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

Part 2: Defining Required Staffing Actions

Since this is a simple one-period model, the next step is to define the staffing actions that you should take to eliminate gaps and surpluses. If this were a real model, however, you would at this point “carry forward” the results of period 1 into period 2 and calculate gaps and surpluses for that period (assuming at this point, of course, that only uncontrollable staffing actions occur). Once gaps and surpluses for period 2 were defined, you would carry your results forward into period 3 (again, considering only uncontrollable staffing actions), then repeat this process until preliminary gaps and surpluses had been calculated for every period. Next, you would review gaps and surpluses in each category ...