Strategic Workforce Planning

Abstract

Abstract Part of the SIOP Professional Practice Series, this volume provides an overview of Strategic Workforce Planning: Best Practices and Emerging Directions. The authors make the case for how industrial-organizational psychologists have delivered value to many components of strategic workforce planning (SWP) and can also address the practice in its entirety. Contributors share case examples and experience-based insights spanning the evolution of SWP; best practices for SWP analytics and consulting; maturity models; how SWP can be practiced in large companies inside and outside the United States, in high and low growth environments; and when to organize around planning for future tasks versus planning for future roles. Other contributors address SWP in terms of scenario planning, diversity and inclusion, social network analysis techniques, artificial intelligence, multicompany collaboration around SWP during the pandemic, and teaching strategic workforce planning at the graduate level. The authors also look at strategic workforce planning trends and urge practitioners and academics alike to think broadly about how this practice can improve organizations and the larger talent ecosystem.