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Workforce planning: Understanding the business context

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 discuss how workforce planning should start with a good understanding of the business as it is now and its future direction. This involves looking both externally at the shifting context in which the organisation operates and internally at the evolving business strategy and culture. This is the third in our series of five guides: