Chapter 4. Placing Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning in a New Context

As stated in the previous chapter, even the most elegant strategic staffing/workforce planning process can’t be effective if it is implemented within the wrong context. As many processes fail because they are implemented incorrectly as fail because they were designed improperly. Yet many organizations with ineffective workforce planning approaches still try to change the process and not the implementation context. I truly believe that such companies will never achieve the results they desire. This chapter describes the implementation context within which I have found strategic staffing/workforce planning to work most effectively. And watch out—this is probably the most ...

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