Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning : Methods and Applications

1 Corporate Manpower Planning -- Interpretations of Corporate Manpower Planning -- Importance of Manpower Planning -- Manpower Planning and Its Relation to Corporate Planning -- The Multicategory Approach to Manpower Planning -- Typologies of Organizations with Respect to Manpower Planning -- Goals and Restrictions of This Book -- 2 Manpower Requirement Forecasting -- Statistical Techniques for Personnel Demand Forecasting -- Subjective Methods for Manpower Requirement Forecasting -- The Practice of Manpower Requirement Forecasting -- Manpower Requirement Forecasting Procedure -- 3 Manpower Availability Forecasting -- Mathematical Models for Manpower Availability Forecasting -- Discussion of the Models -- Recommended Models for Manpower Planning -- Manpower Planning Systems -- 4 FORMASY: An Interactive Manpower Planning System -- FORMASY -- Examples of FORMASY Models -- Options of the FORMASY System -- Estimation of Transition Fractions -- Computational Efficiency of FORMASY -- Usefulness of FORMASY -- 5 The Use of FORMASY -- The Matching Process and FORMASY -- Applications of FORMASY in Designing Career and Recruitment Policies -- Level of Aggregation -- Planning Horizon -- Requirements for Personnel Registration -- Requirements for the Personnel Department -- Concluding Remarks -- 6 A Case Study -- Manpower Planning within the Royal Netherlands Air Force -- Model Structure -- Long-Term Planning -- Medium-Term Planning -- Short-Term Planning -- Detailed Planning -- Summary -- References.