Meeting Workplace Planning Challenges in the Current Economic Climate

BSB51915
DIPLOMA OF LEADERSHIP &MANAGEMENT
BSBHRM513
MANAGE WORKFORCE PLANNING
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Trainer Name : PRADIP POHKREL/MATHEW THOMAS
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Assessment task 2 - 1500 word essay. Choose an industry.....
MEETING WORKPLACE PLANNING CHALLENGES IN THE CURRENT ECONOMICCLIMATE
INTRODUCTION
Workforce planning is a strategic technique for getting the indication of the future potential of the
organization. The workforce planning can be considered as systematic planning for understanding
the future needs and the scopes for the organization. It helps the organization to meet the long
term and short term business objective. Workforce planning of the organization allows the business
organization to indulge the right people for the right job at right place. It sets up the talent
management and the people strategy for the next 2-3 years. Apart from that it also helps in building
the systematic thinking and ranking the leadership in the organization.
BACKGROUND
In this discussion, I am going to talk about the infrastructure manufacturing and delivery
Industry.
WORKFORCE PLANNING : DEFINITION AND IMPORTANCE, BENEFITS OF WFP
Workforce planning is a term used to describe the planning process undertaken to ensure an
organisation has the right people, with the right skills, at the right time. It is simply a methodical
process that documents the directions in which a work area is heading and provides managers with a
tool for making human resource decisions now and into the future.
WHY DO WORKFORCE PLANNING?
Workforce planning helps an organisation to forecast future conditions and environments, and
allows managers to anticipate change and put strategies in place to ensure the organisation is not
caught out and left ill-equipped to meet the needs of their clients. Workforce planning is a
systematic and strategic approach towards the involvement of the employees in the organization.
The main objective of the workforce planning is to indulge the employees in a right way so that they
can help to achieve the organizational goals. Apart from that the compilation of the work in a right
order can be done through assigning the proper job to the right employee (Wu and Issa 2014).
Understanding the ability of the individual employee and specifying then perfect role for them is one
of the main objectives of the workforce planning. The workforce planning can defined as a part of

the human resource management. The proper work force planning is a framework that will develop
the strategy for proper management of the human resource in the organization.
Improving Key Performance Indicators
There are various significances of maintaining the workforce planning in the organization like
bridging the responsibility of the employees and the organizational goals. The main significance of
the workforce planning is that it provides a tool for the managers and the leaders of the organization
to understand and evaluate the performance of the employees in the organization (Opalek and
Greenberg 2017). Apart from that this framework also indicates the required development in the
recruitment process and talent management in the organization. Through the work force
management the employees in the organization can be evaluated on the basis of the performance
and the required skill development can be done for meeting the dynamic requirements of the
consumers in future.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WORKFORCE PLANNING?
Workforce planning assists with responding to challenges within the equipment and resource
manufacturing sector including addressing the requirements of
Proper planning: One of the key performance indicators is the development of the proper planning
and framework for managing the workforce in the organization. This will help the managers in the
organization to keep the track of the human resource in the organization.
Feedback: Feedback can be considered as the indicator for the improvement of the working
environment of the organization (Burton et al. 2016). The feedback can be taken internally or
externally for the organization. The internal feedback will allow the managers to take the feedbacks
from the employees in for the further development of the working culture. Whereas the managers
can give feedbacks to employees on the basis of their performance and provide proper training for
further improvements.
Identification of the current trends and the analysis of the risks: The workforce planning and
management helps in the finding the current trends and practices regarding the human resource and
the management of the employees in the organization. Apart from that the workforce planning also
indicates the risks involved in the process and the future plan for the mitigation of those risks.
Definition of the business objective: Through the proper workforce planning and management the
definition of the objectives for the organization can be understood more clearly (Buchan et al.
2015). This makes the decision making process for the managers regarding the development and
the expansion of the business.
Implementation of the gap closing strategy: Another significant improvement for the development
of the workforce planning is that it helps to close the gap between the requirements of the
organization and the employee skills in the organization (Hewitt et al. 2015). The gap closing
attribute of the proper work force planning helps the organization to deliver the projects and
services meeting all the requirements of the clients.