(The Beacon Group - Feb. 25, 2008)

Nearly 90% of CEOs globally, consider people management as their top priority.

But only 60% of CEOs think their time is best spent managing people issues. That’s what the HR department is for…

And when it comes to actually handling people issues, only 40% of CEOs think that their HR department is properly equipped to do so.

This is according to a PricewaterhourseCoopers annual survey on CEOs around the world. What a strange and convoluted message.

Quotation

HR is important for my organization…

But not important enough for me to spend my time on…

Yet I’m fully aware that others in the organization cannot competently deal with this matter and that we are at the dawn of a global “war for talent”.

So what exactly are you doing about it?

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