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Anne Fulton

Anne is an experienced OD Consultant and leader with strengths in all areas of Talent Management, Career Management and Organisational Development. She has been a Registered Organisational Psychologist for over 20 years, executive coach and performance facilitator. She has had particular success in aligning talent intiatives with business strategies to deliver a measurable return on investment in multiple organisations over the years. Anne has led teams of experienced and talented professionals over the years delivering services in assessment, assessment design, competency framework development, coaching and training.
Picture of Anne Fulton

Anne Fulton

Anne is an experienced OD Consultant and leader with strengths in all areas of Talent Management, Career Management and Organisational Development. She has been a Registered Organisational Psychologist for over 20 years, executive coach and performance facilitator. She has had particular success in aligning talent intiatives with business strategies to deliver a measurable return on investment in multiple organisations over the years. Anne has led teams of experienced and talented professionals over the years delivering services in assessment, assessment design, competency framework development, coaching and training.

Is The Job Description An Endangered Species?

Several leading business journals have recently declared the job itself, as a vehicle for packaging work, to be on the endangered species list[i]. Commenting on the same phenomenon, Savage describes “the rigor mortis of the industrial era” where the division of work and managerial supervision represented “structured distrust.” As the industrial era is replaced by the knowledge era, he predicts, both jobs and managers will be gone[ii]. Thus, making the need for the position description redundant. While, this is, admittedly, a fairly radical stance, the Academy of Management Executive concurs:’ The practice of organizing work into fixed sets of tasks that are

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