CIPD urges HR to raise the bar through effective workforce planning with launch of a new guide
Workforce planning – defined as ensuring the people resources are in place to deliver short and long-term organisation objectives - should be a core process of HR in order to help build sustainable organisation performance. This is the view of a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) guide, Workforce Planning: Right People, Right Time, Right Skills, which demonstrates how organisations can deliver the business plan through its people.
CIPD research shows that too many organisations are neglecting to plan for the future. This year's Resourcing and Talent Planning survey shows most organisations carry out workforce planning for the next 1-2 years (41%), with a fifth planning less than one year in advance (20%). Responding to these concerns, the guide urges organisations to look beyond short-term budgetary planning to the longer term needs of the organisation for sustained performance.
APA Director General Gareth Osborne said, “I am delighted to see CIPD taking this stance and promoting staffing as one of the key factors of business planning. In 1988, at a then Training Agency conference, I coined the phrase ‘Staff Flow Forecasting’ in an attempt to get businesses to recognise the importance of their future staffing needs. Strategic planners have focused on cash flow alone for far too long and without the recognition that staffing; which accounts for at least 50% of the operational overhead of most businesses, must be planned and managed just as meticulously. It’s all very well to plan for long term growth but if you can’t get the correctly skilled staff; at a price the business can afford, to gain, process and account for the orders then strategic plans will never be achieved.”
“PAs should work with their HR departments to access this report and refer it to their Bosses.”
APA
Workforce planning – defined as ensuring the people resources are in place to deliver short and long-term organisation objectives - should be a core process of HR in order to help build sustainable organisation performance. This is the view of a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) guide, Workforce Planning: Right People, Right Time, Right Skills, which demonstrates how organisations can deliver the business plan through its people.
CIPD research shows that too many organisations are neglecting to plan for the future. This year's Resourcing and Talent Planning survey shows most organisations carry out workforce planning for the next 1-2 years (41%), with a fifth planning less than one year in advance (20%). Responding to these concerns, the guide urges organisations to look beyond short-term budgetary planning to the longer term needs of the organisation for sustained performance.
APA Director General Gareth Osborne said, “I am delighted to see CIPD taking this stance and promoting staffing as one of the key factors of business planning. In 1988, at a then Training Agency conference, I coined the phrase ‘Staff Flow Forecasting’ in an attempt to get businesses to recognise the importance of their future staffing needs. Strategic planners have focused on cash flow alone for far too long and without the recognition that staffing; which accounts for at least 50% of the operational overhead of most businesses, must be planned and managed just as meticulously. It’s all very well to plan for long term growth but if you can’t get the correctly skilled staff; at a price the business can afford, to gain, process and account for the orders then strategic plans will never be achieved.”
“PAs should work with their HR departments to access this report and refer it to their Bosses.”
APA
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