Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition

An Overview of the Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process

Before describing the process, let’s review some of the key concepts that were introduced in Chapter 2. Strategic staffing/workforce planning is a process that organizations use to help them identify and address the staffing implications of business plans and strategies. By implementing this process, organizations can ensure that they will have the right number of people, with the right capabilities, in place at the right time. When implemented effectively, the process results in two major outputs or deliverables: staffing strategies (which describe what will be done in the long term, across planning periods, to address critical staffing issues) and staffing plans (which describe ...