workforce planning

date Jan 14, 2021 1010 AM

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syllabus 2.1.1
point

unit unit 2
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developing and implementing workforce plans
how to forecast demand for employees?
how could you plan for a labour shortage?
how to analyse the supply of employees?

2.1.1 human resource planning (workforce planning)

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the method used by a business to forecast how many and what type of
employees are needed now and in the future
= the process of analysing and forecasting the number of workers and the skills
of those workers that will be required by the organisation to achieve its
objectives
= effective management of an organisation workforce (hr planning)
aims to get the right number of people with the right skills, experience and
competencies in the right jobs at the right time at the right cost

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recruiting new
staff employer/employee
relations
induction of new
employees corporate image

retention of cost
existing staff
training
(keeping them!

training

performance
appraisal

redeployment or
transfer
processes

redundancy and
dismissal policies

how the business

deals with
absenteeism

human resource management: the strategic approach to the effective

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management of an organization's workers so that they help the business
gain a competitive advantage, aims to recruit capable, flexible, and
committed people, managing and rewarding their performance and
developing their key skills to benefit the biz

developing and implementing workforce plans

starts with determining the desired

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 organisational goal

assess current employees

analyse demand for employees

analyse the supply of employees

compare the demand and supply data

develop and implement the workforce plan

how to forecast demand for how could you plan for a labour
employees? shortage?
past data outsourcing

productivity of workers training staff to do more

labour turnover increase

mechanisation/automation (use of
management knowledge
machines)

offer better terms and conditions

of employment to attract new
workers

rescheduling work or increasing

overtime.

look at historical trends/ forecasts

to predict future shortages

highly skilled and flexible

workforce

how to analyse the supply of employees?

"how do we ensure that we have the right people at the right time?"

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 the supply of employees should be analysed by identifying the number of
employees by category and function, their age, qualifications and other important
characteristics

an internal source of labour is when an external source of labour is when

the employees are available within the the employees have to be recruited
organisation from outside the organisation

encouragement of internal availability of housing and

promotion transport

the available staff development / levels of competition

training programs
the rate of unemployment
the labor turnover rate
government training/subsidies
number of vacancies created
skills available in the area
the legal conditions for
population
redundancy/dismissal
demographics

labor legislation

costs of recruitment

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