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Talent management comes to public education
Public education has many lessons to learn from Fortune 500 companies about the
importance of talent management, according to Strategic Management of Human
Capital, a group formed this summer to transform public education's approach to
human resources.
Talent management directly impacts on student achievement, says the new organization, which recently released case studies of the human resources practices of five large urban school districts. The districts are in New York City; Chicago; Boston; Long Beach, CA; Fairfax County, VA. SMHC has also done case studies of Minneapolis, Minnesota's "Q-Comp" program, and national organizations Teach For America, The New Teacher Project and New Leaders for New Schools. "For most of these districts, implementing the components of strategic management of human capital is still very much a work in progress," says a SMHC report. "Their efforts involve overhauling longstanding, often entrenched bureaucracies." The case studies describe current human resources practices in the eight areas at the core of SHMC's initiative: recruitment, selection, induction, mentoring, professional development, compensation, performance management, and instructional leadership. Among the findings of the case studies:
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