(Unveiling the Obscure Side of Talent Valuation)
The competition for hiring the desired talent is getting more and more intense as organizations seek to gain greater leverage from the strength of their human assets to assure the robustness of core competencies. However, even the best of recruitment/retention initiatives carry a margin of error and the fragility of a psychological contract between the employer and the employee becomes painfully obvious once expectations wither away on both sides. Therefore, it is prudent to know one's 'Organizational Worthiness' as a career preservation imperative in case certain measures/decisions need to taken before being confronted with an unpleasant surprise from the top echelons of the management hierarchy.
This article introduces the term 'Organizational Worthiness' and provides an introspective talent valuation tool for timely self-assessment of the level of one's indispensability to the organization for hedging against any simmering negative perceptions and/or devising strategies to avoid prioritization as a redundancy target.
