For multinational senior executives, there are a few HR challenges constantly on their minds – attracting the most talented candidates, offering properly-designed training programs that equip new hires to implement localized strategies, and maintaining a high level of employee engagement.…
What Makes Managing Talent a Challenge in ASEAN?
This is part two of a three-part series on Talent Management in ASEAN. View part one here. ASEAN’s Market is Characterized by Scarcity ASEAN’s talent market exhibits the classic signs of an emerging market suffering from an increasing demand for…
Urgent Needs for Talent Management in ASEAN
Talent-related Challenges are on the Rise in ASEAN Numerous reports consistently highlight skill deficits as a major ASEAN concern. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) also noted that the lack of labor and talent was causing significant issues for employers in…
Manage Talent in India More Effectively: Pay More Attention to Local Nuances
Effectively managing talent in India is a challenge that has perpetually concerned executives of multinational and Indian companies; the country suffers from extremely high levels of attrition, lacks the supply of top quality talent, and has witnessed double-digit annualized wage…
Strengthen Your Leadership Bench in China
Leadership constraint has been constantly identified as a top business challenge multinationals face in China. Rapid growth over the last twenty years has created a huge imbalance in demand and supply of experienced managers and leaders. Shortage of managerial talent…
The War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Are You Engaging the 99%?
No, not the 99% occupying everything. The key consideration for executives is whether they have an engagement strategy in place not just for the 1% of their workforce they classify as “high potentials,” but also for the other 99% of…
The War for Talent in Emerging Markets
“When it comes to engaging and retaining top talent in emerging markets, multinational companies are often their own worst enemies.” An executive running Asia for a major industrials company shared this comment during Frontier Strategy Group’s Shanghai Executive Round Table…