{"id":790,"date":"2007-10-02T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2007-10-02T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T09:01:25","slug":"does-talent-management-create-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Does Talent Management Create Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com<\/a> that HR shape a company\u2019s culture by finding and developing talent.\u00a0 I\u2019m having a hard time buying into that.\u00a0 My answer to the question \u201cdoes talent management create culture?\u201d is simply: \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reality, creating a high-performing company depends on finding and hiring the right people, then nurturing, developing and rewarding those people to deliver \u201cgreat things.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the role of human resources departments: managing human capital in such a way as to create a healthy company culture that delivers high performance.<\/p>\n

Every company has a culture, whether it is positive, negative or somewhere in between. Within this environment, there is a cultural steward: the company\u2019s HR department.<\/p>\n

The role of stewardship is a complex one. A steward can serve as an advocate and an assistant, as a guide and mentor \u2014 someone who often has to deliver the truth, even when it\u2019s difficult to hear.<\/p>\n

Within this context, the best HR professionals are people who shape a company\u2019s culture by balancing creativity, especially in finding and developing talent and discipline.\u00a0\u00a0 ((Lawrence, Ron, July 2007.\u00a0 “Human Resources: Culture Stewards in High-Performing Companies.”\u00a0 CLO Media.com.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As \u201cculture stewards\u201d, Lawrences 5 key tasks for HR professionals are:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Attract and identify talent.
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assimilate talent into the workforce.
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop and assess talent.
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop rewards and incentives to increase retention.
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Implement an effective exit strategy.\u00a0 ((Ibid))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I won\u2019t deny a link between great people and innovative, exciting places to be, I have a very hard time making the jump to company culture.\u00a0 Certainly great people will help with employee engagement and perhaps an improvement on the employment brand, but these are very indirect effects of the talent management process.\u00a0 Making the next leap from engagement, brand and culture is another long one \u2013 yes they are related, but the former do not necessarily create the latter.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say we want to create a culture of teamwork.\u00a0 It would seem to me that creating effective teams does not happen by recruiting and developing talent.\u00a0 Having the right talent is an essential ingredient, but you\u2019d really want to start with line managers and project managers with a great deal of communications and change management activities.\u00a0 Having a framework and governance structures around how teams work together in your organization that is both unique to your organization as well as allows talent to easily participate are the true ingredients.<\/p>\n

I could probably go on and on about the real strategies to create specific types of cultures, but I think you get the idea.\u00a0 Talent is always an ingredient.\u00a0 No positive cultural changes ever happen without the right mix of people, and certainly talent is a feeder of any culture strategy.\u00a0 But let\u2019s face the facts.\u00a0 Culture is not created by talent management processes, and we should not go around thinking that broad HR strategy is solved by talent management.\u00a0 Talent management is simply a single distinct strategy within HR\u2019s broader role in which engagement, service delivery, and culture are all additional distinct components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Lawrence writes in CLOmedia.com that HR shape a company\u2019s culture by finding and developing talent.\u00a0 I\u2019m having a hard time buying into that.\u00a0 My answer to the question \u201cdoes talent management create culture?\u201d is simply: \u201cno.\u201d In reality, creating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-branding","category-change-management","category-strategies","category-talent-acquisition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}