2015 HR Survey Results Are In

In case you haven’t reviewed the Harvey Nash HR Survey 2015 as yet, there are a number of highly interesting facts contained in this year’s survey that you should take note of.

 

38% of HR professionals reported that their organization did not have any strategy in place for formal talent management including employee engagement, development and succession planning.

HR professionals stated that they are less satisfied today with the progress being made by diversity issues than one year ago. This sentiment is further reflected by the 7% drop in diversity satisfaction on an overall organizational basis. Nearly half of all organizations (48%) were not happy with the lack of progress with the diversity efforts of their organizations. Which raised the question… Has diversity progress stalled?

Job satisfaction on the part of HR professionals continued to fall over the past year. A significant drop of 5% meant that less than one third (32%) of all HR professionals were “satisfied” in their HR role. Conversely, this translates into 68% of all HR professionals being “less than satisfied” with their professional career role.

The concern over an 11% leap in ageing workers placed this issue second on the list of Labor Market Challenges for the year.

Skills shortages dropped 8% over the past 12 months which also placed it high on the list of Labor Market Challenges for the year.

Talent scarcity has become a greater challenge within the past year which has resulted in placing greater importance on employee engagement, as well as organizational culture and values.

44% of HR professionals are expected to change jobs within the next 24 months.

The “Top 3 Priorities” of Boards for 2015 are:

 

            #1 Priority         Develop leadership capability.

            #2 Priority         Improve talent management.

            #3 Priority         Grow employee engagement.

The “Top 3 Issues” of major concern are:

            #1 Issue            Ageing workforce.

            #2 Issue            Demand for flexible working.

            #3 Issue            Employee education not meeting skill needs.

As you can readily see, the vast majority of the expressed concerns center around two key organizational issues… Leadership Development and Diversity Training (in particular Generational Diversity).

In our role as a Premier Training and Development organization, our two signature development programs are “The Leadership Academy” and our Generational Diversity Program “Leadership For The Ages”.

I invite you to learn why our municipal and corporate clients along with their participants rate our programs so highly in comparison to all other professional training they have previously received.

As a valued resource partner, we can readily assist your organization and its people to… Learn more… Do more… Become more.