Planning for Manpower Requirements: STAFFPLAN – An Analytical Model

The Asian Development Bank has played a significant role as an important source of development finance in the Asian and Pacific region for the past 20 years. In 1987, a study was approved of the bank′s staffing requirement in the 1990s. A model was developed to provide a basis for exploring a number of demand/supply possibilities and illustrating the relative importance of key factors affecting staffing requirements. The form taken by the number of combinations of the variables involved indicated that the appropriate framework should be a computerised input/output model called STAFFPLAN.