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Porter Novelli

Assignment #3 –Chapter 12((Goldsmith) Porter Novelli.

1. Discuss the importance of aligning human resource processes with business strategy.

Aligning human resource processes with business strategy is important because in this case with Porter Novelli the leading global marketing communication firm. It was discovered if the company wanted to increase dramatically the firms capacity in order grow the human resource processes has to be align with the business strategy so the human resource can find the talent need to cultivate top talent, design assessments and measurements for the positions. Aligning human resources with the business strategy will allow the company to install and design systematic business-focused to achieve growth and success.

2. Discuss how the firm used benchmarking to determine the performance standards for leadership, client-facing and specialty/support functions.

The firm used the benchmarking to determine performance standards for leadership because the firm was struggling with the fundamentals of good performance management practice. The firm deicide that first iteration of the performance model would follow the work architecture’s simplicity. The use of the full performance benchmark would be detailed, with consideration of adding exceptional performance definition left for later versions.

3. Identify and explain three objectives of the talent management system including one from each category of operations, customer and financial objective.

The three objectives of the talent management system or the core elements in the new talent management system in this case are to completely revised the performance management system in this case the CTO felt that the key business drivers of revised, specific and reinforce role definitions, significally, strengthened operations concepts of personal accountability and a clear definition of the management and leadership roles. The new system main objective seemed to be...