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

by Adam Gibson

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

Genres: Historical Romance

346 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2021

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this to figure out how to implement labor management. While there were lots of definitions and explanations of concepts, I can't say that I'm better equipped to get this going for my organization. I was rather disappointed with the lack of thorough and clear explanation for getting labor management started and building on it. That aside, Gibson has done his research and writes well.

[Tanisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing resource for those interested in keeping up with the ever changing workforce.

[Abby]

Suggested reading for MSc.