Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World's Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent

THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE

For most of the company’s history, the right talent was easily and readily available to help drive the business. However, a number of factors emerged over the past two decades that have impacted how Whirlpool Corporation attracts, engages, and develops talent to ensure it has the level of leadership to succeed in a constantly changing global business environment.

• The growth, size, and scale of the business added a level of complexity that required different skill sets and capabilities to compete in the global marketplace. Those skill sets and capabilities either had to be developed internally or acquired through new hires externally.

• Along with the change in the size and scale of the business, the external consumer ...