Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning by T

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The updated edition of this invaluable guide- co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management.

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This book shows how to identify staffing needs and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative measures, and presents several effective, nontraditional approaches to strategic staffing.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.HR expert Thomas 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, Strategic Staffing: Second Edition is both enlightening and practical. To help you create your own staffing plans, the companion site has several invaluable tools, including:PowerPoint(TM) slide presentationsCustomizable Excel(TM) spreadsheetsAssessment and evaluation formsCalculations and analysesSample staffing plansIntegrating a strategic approach to staffing can result in reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. Strategic Staffing: Second Edition is a detailed, process-oriented guide that offers all the tools staffing professionals need.

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The problem with most staffing plans is that they look a lot better on paper than in the real world of your business. Human resources professionals and even line managers and department heads often plot out hiring initiatives without regard for the company's business goals. Staffing can't be done in a vacuum; there is no one-size-fits-all plan to magically drive business outcomes. But what if your company's workforce planning strategy could practically guarantee greater efficiency, reduced turnover, lower staffing costs, and long-term growth? Introducing the second edition of Tom Bechet's Strategic Staffing , the only book that offers not just general ideas but real, quantifiable approaches for aligning your workforce plan

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Most organizations state some version of the philosophy that "our people are our most important asset." But surprisingly few companies actually incorporate strategy into their staffing initiatives, or vice versa. Given that organizations are the sums of their people, a company whose business strategy does not view workforce planning as a direct driver of success is merely paying lip service to a tired mantra. Worse, that company is likely wasting a lot of money, time, and effort on staffing initiatives that focus on filling positions instead of complementing business objectives. Strategic Staffing presents a proven, repeatable, start-to-finish system for transforming the way your company identifies and meets its staffing needs. This is not a book about how to put great talent in specific jobs, but rather a comprehensive guide to designing integral talent strategies that are part and parcel of how your company makes money. Staffing is not just hiring peop≤ it's anything that relates to getting people into, around, and/or out of an organization in a planned way. Staff planning then includes hiring, retaining, moving, or letting go employees, or any combination, and by planning your moves in relation to a given period (say, a fiscal year) or a business milestone (e.g., when the Denver office opens), you've taken them out of the HR vacuum and into the dynamic of your business. As you look at potential alignments between business objectives and staffing initiatives, you'll use Bechet's detailed numeric models to figure out exactly how many people you'll need, in what roles, over the course of the initiative, and to determine when and where to fill gaps or eliminate surpluses. His step-by-step examples and the finished, specific staffing plans that result offer eye-opening proof that "people issues" can (and must) be quantified. Project summaries and three detailed case studies illustrate how real organizations developed and used strategic approaches to address their own staffing issues. Remember, developing the right strategic staffing process won't help if that process is implemented incorrectly. The basis for effective implementation is the context in which your workforce planning takes place. Strategic Staffing gives you a detailed framework in which to place and develop staffing initiatives, and a powerful diagnostic sequence with which to determine the ideal implementation for your company's specific needs. You'll also get: A detailed and clear form for evaluating your current staffing processes and finding opportunities to improve or adapt them. Ideas for bringing line managers into the strategic staffing process, and an interview guide for defining staffing issues and requirements. Specific explanations for structuring your human resources department to optimally support strategic staffing. Suggestions for what to include on a strategic staffing website, a powerful resource that employees can access through your company's intranet. Strategic Staffing also has a companion website featuring spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other invaluable tools to use in creating, modifying, implementing, and maintaining your workforce planning strategy. So don't let your company simply "talk the talk" about the value of people. Quantify it, maximize it, and leverage it toward substantial and sustained growth with Strategic Staffing . Thomas P. Bechet is the founder and principal of Bechet Consulting, which helps client companies develop and execute workforce planning strategies. He was previously a partner with the Walker Group and spent eight years with Towers Perrin and its general management consulting division, Cresap. He has served as chairman and as a member of the board of directors of the Professional Development Committee of the Human Resource Planning Society. He teaches in the University of Michigan's Executive Education program.

Long Description

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.

Excerpt from Book

C H A P T E R 1 An Overview of This Book This book describes pragmatic approaches for developing and implementing practical, effective, targeted strategic staffing/workforce planning processes. It includes process descriptions, actual examples and case studies, advice and hints, a series of spreadsheet templates that can actually be used to develop strategic staffing models, and PowerPoint presentations that can be used to communicate (and train others on) the strategic staffing/workforce planning process. Specifically, the book is divided into five sections. Section 1: Setting the Stage Section 1 sets the stage for effective strategic staffing. It provides an overview of the strategic staffing process and its objectives and describes the context in which strategic staffing works best. The section focuses on descriptions of specific nontraditional approaches to strategic staffing/workforce planning that have proved effective in a wide variety of organizations and industries. The section also includes a description of a new ''hybrid'' approach to strategic staffing/workforce planning that combines some aspects of a companywide approach with the focused, targeted process that I strongly advocate. Section 2: Developing the Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process There are many approaches that can be used to organize and structure your strategic staffing/workforce planning efforts. Section 2 describes in detail an effective, practical approach that can be (and has been) implemented effectively in a wide variety of situations. This approach includes: A detailed description of the process itself (creating both long-term staffing strategies and short-term staffing plans) Specific examples of how required staffing levels can be determined (including actual, numeric examples with solutions) A discussion of various techniques that can be used to define useful staffing plans even when specific business plans are not complete or available A complete numerical example of a staffing strategy (and the staffing plans that result) Three detailed, ''real-world'' case studies, each of which describes the issues that an organization was facing and the staffing strategies and plans that the organization developed to address those issues A series of less detailed summaries of projects in which strategic staffing was implemented successfully Section 3: Implementing and Supporting Your Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process Developing the right strategic staffing process won't help if that process is implemented incorrectly. Section 3 describes the context within which strategic staffing is best implemented. It includes: A framework that ensures effective implementation of the process A diagnostic tool that you can use to define the strategic context in which the process will be implemented in your particular situation A form that you can use to evaluate your company's current strategic staffing process and identify opportunities to improve its effectiveness Specific suggestions on how you can engage and involve line managers in the process, including an interview guide that can be used to help identify staffing issues and define staffing requirements A description of what might be included on a strategic staffing web site that could reside on your company's intranet A description of the HR functional structure that best supports strategic staffing/workforce planning (including some of the skills and capabilities the staff will need) Detailed suggestions and notes (almost a script) that you can apply when using the PowerPoint presentations that are available to you on the web site Section 4: Beyond Staffing Plans: Analyzing and Applying the Results One of the key deliverables of the strategic staffing process is a set of very specific staffing plans that should be implemented to address critical staffing needs. There are times, though, when a broader analysis of your results will be needed if you are to select the appropriate course of action. The fourth section of the book describes what those analyses might look like, including: A discussion on how strategic staffing/workforce planning can be used to identify and address the impacts of retirements on your organization A description of how some of the quantitative aspects of workforce planning can be used to strengthen your management succession and development process A case for including workforce planning (''talent planning'') as a mandatory first step in any talent management process Specific suggestions on how to structure strategic staffing/workforce planning processes to support common business initiatives (e.g., opening a ''green field'' site) A description of how workforce planning concepts can be used to define and implement staff reductions more effectively A description of how to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of your staffing practices A discussion of how an analysis of staffing costs can be integrated into your strategic staffing process Appendices The appendices include a number of supporting materials that will help you implement an effective strategic staffing process. Specifically, the appendices include: Frequently asked questions (with answers, of course!) Specific instructions for modifying the generic spreadsheet staffing model templates (made available on the web site when you purchase this book) so that they can be used to support the development of your own staffing models, strategies, and plans Instructions for retrieving the computer files that come with this book. Summary While no approach is foolproof, this book is designed to help you get an effective strategic staffing/workforce planning process up and running quickly and easily. If your organization is not yet creating staffing strategies, these tools will ensure that you will get off on the right foot and avoid many of the pitfalls that other companies have encountered. These tools can also be used to jump-start or improve the effectiveness of an existing strategic staffing process. If you are already developing staffing strategies, the approaches and tools provided in this book will help you improve the quality and effectiveness of your results. In either case, be forewarned: Many of the ideas in this book may differ from what you think strategic staffing/workforce planning is and what you think the process entails. Just read it with an open mind and be ready to consider alternative approaches- approaches that many organizations have found to be realistic and helpful.

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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 CD-ROM is 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.

Details ISBN0814433014 Pages 352 Language English ISBN-10 0814433014 ISBN-13 9780814433010 Media Book Edition 2nd DEWEY 658.301 Short Title STRATEGIC STAFFING 2/E Imprint Amacom Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations Format Paperback Audience Age 18 Subtitle A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning US Release Date 2018-04-20 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-04-20 UK Release Date 2018-04-20 Author Thomas P. BECHET Publisher HarperCollins Focus Edition Description Second Edition Audience General AU Release Date 2019-06-26 NZ Release Date 2019-06-26 We've got this

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