Retire Retirement:Career Straegies for the Boomer Generation

Tamara Erickson has been a colleague and friend for over 20 years! Among her outstanding qualities is her ability to identify future human capital issues and write succinctly and compellingly about her views.
In 2004 Tammy and her co-authors Ken Dychwald and Robert Morrison were honored with the McKiney award for their breakthrough It Is Time To Retire [...]

Global Workforce Demographics – Part 2 of 4: Japan’s Workforce

This is Part Two of a four part blog on Global Workforce Demographics.  Here is the link to Part One
 Japan’s Workforce Demographics
Japan is a country with 66 million workers, yet 1 in 4 is 55 and older.  In the US that figure is 1 in 6.  Out of the 13 countries studied, Japan has the [...]

Global Workforce Demographics – Part 1 of 4

Over 75% of the world’s goods and services are produced by a handful of countries.  With all the chatter around demographic trends and the talent crisis, I thought it would be interesting to examine age demographics for these countries and determine risks to our global economy.
  Analysis Scope
The World Bank lists 14 countries producing over 75% of the [...]

Avoid Boiling the Ocean Developing a Workforce Plan

The tragic truth is most organizations definition of workforce planning is a modest prediction of how many new people will be needed after attrition.  Those that aspire to more elegance develop these terrificly complicated plans complete with graphs, summaries, dire predictions of calamity, unintentionally creating  confusion….what BSG Concours calls boiling the ocean. 
Our suggestion to Avoid Boiling the [...]

Book Review: Understanding Statistics – A Guide for I/O Psychologist and Human Resource Professional

Workforce planning requires knowledge of many domains.  One that is frequently over looked is statistics.  I have read several books on the topic and feel that Understanding Statistics – A Guide for I/O Psychologist and Human Resource Professional by Aamodt, Surrette and Cohen is an good starting point for those needing a refresher. 

Workforce planning [...]

Demographic Trends – Energy Utilities

In this posting of demographic trends, I thought I’d examine an industry that is really being rocked – an industry that everyone cares about.  Demographic realities have created a labor shortage for Energy Utilities that can no longer be ignored. The potential risks to the industry are clear when you consider the roles effected by demographic [...]

Demographic Trends – US Workforce

Introduction
Demographic changes are having a sweeping effect across the US economy.  For a few sectors and industries, the changes are creating high-levels of age and retirement risks.  These risks will impact not only the number of workers that companies have to attract but also the efficiency and effectiveness of those workers.  
Economy Overview
As of December, 2007, [...]

Purpose Statement

This blog is a forum for discussing enterprise talent readiness in light of shifting global demographics, marginal employee engagement levels and the current “One Size Fits All” approach to human capital programs and practices.