Talent Wars

As major employers across the country continue the trend of massive layoffs, human resource departments face challenges regarding who stays and who goes. Usually, the entry-level or mid-management employees receive their pink slips first, but a recent study suggests that top level managers might be the better targets. David speaks with two of the leading researchers in the field - Helen Hanfield-Jones, a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Toronto, and Larry Prusak, Executive Director of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.