- Explains how to assess what skills are needed in the workforce and whether to buy, borrow or build these capabilities
- Provides guidance on how to analyze the gap between the supply and demand for talent in an organization and how best to close this gap
- Shows how to collect the relevant data needed to calculate current and predicted organizational churn
- Explains how to carry out both quantitative and qualitative demand modelling
- Includes case studies from organizations such as Apple, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, NATO and the UK National Health Service
Agile Workforce Planning
How to Align People with Organizational Strategy for Improved Performance
Understand how to continuously organize people, skills and resources to meet changing business needs and forecast for future workforce supply and demand.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781789666052
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 235x157
368 pages
About the book
As business priorities change and focus shifts to address arising issues, HR professionals need to be able to reorganize talent swiftly and plan for future needs to enable the business to succeed. It covers how to forecast organizational demand for people, resources and skills, analyze the gap between supply and demand and most importantly, how to fill this gap. This book explains how to use agile workforce planning to achieve this.
Agile Workforce Planning is a practical guide for HR and organization development practitioners needing to align their staff, skills and resources with evolving company goals. This book also covers how to identify the skills needed in the workforce, where these skills are already available and when they're missing, how to decide whether to buy, borrow or build them.
Agile Workforce Planning explains how to collect data to calculate and predict staff churn as well as how to use qualitative and quantitative demand modelling to forecast for future needs and provides strategies to address these including lateral internal recruitment. There is also expert guidance on horizon scanning, scenario planning and how to secure stakeholder buy in and engagement for an agile workforce plan. Supported by case studies from companies including Apple, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, NATO and the UK National Health Service, this is essential reading for HR and OD professionals needing to continuously align the talent and capabilities in their workforce with the overall business strategy
About the authors
Adam Gibson is a global leader in workforce planning and a consultant in the professional services industry. He has held senior roles in workforce planning, workforce analytics and talent management in a number of prominent public and private sector organizations including PwC, the Metropolitan Police Service and Capita. He is also the Founder of Agile Workforce Planning Ltd and leads the Strategic Workforce Planning Faculty at the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).
Adam has filled a major gap in the literature with this book. Thoughtful, nuanced, rigorous and practical, it will be a great end-to-end guide and reference for leaders and professionals at all levels on the ROI, theory and practice of effective workforce planning.
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