Lack of Understanding of Key Skills

The Access HR Team | 1 Jun 2007 12:38 AM

·         Only 42 percent of companies are addressing their skills and capability needs for the next three to five years

·         Less than half of companies measure their overall human capital practices on business impact and approximately 25 percent evaluate them by return on investment

·         Less than 25 percent of companies measure their learning activities by business impact and less than 10 percent by return on investment

·         Less than 40 percent of organizations incorporate any human capital metrics into their senior leadership’s compensation plans.

Source: Closing the Generation Gap, IBM Institute for Business Value Executive Brief; The Capability Within: IBM Global Human Capital Study 2005