Steps in Workforce Planning
There are five fundamental activities that make up a Workforce Plan:
- Environment Scan
- Environment Scanning is a form of business intelligence. In the context of Workforce Planning it is used to identify the set of facts or circumstances that surround a workforce situation or event.
- Current Workforce Profile
- Current State is a profile of the demand and supply factors both internally and externally of the workforce the organization has today.
- Future Workforce View
- Future View is determining the organization’s needs considering the emerging trends and issues identified during the Environment Scanning.
- Analysis and Targeted Future
- Once critical elements are identified through quantitative and qualitative analysis, the future targets that are the best fit in terms of business strategy and is achievable given the surrounding factors (internal/external, supply/demand) are determined.
- Closing the Gaps
- The process is about determining appropriate actions to close the gaps in order to deliver the targeted future. There are 8 key areas:
- Resourcing, Learning and Development, Remuneration, Industrial Relations, Recruitment, Retention, Knowledge Management, Job design.
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