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Wisdom on Workforce Planning

Peter Howes

MY JOURNEY IN WORKFORCE PLANNING (WFP) commenced in detail some thirty-five years ago. At that stage, I was a lecturer at the Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT, now the Queensland University of Technology) in Brisbane, Australia. In 1978, I introduced a course on workforce planning as an elective in the human resources management degree at QIT. The course was called Corporate Manpower Planning.

The only text I could find at the time was a small book called Practical Manpower Planning by John Branham, published by the Institute of Personnel Management (now the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, or CIPD) in London. To run the course, I mainly used various articles. These included articles ...