Workforce Planning: Strategic Analysis and a Personal Development Plan

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of workforce planning, examining its positive and negative effects on companies. It explores how strategic workforce planning can help organizations achieve future goals, decode workforce skills, and decrease costs. The report also addresses potential negative impacts such as untrained employees, less engagement, high turnover, and weak leadership. Additionally, it includes a reflective writing piece on the learning gained from the module, emphasizing the importance of technical, analytical, and communication skills for personal and professional growth. Finally, a personal development plan is outlined, focusing on improving academic skills like time management, communication, teamwork, and technical proficiency, with actionable steps and future implications.

WORKFORCE PLANNING

TABLE OF CONTENT
TASK 1: WORKFORCE PLANNING...........................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Positive effect on companies.......................................................................................................3
Negative effect on companies......................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Reflective writing............................................................................................................................6
Introduction..................................................................................................................................6
Learning gained...........................................................................................................................6
Importance of learning.................................................................................................................6
Future implications......................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN...........................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................8

TASK 1: WORKFORCE PLANNING
INTRODUCTION
Work force planning determine the strategy and work of the organization to achieve the
success of the organization in future and complete their future needs. Workforce planning
analyse the gap between the present work and future workforce planning and implement the
solution for the problem they have in the organization. This report includes the information about
workforce planning which mainly process the change in the organization and engage in the
activity for the betterment of the organization. This also help the companies in long term and
focus on the challenges company faces (Guenole, and Feinzig, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Positive effect on companies
Many companies use strategic workforce planning in their organization which help the
organization in success and reshaping and cost effective (Willis, Cave, and Kunc, 2018).
Implementation of the strategic workforce planning in the organization:

Help in the future goals: - implementing the workforce planning in the organization determine
the strategy for a long term benefit of the organization and analyse their future risk by anticipate
the planing which affect the company.
Decode the workforce skills: - by stimulating the workforce skills it gives benefit to the
organization and allow employee of the organization to understand the need of the organization.
Better skills and qualification of the person who is hire in the organization help in the promotion
of the company by their skills (Momin, and Mishra, 2018).
Evaluate the plan:- for charging the strategy and planning organization should set a benchmark
for this and whatever the risk they measure while doing this planning they should evaluate the
identity measure.
Deceases in cost:- in better workforce planning the cost of the organization will also decrease
with the proper planning and organizing the factor that need to be discusses. If workforce
planning will be perfect therefore organization will get the benefit of the perfect planning. With
this the recruitment process cost of the organization will decrease and this is the positive effect of
the organization by increase the engagement and productivity (Mayo, 2018).
Aligning HR :- the effective process in the organization to aligning the HR of the organization
and the procedure of the strategy business have. The major key factor which include is data
protection and employee assistance, employee benefits etc (Turner, 2017).
the company who uses workforce planning are Nike, Zuora who get effective work by applying
the workforce planning in their organization (Turan, Elsawah, and Ryan, 2019).
Negative effect on companies
Poor workforce planning strategy refer the organization structure, their strategy which neglect
the major part of the organization to cause and harm. Negative effect by the workforce planning
is (Choudhury, 2017).
Untrained employee:- key factor of the organization in workforce planning is to understand the
skills and requires talent for the job for which organization hires the employee. If they hire
untrained and the person who does not have enough skills which a organization wants therefore,
it affects the organization in a negative way (Ansar, and Baloch, 2018).
Less engagement between employee: - this situation occurs when the communication between
the employees of the organization is less and with this the work get affect because of the poor
communication between the management and the employee's.

High turnover:- fail to adopt in the plan that an organization need to develop in the company and
it affects the turnover of the organization (Jaillet, Loke, and Sim ).
Less productive workforce: - in the organization if the employee of the organization are lazy and
not able to perform well in the organization therefore it affects the organization and the
productivity of the company by which it will fall the decrease in profitability of the organization.
Weak leadership:- if the leader of the organization is not enough effected therefore it affects the
employee and the productivity of the organization which impact on the management and
guidance ability. (Jalalvand, Turan, Elsawah, and Ryan, 2020).
Less teamwork:- in the organization if the dispute in the organization is arises therefore, it affect
the organization and it will impact on the efficiency of the organization.
There are a lot of company who follow the workforce planning by which they did not apply the
planning strategy properly for example; Goodyear tire & rubber company (Collings, 2017).
CONCLUSION
The above report summarizes the workforce planning in the organization which describe
the positive effect upon the companies and negative effect upon the companies by applying the
workforce planning in their organization (Sparkman, 2018). The report concludes the key factor
by which the organization will get benefit and the negative factor of the organization by which
companies get disadvantages and lack in their productivity because of using the strategy of
workforce planning.
REFERENCES
Jaillet, P., Loke, G.G. and Sim, M., Strategic Workforce Planning under Uncertainty.
Turan, H.H., Elsawah, S. and Ryan, M.J., 2019, May. Simulation-based analysis of military
workforce planning strategies. In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on
Management Science and Industrial Engineering (pp. 68-75).
Sparkman, R., 2018. Strategic workforce planning: Developing optimized talent strategies for
future growth. Kogan Page Publishers.
Collings, D.G., 2017. Workforce differentiation. The Oxford handbook of talent management.
Turner, P., 2017. Talent management in healthcare: exploring how the world’s health service
organisations attract, manage and develop talent. Springer.
Ansar, N. and Baloch, A., 2018. Talent and talent management: definition and issues. IBT
Journal of Business Studies (IBTJBS), 14(2).
Choudhury, E.H., 2017. Workforce planning in small local governments. Review of Public
Personnel Administration, 27(3), pp.264-280.

Jalalvand, F., Turan, H.H., Elsawah, S. and Ryan, M.J., 2020, December. A Multi-objective
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on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1626-1633). IEEE.
Mayo, A., 2018. Strategic workforce planning–a vital business activity. Strategic HR review.
Momin, W.Y.M. and Mishra, K., 2018. HR analytics as a strategic workforce
planning. International Journal of Applied Research, 1(4), pp.258-260.
Willis, G., Cave, S. and Kunc, M., 2018. Strategic workforce planning in healthcare: A multi-
methodology approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 267(1), pp.250-263.
Guenole, N. and Feinzig, S., 2019. Strategic workforce planning in dynamic business
environments. People & Strategy, 2019(Fall), pp.9-12.
TASK 2
Reflective writing
Introduction
Reflection is known as the practice to reflect upon own actions and decisions so that their
learnings can be incorporated in improving the future actions (Varlejs, 2017). For continuous
professional growth it is vital to reflect upon practices and actions so that gaps can be identified
and overcome.
Learning gained
The completion of module and part 1 gave me valuable insight about the subject as well as
academic concepts. I learned that academic and professional writing is quite different from the
verbal or routine communication methods. I got a chance to understand different concepts such
as plagiarism, reference styles, critical analysis and decision making. For completion of pat 1 I
conducted a research on topic workforce planning. The task was very helpful in making me
understand about the concept of workforce planning and different aspects related to issue. I also
learned that research skill and ability to gather, retrieve, compile and evaluate huge amount of
data into meaningful summary. For this purpose, I also employed communication and technical
skills.
Importance of learning
The learning and acquisition of different types of skills during the assignment and module
has been very helpful for my professional and personal growth. The learning of technical skills
will not only help me in effective use of technology for academic purpose but also in personal
development. Technology is playing an important role in one’s life and have become an integral
part of routine (Özer, Can and Duran, 2020). Thus by learning technological skill I can make my

work more efficient and productive. I also learned analytical and decision making skills in the
module thus in life whenever I will require to make quick and crucial decisions I can use my
developed skill to critically assess the pros and cons of the chosen decision and can act
accordingly. The communication and team work skills developed during the module are helpful
in making my social presence strong. With effective communication I can socialise very easily
with my personal and professional network so that I can interact with people and can enhance my
networking. It will help in gaining more knowledge and to access more opportunities.
Future implications
The knowledge and understanding which I acquired I this course and project completion
will prove to be highly useful for my future academic courses. As I am well aware with the key
terminologies and concepts of academic writing, note taking, reference styles, critical writing
and various academic and professional skills I will be able to successfully complete all my
research work with greater efficiency and time management. For my future university challenges
I will be able to cope up with more creative and sustainable ways of solving problems. In
addition to the academic benefits the skills learned in this module also act as driving force in
preparing me for professional challenges. For instance, professionally I may need to work and
collaborate with different team and may also require to solve complex problems. However,
completion of module tasks demands for great research and team work. It is not possible to
accomplish various tasks without any support or team collaboration. Thus experience to such
work and objectives as prepared me in advance about the challenges which I might encounter in
future in my profession or higher education (Mazzotti and et.al., 2018). The analysis of skill
learned can also serve as the basis for developing plans of professional development such that I
can identify the skills which I lack and can also give emphasis to the skill areas which are my
strengths.
REFERENCES
Mazzotti, V.L. and et.al., 2018. Steps for implementing a state-level professional development
plan for secondary transition. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional
Individuals, 41(1), pp.56-62.
Özer, B., Can, T. and Duran, V., 2020. Development of an Individual Professional Development
Plan Proposal That Is Based on Continuing Professional Development Needs of
Teachers. European Educational Researcher, 3(3), pp.139-172.
Varlejs, J., 2017. Shape your career-design your professional development plan: rationale and
workshop template.

TASK 3
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Academic skill Action Future implication
Time management For improving the time
management, I will try to
make schedules and smaller
deadlines so that I can
gradually adopt the ability to
work in assigned time.
Development of this skill will
be helpful for me in making
me more professional and
efficient in terms of achieving
professional goals (Horton-
Deutsch and Sherwood, 2017).
Communication To improve communication, I
will engage more in social
networks and project so that I
can get more opportunities and
confidence to communicate. I
will also work on my
vocabulary, speaking and
listening skills (Fergusson,
van der Laan and Baker,
2019).
Communication skill is vital
for building social as well as
business connections required
for growth and success. It also
makes problem solving easier.
Team work I will try to have more
informal interaction with team
members and will engage
myself in more group projects.
This skill will make me a good
coordinator as well as leader
so that I can achieve
complicated task with better
leadership and capability
(Drude, Maheu and Hilty,
2019).
Technical skill For improving the technical
skill, I will participate in
different workshops or classes
so that I can get proper
By learning technical skill, I
will be able to deliver more
productive outcomes in my

training of required technical
skills helpful for my
academics.
work and study assignments.
REFERENCES
Drude, K.P., Maheu, M. and Hilty, D.M., 2019. Continuing professional development:
Reflections on a lifelong learning process. Psychiatric Clinics, 42(3), pp.447-461.
Horton-Deutsch, S. and Sherwood, G.D., 2017. Reflective practice: Transforming education and
improving outcomes (Vol. 2). Sigma Theta Tau.
Fergusson, L., van der Laan, L. and Baker, S., 2019. Reflective practice and work-based research:
a description of micro-and macro-reflective cycles. Reflective Practice, 20(2), pp.289-
303.