Defining Required Staffing Levels: An Overview
From an overall perspective, there are several steps that you should take to define required staffing levels:
- Fully understand your business. In order to define requirements, you must be able to identify what is really driving changes in staffing levels at your company. To do this well, you must fully understand your business and its strategies and plans. Just understanding the staffing process well is insufficient.
- Identify what is driving staffing needs. Identify what is truly creating or changing your staffing needs, whether they are defined in terms of skills or staffing levels. Staffing requirements are often driven by changes in business activity (up or down), shifts in product/service mix, ...
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