Strategic Workforce Planning

Marc B. Sokol, PhD, is President of Sage Consulting Resources. He has worked in large and small firms, in the public and private sectors, in both internal and external roles, across 25 countries, as an expatriate executive, and now leads his own firm. Beverly A. Tarulli, PhD, is Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, leading the human capital analytics and technology master's degree program. She is also the founder and president of Novius Consulting.

Foreword

Introduction: Strategic Workforce Planning: Embracing Best Practices while Reimagining our Potential
Marc Sokol and Beverly Tarulli

Chapter 1: Strategic Workforce Planning: How Can Our Legacy Frame the Future?
Dan L. Ward

Chapter 2: A Practitioner's Guide to Maturing Strategic Workforce Planning in Your Organization
Tanya Moore

Chapter 3: Practitioners' Perspectives on Operationalizing Strategic Workforce Planning: Data, Analytics and Beyond
Sheri L. Feinzig

Chapter 4: Strategic Workforce Planning in the U.S. Federal Government
Laura Knowles and Samantha Adrignola

Chapter 5: The History of the Workforce at Saudi Aramco: Opportunities for I/O Psychology
Christian Hobson and Paul van Katwyk

Chapter 6: Agile Workforce Planning
Adam Gibson and Nicola Oldroyd

Chapter 7: Strategic Workforce Planning for Growth: Strategies and Technology for Multispeed Growth
James D. Eyring, Andrew P. Newmark, and Sunil Setlur

Chapter 8: Enabling Strategic Workforce Planning Through Skills, Artificial Intelligence, and Internal Talent Marketplace
Brian Heger

Chapter 9: Strategic Work-Task Planning
David Creelman, Alexis Fink, and David Ulrich

Chapter 10: The Job as Work Role and Profession: It's More Than Skills
Andrea Fischbach and Benjamin Schneider

Chapter 11: Beyond the Theory: Adaptive Workforce Planning Approaches that Are Business-Led
Adam McKinnon and Kanella Salapatas

Chapter 12: The X-Factor in Strategic Workforce Planning: For CEOs, Context Is King
David Reimer and Adam Bryant

Chapter 13: Scenario Planning: The Secret Sauce to Making Strategic Workforce Planning Agile
Edie Goldberg

Chapter 14: Moving Mountains: Stamina and Resistance in Just Workforce Planning
Juliet R. Aiken and Tori Glascock

Chapter 15: Zero Hour for Jobs: How One Company Helped Others Adapt Their SWP When Covid Roiled the Planet, and Learned to Adapt Itself
Michael Nicholas Bazigos

Chapter 16: Teaching Strategic Workforce Planning: Hit the Ground Running
Steve Weingarden, Nikita Arun, Juliet R. Aiken

Conclusion: A Call to Action for Rethinking Workforce Planning
Beverly Tarulli and Marc Sokol