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Is your organization's workforce fit for its current and future business purpose? Do you know the risks to your business if it is not? Do you know how you will tackle those risks?
Business leaders and senior people professionals must be able to answer 'yes' to all these questions and the only way to achieve this is through successful strategic workforce planning. This practical guide outlines why strategic workforce planning (SWP) is so important and explains how to ensure you get it right. It covers how to assess your current people and organization design, explains how to identify what you need to meet your business goals and provides everything you need to design and implement a successful workforce plan.
Covering everything from getting stakeholder buy-in and setting a vision through to communicating change to the workforce and working with the finance team, The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook includes everything you need to build a business plan that will support future company growth and drive results. There is discussion of how to measure and demonstrate the value of SWP, the internal politics and ethical considerations that you need to be aware of and the significance of diversity and inclusion in workforce planning. This book also contains crucial coverage of skills, technology and SWP metrics.
List of contents
Section - One: Why it Matters Chapter - 01: Why I Love Doing This; Chapter - 02: And What Do You Do?; Chapter - 03: SWP Is Not a Cure-All; Section - Two: How to Practise It Chapter - 04: The Truth is Out There - and it's Hidden in Plain Sight; Chapter - 05: Emotively Captivating; Chapter - 06: Making Friends with Finance and Benefits; Chapter - 07: Lining Up the Anseriformes, aka Getting Your Ducks in a Row; Chapter - 08: Turn and Face the Strange; Chapter - 09: Siren Voices; Chapter - 10: What Has SWP Ever Done for Us? - Part 1; Chapter - 11: What has SWP Ever Done for Us - Part II; Section - Three: How to Land It Chapter - 12: Politics - will the force be with you?; Chapter - 13: Strategy, Scenarios, Scale, Scope.and Sheena; Chapter - 14: The Challengeable Orthodoxy of Third Parties, Headcount and Skills; Chapter - 15: TechNo; Section - Four: Where Its Heading Chapter - 16: Future Perfect; Chapter - 17: A Painful Passion; Chapter - 18: Reflections
About the author
David Edwards
