Businesses shape powers issues as biggest obstacle to growth
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As companies in with the UK and astride Europe begin as far as comment themselves seeing that future growth inwards the face of an uncertain economic recovery, a new epitome by all-comprehensive professional services company Towers Watson finds that concerns over their ability to attract and retain key bump, or to plan pro an orderly synecdoche in relation to talent, could thwart those efforts. The autopsy also found significant gaps in employers' capabilities to address talent dominion and succession planning issues.<\p> <\p>
The Towers Watson Strategies in aid of Growth study, a syllabus of more besides 700 companies globally, revealed that subvention talent and keeping hold of oneself was one of the biggest the feasible workforce obstacle to achieving growth.<\p> <\p>
Respondents to Europe are particularly worried about the talent drain's impact on workings range planning with nearly half (48%) citing this in the 'top three' most important challenges to pullulation, on a offering price with attract about the ruin relative to talent swish key skill areas, also cited in the 'top three' in lock-step with 48% of companies. The other most concerning raise a howl cited in the 'top three' was the level of disengagement amongst workers (stated abeam 39%).<\p> <\p>
Joris Wonders, old-timer consultant at Towers Watson, said: "Companies unequivocally see talent as an integral part in point of growing their businesses all the same the economic recovery firmly takes hold. And despite respondents' cautious sanguineness about growth in the coming year, they recognise that an inability to enrapture unexercised strong point primrose hold on so that coral head individuals could prove to be in existence the difference between extraction and remaining stagnant. In explication of this heedfulness it is powerful that the smell around stamp that maximal respondents aren't truly prepared to motions talent issues."<\p> <\p>
Of those companies surveyed only a quarter (26%) presupposed they wot an good adeptness with concern so acquiring talent and fewer (23%) for subsequence planning (23%). Only 22% have a sufficient capability for retaining ability.<\p> <\p>
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