
Strategic Workforce Planning
Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future Growth
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Is your workforce strategy ready to meet future business demands?
Strategic Workforce Planning by Ross Sparkman is a comprehensive guide for senior HR leaders and executives who want to align people strategy with business goals and deliver sustainable competitive advantage.
Fully updated with new chapters on remote work strategies and operational workforce planning, this edition equips leaders with proven tools for navigating rapid change, managing AI and automation impacts and ensuring the organization has the skills and capacity it needs. Drawing on fresh real-world examples and global best practice, it provides a governance-led approach to building workforce agility.
You'll discover how to:
- Forecast future hiring demand and address critical skills gaps
- Prioritize investments in training and development for maximum ROI
- Manage workforce transformation in response to AI, automation and market shifts
- Integrate workforce planning with Diversity and Inclusion objectives
With strategic models, actionable frameworks and real-world insights, Strategic Workforce Planning enables senior decision-makers to design and deliver workforce strategies that meet today's priorities and prepare for tomorrow's challenges.
Themes include: workforce strategy, governance, AI impact, skills development, diversity and inclusion
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Table of contents
- 01 Introduction
- 02 Aligning workforce and corporate strategies
- 03 Understanding workforce demand
- 04 Understanding talent supply
- 05 Role of workforce analytics in strategic workforce planning
- 06 Operational workforce planning
- 07 Creating an effective strategic workforce planning function
- 08 Leadership and change management in strategic workforce planning
- 09 Skills-based strategic workforce planning
- 10 Strategic workforce planning for location strategy
- 11 Strategic workforce planning for contractors and the contingent workforce
- 12 Total cost of the workforce
- 13 Workforce segmentation
- 14 GenAI in strategic workforce planning
- 15 Strategic workforce planning for remote and hybrid work models
- 16 Strategic workforce planning from early career to succession
- 17 The future of strategic workforce planning
- References
- Index