Chapter 14. Engaging and Involving Managers in the Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process

For any workforce planning efforts to be successful, line managers must fully embrace, support, and participate willingly in the process. Yet many organizations try to implement workforce planning processes in which managers participate reluctantly, or perhaps even not at all. What can an organization do to ensure that managers will be active players in workforce planning? How can we get managers to value the process and enthusiastically implement the staffing strategies and plans that result?

Clearly, the active involvement of line managers is critical to the success of any workforce planning process. But before managers will become actively involved ...

Get Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.