New Delhi: What is the top agenda and priority for global talent leaders in 2016? Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2016 has something to say. In 2016, organizational design found the top of the agenda among senior executives and HR leaders worldwide, with 92 percent rating it a key priority. Perennial issues such as leadership, learning, and HR skills continue to rank high in importance, as they have in each of the four years of this annual study.

Culture and engagement are also a major concern for the C-suite.  This reflects, in part, the rise of social networking tools and apps that leave companies more transparent than ever, whether they like it or not.

Further, 89 percent of executives in this year’s survey rated the need to strengthen, reengineer, and improve organizational leadership as an important priority.

Last year, “culture and engagement” ranked as the most important issue overall.  This year 86 percent citing culture as an important or very important issue.

The design of the 21st-century workforce will present new challenges to HR, technology, and business leaders that require deeper levels of collaboration to develop solutions. The open talent economy and the new workforce-machine age are coming into focus, redefining “talent” to include people and machines working in different places under different contracts.