Workshop 4 (half day)

Talent Acquisition: New Realities of Attraction, Selection, and Retention

Presenters: Wayne F. Cascio, University of Colorado-Denver
Larry Fogli, People Focus, Inc.

Coordinator: Gloria M. Pereira, University of Houston-Clear Lake

Organizations of every stripe are facing new realities in their efforts to attract, select, and retain talent. This workshop is intended for HR practitioners who must deal with new realities wrought by the shift from manufacturing to service jobs; multiple generations in the workforce; demographic diversity; the globalization of product, service, and labor markets; new forms of organizations; the Internet; and advances in technology. Workshop participants will learn about the latest methods organizations are using to attract, select, and retain talent in global markets. Such approaches include the use of employment branding, as well as techniques to measure fit, talent, and character, in addition to, or in some cases in place of, traditional KSAOs. Participants also will learn about practical, effective retention strategies in light of new employment realities characterized by, among other things, temporary and part-time employees, altered psychological contracts, and diversity in readily detectable attributes as well as in underlying ones.

Wayne F. Cascio received his PhD in I-O psychology from the University of Rochester. He is professor of management and international business at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is past chair of the HR Division of the Academy of Management and past president of SIOP. He has authored or edited 18 text books, more than 80 journal articles and 30 book chapters, and consulted with more than 150 organizations on six continents. Currently he serves on the Boards of Directors of CPP, Inc., the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, and the Academy of Management.

Lawrence Fogli received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in organizational behavior and business administration. As a former corporate executive and vice-president of human resources and as an external consultant, his expertise has been applied to several major companies and industries in design and implementation of management and personnel systems to improve both individual and company effectiveness. He has expertise in both strategic and specific functional human resource areas such as organizational restructuring, improving customer service delivery, employee hiring and promotion systems, employee and customer surveys, and performance improvement and management systems.

Larry has published widely in professional journals and books. He has served as a part-time faculty member in the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; School of Business and Economics, California State University Hayward; the Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University; and the Department of Psychology, California State University Hayward.

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