African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4194

Full Length Research Paper

An approach to structuring and conducting workforce planning projects

  Daniel Pacheco Lacerda1*, Heitor Mansur Caul liraux2, Thaís Spiegel2 and Secundino Luis Henrique Corcini Neto1        
  1Production and Systems Engineering – PPGEPS | UNISINOS, Research Group on Modeling for Learning – GMAP | UNISINOS, Unisinos University, Brazil. 2Industrial Engineering Department and Production Engineering Program, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 27 February 2013
  •  Published: 31 March 2013

Abstract

 

Building on a study of quantitative and qualitative approaches to workforce planning, a structure and a set of steps are proposed for conducting workforce planning projects in organizations. This approach contemplates four styles of governance applicable to a workforce planning project and the combinations (centralized or decentralized) to be used in the process of reaching decisions in the various difference organizational units. Its structure also comprises the sequencing necessary for workforce planning, as well as the various elements that make up each of the steps. Lastly, its application leads to the systematic construction of an information base that can contribute to enhancing the assertiveness of workforce planning decision making.

 

Key words: Workforce planning, approach, human resource.

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