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

Business Initiative: Merger or Acquisition

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) often raise a host of staffing issues. At the very least, there will be two (or more) workforces that need to be assimilated. Often, this integration creates surplus staff that must be redeployed or reduced. Workforce planning is an ideal tool for managing the integration of multiple workforces and reducing/redeploying surplus staff.

Overall Approach

Think of workforce planning as a tool for managing the transition from two separate workforces to a single integrated workforce. In general, you will want to create a model in which the “supply now” scenario identifies the staff that are available in the two organizations separately and the final “demand then” scenario captures ...