Preface to the Second Edition

Most organizations understand the benefits that a longer-term approach to staff planning can bring. Many actually attempt to develop staffing strategies (or strategic workforce plans, as they are also known). Unfortunately, these companies often find that the traditional approaches to strategic staffing and workforce planning that they are trying to implement are ineffective, and that the expected benefits are not realized. To me, the solution to this problem lies not in trying to improve the effectiveness of the traditional approach, but in implementing a completely different kind of process for strategic staffing/workforce planning.

This book describes that process. It is a practical resource for both those who ...

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