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How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball? Moneyball is a 2011 baseball drama film adapted based on Michael Lewis's 2003 novel with the same name. The film is about the Oakland Athletics U.S. Major League Baseball team as well as the innovative and breakthrough approach taken by its general manager, Billy Beane, to assemble a competitive team despite the franchise's limited budget and three star players leaving the team.
When one of the protagonists of this case, head hunter company CEO-Eason, received a talent recruitment commission from a traditional company established over 60 years ago; he recalled how he witnessed the Oakland Athletics made history using innovative strategies when he worked as a player analyst between 1999 and 2004. Can the process and concept of the operating model for Oakland Athletics, despite its internal and external conditions as well as talent depletion problems, provide a lesson for talent recruitment by Small and Medium Enterprise （SME） in Taiwan?
We often hear that the enterprises in Taiwan cannot find talents, especially those SME that are not well-known or offer less competitive salaries or benefits. SME require stronger core competitiveness and malleability than large enterprises because they do not have nearly as much resources as larger enterprises. Increasingly more SME believe their biggest problem is talent gap instead of technology enhancement. Smaller enterprises must rely on talents if they want to compete against the larger enterprises.
The contents of this case are analogous to the operating philosophy of Oakland Athletics. The objective is to explore the relationship chain between the enterprise end, the head hunting consultation companies, and the professional workers in Taiwan from the human resource recruitment perspective; and discuss how they can work together to comprehensively resolve the recruitment problems.
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