Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition

Traditional Approaches Just Aren’t Effective

Many organizations that understand the value of strategic staffing/workforce planning create excellent processes, but then doom these processes to failure by implementing them incorrectly. Some organizations that attempt to implement a strategic staffing process follow a fairly traditional approach. Usually, these companies make staff planning a component of their annual business planning process. Often, they request that managers identify their future staffing needs for each year of the planning period (usually in terms of headcount, not required capabilities), using a common template or form. The templates are at a common level of detail and are based on common planning parameters (e.g., all units ...