Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning, Second Edition

Staffing Strategies

As stated previously, staffing strategies are long-term, directional plans that describe what will be done over the course of the organization’s planning horizon to address critical staffing issues. Therefore, staffing strategies usually span several planning periods (e.g., all three years of a three-year business strategy); they are not developed for each planning period individually. Staffing strategies should be specific enough to describe how staffing needs are to be met, but not so specific that they describe individual staffing needs or actions. “Promote from within” is an example of a simple staffing strategy. It describes, in directional terms, the approach that an organization will take to meet certain staffing needs, ...