Is there a link between workforce planning and strategic planning? How

Dear Darshana,

I think competence and efficient workforce is the prime prerequisite for an organisation for any kind of activity. Workforce  planning starts with stategic planning itself. rather, I would say sometime before also because competend and skillful staff always gives top management confidence while searching new avenues and facing challenges in this highly competitive corporate world.

It a very important issue for present bussiness environment in Indian context. Now organisations should look to plan more agressively for recruiting proper talent for proper job and more important retaining it.I congratulate you for raising this issue.

Thanks

The linkage between the workforce planning and strategic planning is like brain to the head and strength to the body.

Strategic planning happens at an organisational level on turnover, profits, market segmentations, channel distribution, procurement, competition in mind for advertising and publicity, process development, infrastructure etc. [sales, admn, networks, it, ites depts].

As workforce planning involves abundance of support  to the manpower. It involves a series of seasonal, periodical, timely activities to do with Planning, Providing and Protecting the manpower and its resources (i.e., recruitment to retentional strategies, policies & promotions)   [Hr, Service, FoS depts]

Yes,

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Workforce planning is one of important ingradient of strategic planning. Workforce planning is a part of resource planning with out which strategic planning is incomplete.

If we see the overall business development theories of "7 - S Mckinsey" and "Business Excellence Model" we can see that human resource is one of the major criteria.

7 - S therories says Strategic Goals and Objective, Management Style, System, Skill management are critical part of any business. Workforce planning according to need of business is the most essential part of the business growth, therefore workforce plaaning is directly linked to strategic planning.

Yes, very surely theirs a link between workforce planning and Strategic planning...

Strategic planning is done with a long term objective in mind about the Growth of company and the Strategies to achieve that Groth or set goals and...

Workforce planning is a Part of Strategic planning done for achieveing the set targets...

For e.g.: A company is planning a New Branch office in a Different Market so Planning for the Customer Identification, Market penetration, Satisfaction as well Increasing Business in respective area comes under strategic planning which is at Macro Level.....

and Workforce planning is planning for the Identification, selection and putting up right person for thr job even the number od personnel is a workforce planning.. It also siometimes Include Job Selection criteria, Profile designing, setting up KRA  and many other HR related activities... and is at micro Level....

So Strategic planning is a long term thing compared to Workforce planning and has direct relation to the growth of the Business.. and workforce planning is at micro level....

The same Example can be put up for a manufacturing organisation....

Yes, there is clearly a link between these two planning efforts. As part of the organization's initiative, administrative departments are in the process of developing strategic plans. Inherent to this effort is the need to consider the human resource implications of your strategic thinking and planning. With any strategic plan or objective, there is typically a human resource component that merits consideration. Departments are likely to achieve the most meaningful results from their planning efforts when there is alignment between their strategic and workforce plans.