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Pacific Region's Top Challenges
The Pacific region's top challenges closely mirror those of North America. And like their peers in North America, executives in the Pacific Region paint a rather uniform picture of the HR landscape, sharing the same top three topics in common: managing talent, improving leadership development, and managing demographics. Diverging somewhat from North America, however, they cited managing change and cultural transformation as an additional challenge.
Sources: Proprietary Boston Consulting Group's Web Survey with responses from Australia and New Zealand; BCG/WFPMA analysis.
Several executives cited the tight labour market in Australia as an ongoing concern with unemployment rate at 5.8 per cent, close to the projected peak of 6.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010. Today, the shortage of skilled workers is creating wage pressure. Tomorrow, demographics, globalisation, and emigration could create real labour shortages and gaps. Executives strongly agreed that the inability to attract talented employees could be the potentially biggest limitation on Australia's economic growth.
Companies' Current Capabilities in Managing Diversity
In most focus countries, executives rated their companies' current capabilities in managing diversity as low or average.
Sources: Proprietary Boston Consulting Group's Web Survey with responses from several focus countries including Australia and New Zealand; BCG/WFPMA analysis.
Managing diversity is a topic of high future importance in only a few focus countries such as Japan, Italy and Spain, where it has been strongly pushed by the government. Respondents from all focus countries, except for Germany, however, estimated that their companies' current capabilities to manage this HR challenge were low or average.
“When you consider all the women of color that went into the pipeline for these (CEO) jobs 25 or 30 years ago, having just one rise to the top means we have a long way to go,’’ says David A. Thomas, Professor and faculty chair at Harvard Business school.
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