Agile Workforce Planning: How to Align People with Organizational Strategy for Improved Performance

Agile workforce planning is a practical guide for HR and organization development practitioners to align staff, skills, and resources with evolving company goals. It covers how to forecast organizational demand, analyze the gap between supply and demand, and fill it using agile workforce planning. The book provides strategies to identify the skills needed in the workforce, where they are available, and when they are missing, as well as how to collect data to calculate and predict staff churn. It also includes expert guidance on horizon scanning, scenario planning, and securing stakeholder buy-in and engagement.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 368 pages
\n Publication date: 03 January 2021
\n Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
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As business priorities change and focus shifts to address emerging issues, HR professionals must 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 are 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 and how to use qualitative and quantitative demand modeling 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.

\n Weight: 564g\n
Dimension: 157 x 232 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781789666052\n \n