What is workforce planning?
Workforce planning is the people side of planning, but some businesses skip it, thinking that people will just appear when needed. Workforce planning aligns core business goals with people strategy. It makes no sense to plan on a new product launch next year without thinking about R&D, supply chain, and sales staff.
Workforce planning is the tool you use to ensure that alignment.
What is involved in workforce planning?
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) identifies the critical points of workforce planning as follows.
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I just wish that the label–workforce planning– be changed to the efficient cost of labor needs to be to produce high profit–based on a theoretical critique of expected performance by the workers.
Meanwhile, workers are expecting the companies to value them as individuals and will accommodate their individual needs to be able to perform at their best capacity.
Neither idea is based on any reality situation–so here lies the problem. Until the two ideals find a compromise to blend the best of both–the corporation heads are never going to see any value in their employees because they are only looking at the effects of the cost of the labor staffing on the profits.—No Dreamjobs here.