Here are three more interesting articles on Talent Management.

Downsizing putting top talent in the market
Smaller firms get run at highly-skilled professionals

Privately held companies seeking to advance their place in the market are actively recruiting professionals at the senior and executive levels, a trend being triggered as some companies react to the soured economy by downsizing.
CIM, a privately held brand-marketing and sales-management firm, is unabashedly recruiting to bolster its top-tier of talent, to serve its clients, which include brands such as Microsoft, Kraft and Adidas, along with a contingent of Hollywood film studios. More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement13

Women CIOs Out-earn Men: Good News for Women in Management-track IT

According to the CIO Association of Canada's (CIOCAN) Salary Survey, released to members this month, women CIOs out-earn men by a small margin. Within the CIOCAN membership, average base salary (bonuses not included) for men responding to the survey was just under $155,000, while the average for women was $156,000. This fact is in stark contrast to general executive pay trends reported in a variety of business
publications in which men out-earn women by 8 to 20 percent.

What about when bonuses are included? "In fact, the spread increases,"
says Peter Grant, a board member with CIOCAN's Vancouver chapter, CIO at the
B.C. Securities Commission, and author of the report. "Including bonuses, men
average $186,000 and women average $189,000." More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement14

Productivity affected by conflict management

In the workplace, teams will inevitably face conflict at some point. How they confront it affects productivity and their own satisfaction. In our last column, we discussed how high-performing teams handle conflicts. This column examines what happens when teams run into trouble when they try to manage conflict.

Researchers Kristen Behfar at the University of California, Randall Peterson at the London Business School, Elizabeth Mannix and William Trochim at Cornell University, say there are three types of teams that get bogged down in conflict and suffer as a result. More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement15