprising that any focus on managing talent is centred around reduced budgets.
Is talent management really coming into its own now as organisations exploit recession opportunities to develop talent internally? Or is the term itself just a repackaged version of what's come before? Whatever your view, Michael Rendell, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, warns there is a "misalignment" between HR and CEOs on talent management.
Getting under the skin of CEOs is something many of you feel you need to do. And this week's 'View from the top' feature gives some insight into one chief exec who openly rates his HR team - but not without bugbears.
