What's wrong with talent management in Asia?

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The view from both HR and non-HR managers across parts of Asia is clear, in a report by Roffey Park and Profile Search & Selection  – talent management is not working as it should.

With continuing recruitment and retention challenges facing the region, more mature organisations have moved from the ‘technical’ phase of HR, to now ask questions such as ‘what is talent?’ and ‘what is the view of our business leaders?’ However, that isn't the case with a majority of them.

In Singapore, across 165 HR professionals surveyed, more than half believe that HR is 'weak' at the use of analytics (57%), and at succession planning (60%) - a perception shared by 57% and 64% of non-HR professionals respectively.

One of the reasons for these worrying perceptions is the view around performance management systems being unable to motivate employees - as expressed by more than one-third of HR managers in Singapore (36%) and Hong Kong (41%). The main issues are depicted in the diagram below:

Lead image / Stock Unlimited Other graphics / Working in Asia report