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AIF International Symposium 2013Sasana Kijang, Bank Negara Malaysia,

28 August 2013

Plenary: The Talent Ecosystem

Dzulkifli Abdul RazakPresident

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Talent Ecosystem● the building blocks of effective talent ecosystem depends on what you understand by “talent”● the good & the bad of Malaysian talent

ecosystem is there a talent ‘ecosystem’ in Malaysia?● Malaysian education system: are we on the right

track? qualified “no”!

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Talent Ecosystem● the building blocks of effective talent ecosystem depends on what we understand by “talent”● the good & the bad of Malaysian talent ecosystem is there a talent ‘ecosystem’ in Malaysia?● Malaysian education system: are we on the right

track? qualified “no”! qualified “no”!

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W HO?

W HAT?

W HEN?

W IN UP TO RM89,000 WORTH OF PRIZES

1. A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. 2. a. Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality. b. A person or group of people having such ability. 3. A variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East.

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Name Changes/Ecosystem in 20th CenturyPre-1900 Small Business & Guilds Did not yet even exist Owners

owned the HR issues

1900-20 Industrial Revolution Labour Relations People as

interchangeable parts Civil Service & WWI Industrial Relations Workers’ rights and more formalised processes

1940-60 Scientific Management Personnel Efficiency experts and & WWII Administration more highly evolved HR processes Civil Rights & Personnel Legal compliance and Compliance reporting; “policy police”

1980-90 Human Relations, Human Resources, People Relevance in a fast-changing Knowledge/Service world, the motivation and Economy, Mergers & Acquisitions “human relations” theories abound

 

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Modern Organisations Human Capital? No new official names, Organisational but lots of “morphing”

Effectiveness? as the transactional Organisational parts get outsourced Capacity? and the transformational

parts get defined

 2010 Global Economy and tbd (?) Still evolving, focus on e-Enabled Technologies Talent; Capability;

Culture; Consulting - Challenged to be an

effective Internal Consulting Organisation

 

2000

Name Changes/Ecosystem in 21st Century

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Pre-1900

1920-40

1940-60

1980-90

2000

Labour RelationsIndustrial Relations

Personnel AdminPersonnel

Human ResourcesPeople

Human Capital(?)

(?)

…more holistic; more humane…

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The Changing Face…?

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Ultimate Aim: Up the Value Chain

…the “me-first” materialist ethos…

We are Human Capital

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Yes, I am Human Capital

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Down the Values Chain

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Pre-1900

1920-40

1940-60

1980-90

2000 2010

Labour RelationsIndustrial Relations

Personnel AdminPersonnel

Human ResourcesPeople

Human Capital(?)“Talent”(?)

(?)

…more holistic; more humane…

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“Human being”(?)

The Changing Face…?

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Talent Ecosystem

● the building blocks of effective talent ecosystem

depends on what we understand by “talent”

● the good & the bad of Malaysian talent ecosystem

is there a “talent” ecosystem in Malaysia?

● Malaysian education system: are we on the right track?

qualified “no”! qualified “no”!

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‘Assembly-line’ education

Modified from Microsoft ® Encarta ® Encyclopedia 2004

CustomerContent

providers

Tests/Quality Control

Graduation

ProductValue-addClasses

‘Assembly-line ecosystem’

Marketplace

A (human) factory-market ecosystem

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…the (souless) human factory ecosystem…

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Humanity is rapidly becoming less the outcome of natural process of development,

and more and more the product of an organised educational plan.

He (“the educated man”) is simply a manufactured article bearing the stamp of

the maker.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29630/29630-h/29630-h.htm

Harold E Gorst (1901)The Curse of Education,

Chap I: Flourishing Mediocrity

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What now? …in the 21st Centuryand beyond…

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Talent Ecosystem● the building blocks of effective talent

ecosystem depends on what you understand by “talent”● the good & the bad of Malaysian talent

ecosystem is there a talent ‘ecosystem’ in Malaysia?● Malaysian education system: are we on the

right track? qualified “no”!

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EDUCATIONAn aim of achieving

individual (personalised) well-being

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“…children are

initiated into a

worldview based on

technocratic and

mechanistic frameworks

.” - Williams, D,

(2008), J Ed SD, p. 42

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The Changing Face…?

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The 8 UN Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015)

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EDUCATIONAn act of learning for

the well-being of humanity

“The heart ofeducation

is the education

of the Heart.”

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Up the value chain(as human capital)

Down the values chain(as human being)

http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/16985/1/P_Pagliano_Care_ed_4-11.pdf

…the disconnect of education today

and the “talent” ecosystem (?)

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~ 95 %

The champagne-glass ecosystem

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Steve Job (1955- 2011)

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out own

inner voice. And most important, have the

courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.”

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