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This volume provides an overview of strategic workforce planning (SWP), covering best practices across organization types, geographies, and methodologies, and addressing new directions in the field. As well as discussing changes in the workforce and workplace due to global disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of quickly evolving technologies, this book re-examines what SWP is and can be, how it is conducted, and what impact it can have on individual organizations and beyond.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Strategic Workforce Planning: Embracing Best Practices while Reimagining our Potential
- Marc Sokol and Beverly Tarulli
- Chapter 1: Strategic Workforce Planning: How Can Our Legacy Frame the Future?
- Dan L. Ward
- Chapter 2: A Practitioner's Guide to Maturing Strategic Workforce Planning in Your Organization
- Tanya Moore
- Chapter 3: Practitioners' Perspectives on Operationalizing Strategic Workforce Planning: Data, Analytics and Beyond
- Sheri L. Feinzig
- Chapter 4: Strategic Workforce Planning in the U.S. Federal Government
- Laura Knowles and Samantha Adrignola
- Chapter 5: The History of the Workforce at Saudi Aramco: Opportunities for I/O Psychology
- Christian Hobson and Paul van Katwyk
- Chapter 6: Agile Workforce Planning
- Adam Gibson and Nicola Oldroyd
- Chapter 7: Strategic Workforce Planning for Growth: Strategies and Technology for Multispeed Growth
- James D. Eyring, Andrew P. Newmark, and Sunil Setlur
- Chapter 8: Enabling Strategic Workforce Planning Through Skills, Artificial Intelligence, and Internal Talent Marketplace
- Brian Heger
- Chapter 9: Strategic Work-Task Planning
- David Creelman, Alexis Fink, and David Ulrich
- Chapter 10: The Job as Work Role and Profession: It's More Than Skills
- Andrea Fischbach and Benjamin Schneider
- Chapter 11: Beyond the Theory: Adaptive Workforce Planning Approaches that Are Business-Led
- Adam McKinnon and Kanella Salapatas
- Chapter 12: The X-Factor in Strategic Workforce Planning: For CEOs, Context Is King
- David Reimer and Adam Bryant
- Chapter 13: Scenario Planning: The Secret Sauce to Making Strategic Workforce Planning Agile
- Edie Goldberg
- Chapter 14: Moving Mountains: Stamina and Resistance in Just Workforce Planning
- Juliet R. Aiken and Tori Glascock
- Chapter 15: Zero Hour for Jobs: How One Company Helped Others Adapt Their SWP When Covid Roiled the Planet, and Learned to Adapt Itself
- Michael Nicholas Bazigos
- Chapter 16: Teaching Strategic Workforce Planning: Hit the Ground Running
- Steve Weingarden, Nikita Arun, Juliet R. Aiken
- Conclusion: A Call to Action for Rethinking Workforce Planning
- Beverly Tarulli and Marc Sokol
About the author
Marc B. Sokol, PhD, is President of Sage Consulting Resources. He has worked in large and small firms, in the public and private sectors, in both internal and external roles, across 25 countries, as an expatriate executive, and now leads his own firm.
Beverly A. Tarulli, PhD, is Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, leading the human capital analytics and technology master's degree program. She is also the founder and president of Novius Consulting.
Summary
Industrial-organizational psychologists increasingly advise organizations on talent planning, executive succession, workplace design, and better ways to ensure the future supply of talent: a suite of practice areas that comprise strategic workforce planning (SWP). This volume provides an overview of SWP, covering best practices across organization types, geographies, and methodologies, and addressing new directions in the field. Contributors share case examples and experience-based insights, spanning the evolution of SWP, best practices for analytics and consulting, maturity models, how SWP can be practiced in large companies inside and outside the United States, in high- and low-growth environments, and when to organize around planning for future tasks vs planning for future roles. As well as discussing changes in the workforce and workplace due to global disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of quickly evolving technologies, this book re-examines what SWP is and can be, how it is conducted, and what impact it can have on individual organizations and beyond.
