Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016

The theme of this year's report, 'The new organisation: Different by design', reflects the importance executives place on adapting their organisation’s design to compete in today’s challenging business environment and highly competitive talent market.  The global report is available at www.deloitte.co.uk/hctrends.

This special excerpt of the report explores the key findings and priorities for organisations in the UK, including:

• Organisational design - the rise of teams: Businesses are reinventing themselves to operate as networks of teams to keep pace with the challenges of a fluid, unpredictable world
• Shape culture, drive strategy: The impact of culture on business is hard to overstate. Today, new tools can help leaders measure and manage culture towards alignment with business goals.
• Leadership awakened: Leaders of all ages, genders and cultures are now poised to take the reins at organisations around the world.
• Engagement - always on: Under the evolving social contract between employer and employee, workers become “volunteers” to be re-engaged and re-recruited each day.
• People analytics - gaining speed: HR now has the chance to demonstrate ROI on its analytics efforts, helping to make the case for further investment.