Bosses "on wrong path" in talent war

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By Kate Southam
11mar05

AUSTRALIAN organisations need to become better communicators, provide clearer career paths and create truly flexible work practices if they hope to counter the impact of the growing skills shortage.This was the message presented today by a range of experts to the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association 2005 Workforce Symposium on productivity.

The views of an academic and economist, management and human resources experts and recruitment consultants echoed one another in their warning to Australian organisations that they were already locked in a global battle for workers.

The experts urged employers to show more imagination in creating workplaces and work practices that reflected what employees actually wanted.