The Sunday News
Robin Muchetu, Senior Reporter
LOCAL firms have been encouraged to invest in talent management as they gear up for economic turnaround.
Talent management is an organisation’s commitment to recruit, retain, and develop its employees.
Ms Silinganiso Moyo, the director of Dispute Resolution Consultancy (DRC) said now is the time for companies to undertake talent management.
“In such economies it is wise to grow and develop your workers such that as the country gets back on its feet there are workers that are well-trained and motivated and these will bring back the company to its former glory,” she said.
She said top management must be trained first and skills grown and imparted to lower level employees so that they assist in developing the company and ensuring that it meets its long and short term goals.
Furthermore, she said companies need to have policies on talent management.
“Each company should have talent management policies that spell out how the organisation will develop them, this way workers have confidence in the firm, because no organisation will invest in training of workers that they do not want to keep,” said Ms Moyo.
Mr Hector Moyo, a manager at DRC said talent management sees companies having a team of reliable workers and managers.
“If talent is managed you have a pool of reliable employees that are self-managed and you get quality products and results.
You have the right employee at the right place unlike randomly having workers who are not doing what they should be,” he said.
He said employers have to focus on their employees at such a time when the economy is on a recovery path. The concept of talent management is not new in the developed world but is fairly a new concept in developing countries like Zimbabwe.
The team at DRC said their major challenge was that companies were not investing in training workers much due to economic pressures. They, however, said training was an important part of any organisation.
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