Workforce planning: The fundamentals and getting started

Author: Wendy Hirsh, a researcher and consultant specialising in the future-oriented aspects of people management.

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides provides an introduction to and framework for workforce planning. The concepts and methods set out are applicable to all organisations, although they will be applied with differing levels of sophistication depending on the organisation's size and sector.

Here, we explore the nature of workforce planning and its business benefits. This is the first in our series of five guides:

• Workforce planning: Developing the capability for workforce planning
• Workforce planning: Understanding the business context
• Workforce planning: Assessing the current and future workforce
• Workforce planning: Taking action to address resourcing risks