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The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

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Talent Management is more than just hiring more people, deploying them in clearly defined jobs, measuring their performance and rewarding them; talent management happens when the people's ability, particularly people's managerial and leadership ability, is optimised to create the most strategic value ......by integrating the recruitment, the training and the retention tactics to maximise investment...

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Page 1: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

or

The Ant

A Fable...

Or

Page 2: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early

and starts work immediately.

Page 3: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

She produces a lot and she was happy.

Page 4: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

The Chief, a lion,

was surprised to see

that the ant was

working without

supervision.

Page 5: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

He thought if the ant

can produce so much

without supervision,

wouldn’t she produce

even more if she had a

supervisor!

Page 6: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

So he recruited a

cockroach

who had extensive

experience as

supervisor and who

was famous for

writing excellent

reports.

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The cockroach’s first

decision was to set up

a clocking in

attendance system.

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He also needed a

secretary to help him

write and type his

reports and …

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... he recruited a spider,

who managed the

archives and monitored

all phone calls.

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The lion was delighted

with the cockroach's

reports

and asked him to

produce graphs to

describe production

rates and to analyse

trends, so that he could

use them for

presentations at

Board‘s meetings.

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So the cockroach had to buy a new computer

and a laser printer and ...

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... recruited a fly

to manage the IT

department.

Page 13: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

The ant, who had once been so productive and

relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork

and meetings which used up most of her time…!

Page 14: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

The lion came to the

conclusion that it was

high time to nominate a

person in charge of the

department where the

ant worked.

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The position was given to the

cicada, whose first decision

was to buy a carpet and an

ergonomic chair for his office.

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The new person in charge, the

cicada, also needed a computer

and a personal assistant ,who

he brought from his previous

department, to help him

prepare a Work and Budget

Control Strategic Optimisation

Plan …

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The Department where the ant

works is now a sad place,

where nobody laughs anymore

and everybody has become

upset...

Page 18: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

It was at that time

that the cicada

convinced the boss ,

the lion, of the

absolute necessity to

start a climatic study

of the environment .

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Having reviewed

the charges for

running the ant’s

department , the

lion found out that

the production

was much less than

before.

Page 20: The ant and the corporation - Talent Management Gone Wrong

So he recruited the

owl , a prestigious

and renowned

consultant to carry

out an audit and

suggest solutions.

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The owl spent three

months in the

department and

came up with an

enormous report ,

in several volumes,

that concluded :

“ The department is

overstaffed ...”

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Guess who the lion fires first?

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The ant , of course, because she “showed lack of motivation and had a negative

attitude".

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Os personagens desta fábula são fictícios; qualquer semelhança com pessoas ou factos reais é pura coincidência.

NB:

The characters in this fable are fictitious; any resemblance toreal people or facts within the Corporation is pure coincidence…

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Adapted from Portuguese by PR. Obrigado Mário.