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Talent Measurement and Analytics

Beyond Measures to the LAMP

How many times have you heard that the reason HR doesn’t get the respect it deserves is because it’s soft and doesn’t have the measures that accounting, marketing, and other areas have? It is very common for experts to assert that decisions about talent and organization would be dramatically improved if only the HR profession would develop more or better “numbers,” usually designed to provide objective evidence that HR investments pay off. This chapter applies the principles of talentship to measurement and illustrates that many popular notions about HR measurement are simply wrong, beginning with the idea that more measures equal better decisions.

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