Strategic workforce planning : best practices and emerging directions

"Strategic workforce planning (SWP)-the process of looking forward, assessing how to compete and win in your chosen market or business arena, and linking those insights to your existing and potential future workforce-is core to any institution that aspires to sustain itself over time. This volume presents best practices and emerging directions from those who embrace these activities. There is often a backstory to a book, whether a set of experiences or a realization that provides the motivation to propose a new volume. We begin with a few of our own stories, as these set the tone for a journey that we hope you, the reader, will join us in"--