Few companies look at workforce planning the same way they do financial investments or information technology. Yet how often do we hear company leaders talk about people being their company’s most important asset?
If you’re going to use a word like “asset” to describe people, then the least you can do is take a precise approach. No such luck, says Wharton School professor Peter Capelli. In his 2012 book, Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs, Capelli observes, “For some reason....