Workforce planning and development processes : a practical guide / Georges Vernez [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vernez, Georges.

Series:

Technical report (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manpower--United States.

Manpower.

United States. Air Force--Personnel management.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 50 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2007.

Summary:

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) develops, acquires, and maintains most Air Force systems and is tailoring its workforce to adapt to changes in technology, weapons, and battlefield requirements. This volume is a practical guide to the main steps in analytical workforce planning and development: determining workforce demand, describing workforce supply, comparing the demand with the supply, and implementing solutions. The authors outline the related policy decisions; describe necessary methods, data, and tools; and recommend divisions of responsibilities among headquarters, business units, and functional managers. These tasks need not cover the entire workforce but should be focused on positions that are central to AFMC's core business units, which would be responsible for actual planning and development. Headquarters AFMC itself would primarily offer guidance, support, and assistance to these units and mediate trade-offs that may need to be made among them. Similarly, functional managers have an advisory role

Contents:

Introduction Determining the demand Describing the supply Comparing the demand with the supply Implementing solutions to meet workforce requirements Conclusions and recommendations Appendix A: Sample worksheets Appendix B: Protocol used to identify elements of change for the AFMC armament enterprise