Positioned

Positioned
Author: Dan L. Ward
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814432476

In today's highly competitive job market, companies are struggling to find the right people to fill their positions. Learn how to make great hires, realign your workforce, and get your company's profits back on track.

Strategic Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Planning
Author: Ross Sparkman
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749482028

Strategic Workforce Planning is a practical guide to effectively assess, manage and prepare for current and future workforce requirements. It demystifies the often complex and seemingly technical world of strategic workforce planning to explain what it is, why it's necessary and most importantly, how to do it. Packed full of advice and real-world examples, Strategic Workforce Planning is a playbook for workforce planning from beginning to end. It enables HR professionals to answer core business questions including how do I analyze future hiring demand? How do I assess what skills will be required in the future? How should I prioritize investments like training and development? How do I assess the supply of talent around the world? How do I identify the business drivers that impact workforce demand? It also covers the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and machine learning on the global workforce and how to deal with these implications. Whether you're a start-up, small business or a large corporate, this book will show you how to align people strategy with company strategy to ensure your organization maintains its competitive advantage.

Agile Workforce Planning

Agile Workforce Planning
Author: Adam Gibson
Publisher: Kogan Page
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781789666076

Understand how to continuously organize people, skills and resources to meet changing business needs and forecast for future workforce supply and demand.

Strategic Staffing

Strategic Staffing
Author: Thomas P. Bechet
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2008-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814412823

Co-published with SHRM. Many organizations understand the benefits of a longer-term approach to staffing: reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to strategic staffing are often more effective on paper than in the workplace. Strategic Staffing: Second Edition shows how to identify staffing needs and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative measures, and presents several effective, nontraditional approaches to strategic staffing. Bechet includes factors as diverse as promotions, retirements, "decruiting" (the active management of staff out of an organization), termination, and even retention. Featuring full case studies and dozens of examples, the book is both enlightening and practical. And to help readers create their own staffing plans, the companion site has holds a trove of invaluable tools, including: • PowerPoint(TM) slide presentations • Customizable Excel(TM) spreadsheets * Assessment and evaluation forms • Calculations and analyses • Sample staffing plans, and much more. Integrating a strategic approach to staffing can result in reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. This book is a detailed, process-oriented guide that offers all the tools staffing professionals need.

Lean but Agile

Lean but Agile
Author: William Rothwell
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814417787

As organizations strive to meet stringent budgets, the mandate to produce greater results with fewer resources is no longer sufficient. Rather than accepting less, managers and executives must strive for better--evaluating every process and every role and doing away with assumptions about how work gets done and who does it in order to streamline processes and maximize efficiency. William Rothwell, who was honored with the ASTD Distinguished Contribution Award in Workplace Learning and Peformance, presents a system for analyzing work and selecting the ideal combination of cost-effective resources--employees, consultants, contractors, temporary workers, and vendors--to accomplish it. Lean but Agile does this by teaching readers to focus on outcomes and work backwards--exploring the introduction, implementation, and management of lean work and agile staffing methods that will produce those outcomes. You’ll also learn about advantageous changes in hiring, goal-setting, learning and development, and performance management, and the fundamental role technology can play in transforming your processes. Packed with practical advice, examples, guides, worksheets, diagrams, and metrics, Lean but Agile will help leaders, managers, and human resource professionals optimize their workforces while still achieving superior results.

Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Atiku, Sulaiman Olusegun
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2019-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 152259812X

Advances in technological innovations, automation, and the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have revolutionized the nature of work and created a demand for a new set of skills to navigate the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). Therefore, it is necessary to equip displaced workers with a new set of skills that are essential for conversion into technical or other functional areas of business. Human Capital Formation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an essential research publication that recognizes the need to revitalize human capital formation for graduate employability in Industry 4.0 and discusses new skills and competencies needed to cope with the challenges present within this industrial revolution. The book seeks to provide a basis for curriculum design in line with the advances in technological innovations, automation, and artificial intelligence to enhance current and future employment. Featuring an array of topics such as curriculum design, emotional intelligence, and healthcare, this book is ideal for human resource managers, development specialists, training officers, teachers, universities, practitioners, academicians, researchers, managers, policymakers, and students.

The Workforce Scorecard

The Workforce Scorecard
Author: Mark A. Huselid
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2005-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633690598

In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices hinder employees' ability to contribute to strategic goals. To maximize the power of their workforce, organizations must meet three challenges: view their workforce in terms of contribution rather than cost; replace benchmarking metrics with measures that differentiate levels of strategic impact; and make line managers and HR professionals jointly responsible for executing workforce initiatives. Building on the proven model outlined in their best-selling book The HR Scorecard, Mark Huselid, Brian Becker, and co-author Richard Beatty show how to create a Workforce Scorecard that identifies and measures the behaviors, competencies, mind-set, and culture required for workforce success and reveals how each dimension impacts the bottom line. Practical and timely, The Workforce Scorecard offers crucial lessons for leveraging human capital to achieve strategic success.

Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management?

Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management?
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-11-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0309677327

Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage the wants and needs of each generation. But is each new generation really that different from previous ones? Are there fundamental differences among generations that impact how they act and interact in the workplace? Or are the perceived differences among generations simply an indicator of age-related differences between older and younger workers or a reflection of all people adapting to a changing workplace? Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management? reviews the state and rigor of the empirical work related to generations and assesses whether generational categories are meaningful in tackling workforce management problems. This report makes recommendations for directions for future research and improvements to employment practices.

Workforce Development

Workforce Development
Author: Tom Short
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-07-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9812870687

This book is the second in a series of two volumes that reviews a broad range of strategies and practices undertaken as workplace development activities in a post-global financial crisis period when organisational volatility and survival were foremost in the minds of leaders. Drawing mainly from a wide range of major research projects conducted Australia and with some contributions from international authors, this second book is a compilation of contemporary themes and applications that were developed from individual research projects. During the global financial crisis, the Australian economy out-performed many other developed countries, but it was not immune from international pressures such as global competition, market fluctuations and an increasingly mobile workforce. These issues are reflected in many of the chapters and the combined work will inform readers about the major workforce development challenges facing public and private sector organisations. The book blends relevant literature with rich empirical evidence gathered from large and small organisations and includes application tools developed by researchers who are experts in their field. This book will be of scholarly interest to a broad audience of academics, industry leaders, human resource practitioners and students in adult education, business, psychology and social science disciplines. Moreover, the book will be of interest to education and training professionals, management consultants, and more generally, people who follow the evolution of work and its impact on contemporary society.​

Workforce Planning Toolkit

Workforce Planning Toolkit
Author: Lydia Cillie-Schmidt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012
Genre: Employment forecasting
ISBN: 9781869221799

"Workforce Planning has become an integral part of organisational strategy and provides an excellent opportunity to show HR how they can add value to the business as they facilitate the effective implementation of this crucial process. This Toolkit contains 42 tools arranged in eight sections, categorised according to the seven main phases in the Workforce Planning roadmap plus a final section, where everything is put together to make an integrated whole. The tools are based on practical experience by Workforce Planning practitioners, supported by the inputs of researchers and academics. The tools are designed to assist anyone involved in Workforce Planning with: Becoming familiar with the various steps and concepts involved in Workforce Planning; Providing a starting point for designing the organisation's own tools and processes; A basis for facilitating interaction with regard to Workforce Planning in the organisation, as the tools can be used as frameworks for discussion. You can select and adapt any of the tools provided to meet your specific requirements. The Toolkit is not comprehensive, and you may have to add to it based on your own experience and circumstances. The tools provided in this Toolkit are divided into the following categories: Ensuring organisational readiness; Creating contex; Understanding current internal and external workforce; Futuring; Gap analysis; Developing and implementing strategies to address the workforce gaps; Monitoring and evaluation; Putting it all together. Each section of the Toolkit deals with the main aspects and steps that should be considered and followed when implementing Workforce Planning. Each tool is explained according to the following headings: An introduction to the tool and where it fits into the total process; The aim of the tool; A description of what the tool entails, and how and when to use it; Links to other tools; The tool itself; Specific references"--Publisher description.