Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Section
+ Off-site
+ Management modeling,
efforrs
reflect knowledge-based means, such as corporate universities and centers and e-development
efforts.
ofall
3.
Describe the broad range of talent management efforts that use software applications by
searching the Internet. Then give some examples of firms that have successfirlly used these
applications.
sizes today?
bant<s are
watching closely, namely startups: in t}re financial indusuy that are changing the way banks and
fi-Lnd management 6rms can charge fees for dreir
digital
tra-il of transactions.
But
witl
that private bankers will have ro do more to justify their paychecks, including working wirh more
clienrs.
demand for privare bankers. But evenually, bankers must hold more specialisr skills ro be ahead of
the game.
l'The industry r:ecognizes rhat with evolv-
technology to boost their capabilities when servicing clients. In the wealrh managemenr business
for instance, private banks such as Credir Suisse
and DBS have turned ro technology to churn
out more invesrment ideas more quicklir for clients. Customers now can also access data on their
servtces.
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ters Singapore.
"The efficiency of the financial services industry could have been enhanced by the more Pervasive'adopiion of IT," a MAS spokeswoman said.
This also comes as "higher value-added activities"
such as fund manag..rr.rt boosted contibutions
over the last rwo years, she added.
The qualiry of labor in the financial sector has
also improved, MAS said. The share of PMETs
(professionals, managers, execudves and technicians) among residents employed in the financial
services sectot rose from77 Per cent in 2012 to 81
per cenr in2OI4. The number of employed residents wich diplomas, professional qualifications or
degrees in the sector has also increased, data from
20rt.
In a speech last year, Mr Tharman had flagged
wealier job gror,l"rh as a concern, and urged banks
to build specialists as technoiogy reinvenred the
industry. He also noted that there is demand for
specialists in areas such as structured trade finance
and risk managemenr.
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Section 3
progra_ms
diff.i.rri*"r-
Questions
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2.
ahead.
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6.
2.
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"2006 Talent Management
Survey Report,"
Res e arc h,
SHRII
T.
Second
4.
8.
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9.
Human
Reuiew,15
Res oarce
Managc-rnent
(200A,$9-
754.
2006,
ww.ut.
barn.corn.
20_
5.
ZOO 6,
35.
Q""rt"rb
2006,44.
"TalentManagement Software
Is Bundling Up," Vorffirce
Management, October 9,
NancyR Iockwood,
Research
*Iilent
Rafter,
Management Systems Make
Inroads with Employers," Workforce Management, Jamnry 30,
org.
3.
Michelle
Gt7.
euarter
10.
Perin,2005).
11. Manhew
Gulteridge, Asmus B.
'The
20
com.
12. EdFrauenheim,
"Firms Valk
Fine Line with 'High-potentiai,
Programs," Workfo rce Management, September 25, 2006,
44.
13. Jaclyne Badal, "Career-path
Programs Help Retain \7orkers," Tlte Vall Street Journal,
July 24,2006, Bt.
14. Toddi Gutner, "Still \Torkirig
and Loving
It" BusinessVeeh,
16.
538-551.