Workforce Planning Report, Reflective Writing, PDP - Semester 1

This assignment comprises a report, reflective writing, and a personal development plan (PDP) focused on workforce planning. The report analyzes workforce planning, its positive impacts (improved recruitment, future readiness, and workforce variance examination) and negative effects (high expenses, uncertainty, and potential for hindering productivity). The reflective writing section details the student's learning from the module, emphasizing the importance of analytical, rational, and problem-solving skills in workforce planning, as well as academic skills. The PDP outlines actions for improving communication, stress management, and time management skills, connecting them to future career goals in workforce planning and talent management. The report concludes that workforce planning is a critical business issue, with both positive and negative aspects. The assignment highlights the importance of academic skills and their application in a practical context.

Workforce planning
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Part 1- Report...................................................................................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................3
Positive Effects of Adapting to workforce planning...................................................................3
Negative Effects of Adapting to workforce planning.................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................5
PART 2- Reflective Writing............................................................................................................6
What have you learnt from the module.......................................................................................6
Why the learning may be important............................................................................................6
Benefits and future implications.................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................7
PART 3- Personal Development Plan (PDP)...................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Workforce planning is all about predicting and ascertaining future job vacancies that need
to be fill up in future course to have competed needed workforce. Workforce planning is
necessary to be consider to find and sustenance enough staff quantity that has job possession and
right value and skills to deliver high quality performance. The foremost aim of workforce
planning in an organisation is relates to reduce attrition rate, improve productivity and work
production by recognising the applicable plan of action for centred people development.
Consequently, pursuing study demonstrates the business issue of workforce planning in an
organisation which is covered in the report part, second part lighten up the reflective writing in
which what student has learnt in following report is covered. Nevertheless, following study also
prepare a personal development plan for the acquired skills.
Part 1- Report
Introduction
People working in an organisation is consider to be the essential resource of a company,
therefore to reach strategically business goals an organisation need adequate staff force which
can be acquired by the workforce strategically planning to meet current and future talent need.
Workforce planning is necessary because current employee are not afraid to left their current job
position for acquiring a better job that meet their career objective and aspiration. Centred on the
short term intuitive is consider to be the core reason behind the high attrition rate of a
organisation this issue rise due to making strategically business decisions without adhering
employee data (Asamani, Christmals and Reitsma, 2021).
Positive Effects of Adapting to workforce planning
Workforce planning adopted in a firm to forecast and predict staff demand and supply to
fill up current and future vacant job positions. There are many positive implications of adopting
workforce planning like it prepare a firm to be future ready by have competent working people.
this is because when firm has strategic workforce planning it can establish important metric
standard that will communicate an administrator about the workforce issue and provide them
with essential tools to determine talent risk in earlier stage as it can impact organisation's
objectives. Moreover, another positive implication of workforce planning is relates to improve
recruitment life-cycle as manager in recruitment life-cycle adopts knowledge from current
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employees skills which would help recruiter to place good and competent employee in the vacant
post. Therefore, it improve recruitment process and employee turnover ratio. Another positive
side of adopting workforce planning is relates to the examining workforce variance, this is
because many times it is being hard for a company to realise that they have gap in their
workforce planning (Desselle and and et. al, 2018). Therefore, it is the workforce planning
practice that helps the manager to answer future circumstances questions relates to whom to hire
and what core skills one should inherited to be best fit for the vacant job. An effective adoption
of the workforce planning is act as the guidance for the company to predict and select best talent
including employee retention factor and identifying skills gap and support Human resource
budget of the firm. Also, when decently used, workforce planning can support business to
determine and judge issues at early stage which help to avoid interruption and unpredicted costs.
Negative Effects of Adapting to workforce planning
Yet, workforce planning leverages so many benefits but it also have pity-full drawback
which are a concern for talent management department. One of the primary negative impact of
adopting workforce planning is related to the high expanses and more time need to be invested in
workforce planning. Moreover, when a firm adopt workforce planning there are still uncertainty
regards to the stability of the employee whom firm invest a lot in training and development
process for long term utilisation. Also, a deficiency of clearness about workforce staffing
program defrayal to employee belief clad about company decision-making, which can further
lead to poor employee engagement. However, it has been observed that when workforce
planning application are not adopted in proper manner it can stunt company growth because it
cost time and money to replace an employee (Asamani, Christmals and Reitsma, 2021).
Workforce planning can abstract current productivity of the company as the company is focusing
on the future predication while compromising the current workforce competence which needed
to be developed to retain them for longer course duration. However, workforce planning is not
suitable for some organisation which outsource their some work to other party like, many
Amazon outsource its customer support work to Teleperformance and accounting function to the
Genpect. In workforce planning, current employee terminated and fired due to not having a
competent skills which would result in low team work and collaboration and also sustain
innovation growth as with a broken team it is hard to adopt innovation in organisation working.
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Conclusion
As per the carried out discussion it has been found that workforce planning is a critical
business issue when it is not properly utilised by the talent management department and linked
with the HR manager roles. However, it has been found that adopting workforce planning have
both positive and negative implications every coin always two faces. Positive significance of
having workforce planning aids helps in employee retention, engagement and development to
anticipate with current and future need of the staffs (Sparkman, 2018). Also, sound workforce
planning helps administrator to notice workforce issue at early stage so necessary step can be
follow up to eliminate staff gap.
Positive things often comes with a negative hidden faces, in adopting workforce planning
there is total uncertainty whether the employee would be retain for longer duration, therefore it
cause firm has high labour turnover and total waste of time and money spend on hiring employee
to fill up vacant job position. Moreover, when a firm failed to utilise workforce planning in
proper manner, it will resulted in talent deficits that caused an incompetence to meet business
purposes.
References
Asamani, J. A., Christmals, C.D. and Reitsma, G. M., 2021. The needs-based health workforce
planning method: a systematic scoping review of analytical applications. Health Policy
and Planning.
Desselle, S.P and and et. al, 2018. Pharmacy technician self-efficacies: Insight to aid future
education, staff development, and workforce planning. Research in Social and
Administrative Pharmacy. 14(6). pp.581-588.
Sparkman, R., 2018. Strategic workforce planning: Developing optimized talent strategies for
future growth. Kogan Page Publishers.
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PART 2- Reflective Writing
What have you learnt from the module
As per the study of the module I have learnt that academic skills are necessary for a student to
counterpart future business issues. However, in workforce planning, I have learnt that to forecast
current and future need of the competency workforce, a manager need to have good analytical,
rational and problem solving skills along with a vision to thought for a future course of action
(Salminen and et.al., 2018). However, academic skills are necessary to be given equal weightage
in career development viewpoint of a student like me because though academic skills
development of stress and analytical solving I can challenge myself to perform workforce
planning of the sports industry where I am looking to build career in. Other than this, I have
learnt from the study of the given module about the use of Harvard referencing cite to give
justice and weightage to the respective author in academic and research writing. Moreover, IT
skills and communication skills are necessary to perform strategically function of the
organisation.
Why the learning may be important
The new learning of the workforce planning is consider to be importance for a student to perform
strategic functions of the talent management department with aim to build more engage,
innovative, productive and retaining team to meet business purposes. Moreover, in workforce
planning, a individual develop its stress management, time management, analytical skills to
counter future challenges and issue in respect to the workforce planning. Also study of the
workforce planning is all about evaluating HR practices which one posses with certain
knowledge and life experience (Rasheed and et.al, 2020). Therefore, though workforce planning
and anticipating HR practices and role in forecasting talent, it help firm to succeed in its business
objectives. Moreover, development of the communication skills and tactics help in performing
any given role so that one can present its thoughts and opinion. Time management help in doing
the right thing in right time which is basic consider to be the basic principle of workforce
planning.
Benefits and future implications
The stress management, time management, communication and problem solving skills builds a
individual with having all the armoury tools in its armour to face future challenges regards to
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workforce planning and its management. However, to be success ready career one need to learn
this skills in its academic course duration for the future implication. Apart from that the skills are
necessary in future to anticipate with the staff gap be analysing the required number with given
set of skills and latent which employer wants to see in its future hiring (Kaur, 2018). Moreover,
the study of the module help to gain theoretical knowledge and understanding about the
importance of academic skills which are necessary for a job ready career. Also, the skills learnt
in the course can be included in the personal plan development so that one can access its core
competency and gap to forecast future needed skills that need to acquire.
References
Kaur, A., 2018. Academic and Functional Skills Development in Inclusive setting. International
Journal of Research in Social Sciences. 8(3). pp.694-699.
Rasheed, D.S., and et.al., 2020. The Effect of Teacher–Child Race/Ethnicity Matching and
Classroom Diversity on Children's Socioemotional and Academic Skills. Child
development. 91(3). pp.e597-e618.
Salminen, J.,and et.al., 2018. Development of pre-academic skills and motivation in
kindergarten: a subgroup analysis between classroom quality profiles. Research papers
in education. 33(4). pp.515-543.
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PART 3- Personal Development Plan (PDP)
Academic
Skill
Action Future
Implications
(Identify
topics of
learning from
module)
Detail how you plan on improving the skill
e.g. reading more on the topic, attending a
separate training course etc.
Once the skill has been developed, how do you
hope to use the skill both in your academic and
career plans.
Communicatio
n skills
Participating in the various seminars and
debates competition to learn more about
the communication skills. Even more,
attending the study of the module to gain
the theoretical knowledge about how to
build effective communication skills
With the developed communication skills It help
in better delivering better presentation which is
both necessary at the academic and career.
Moreover, though communication skills, one
should can present its opinion and thoughts
about various subject matter relates to the
business decision making.
Stress
management
skills
Meditation and accepting that not all things
are favourable to anyone.
It help one to be positive in every kind of
situation with aim to sidestep the adverse
situation with calmness and with patience..
Time
management
skills
By scheduling some boundary and avoiding
distraction, some tech help is being taken in
form of reminder for the prioritise activities.
Time management help in to be better task
oriented leader and do right things in right time
to get favourable results because stitch in time
save as nine.
Creative
writing skills
Learnt from studying of various journals
article and study of the module relates to
the research writing.
To write a journal or a report about the work and
prepare a project plan report. To make a research
report on the given area and problem.
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CONCLUSION
As per the carried out study it has been concluded that workforce planning is a sever
issue in an organisation to meet current and future demand and supply of the required staffs.
Following report summarise that workforce planning may be count as the both positive and
negative issue in accordance of the business operations. Moreover, following report proposed the
reflective journal writing in what skills are learnt and acquire during study of module is observed
along with preparing a personal development plan that help one to be job ready with the acquired
and learnt skills through academic study.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Karl, J.A., Fischer, R. and Jose, P.E., 2021. The Development of Mindfulness in Young Adults:
the Relationship of Personality, Reinforcement Sensitivity, and
Mindfulness. Mindfulness, pp.1-12.
Neneh, B.N., 2019. From entrepreneurial intentions to behavior: The role of anticipated regret
and proactive personality. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 112, pp.311-324.
Utami, K.H.D., 2021. English for Personality Development, A MPK Course. PT. RajaGrafindo
Persada.
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