Workforce Planning

Synopsis

Workforce planning is an integral part of organizational performance and success. It provides management with a way to align the workforce with its business strategies and address current and future staffing requirements. Good planning creates direction and a foundation for allocating resources. While workforce planning is chiefly a responsibility of management, several business units within the organisation contribute towards the overall plan, including human resources.

Level: 3
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY REGULAR SEMESTER

Topics

Human Resource planning (HRP): aims, objectives, and perspectives
Linking business plans to workforce plans
Economics and labour market demographics
Human resource planning: an overview of the HRP process
Estimating HR staffing requirements
Measuring success: workforce analytics and auditing
Barriers to successful HRP
The recruitment pipeline
Implementation: HRP in hiring, training and development
Managing growth and decline
HRP and globalisation
The legal framework and workforce planning: issues and challenges

Learning Outcome

Illustrate the frameworks and theories in workforce planning.
Recommend workforce planning strategies to support organisation strategy.
Judge the impact of the economic, labor and political environment on workforce planning.
Examine strategic job analysis as a prelude to forecasting and planning for staffing requirements, applying basic statistical tools.
Apply basic statistical tools in measuring the effectiveness of recruitment and selection processes.
Illustrate an organisation’s management of its workforce flow into, through and out of the organisation.

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Singapore University of Social Sciences

Workforce Planning