What Is the Objective of Strategic Staffing?
Let’s start thinking differently about strategic staffing/workforce planning by defining a new, nontraditional objective for the process itself. In many cases, firms think that the objective of strategic staffing is to predict future staffing needs (usually with some degree of certainty) and then define the staffing actions that should be taken in the near term to eliminate problems that may (or may not) occur in the future.
At best, this is difficult to do well (and accurately); at worst, it proves to be an academic exercise that has little impact on the organization. Some companies give up on the process right away because managers lack the skills, understanding, or patience to forecast their long-term ...
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