Workforce Planning

Catalog description

Students in this class will master the basic concepts, theories, and skills of workforce planning. Workforce planning is a critical human resource function and practice about winning the “war for talent” in today’s workplace. This course will address issues of attracting, staffing, and retaining a high valued and productive workforce. Succession planning is a key concept to be examined as well. Other topics to be addressed in this course include aligning business and staffing needs; retirement and turnover; and developing competency models and the use of these models for staff development. The course will focus on case studies, scenarios, problem resolution, readings, and research. Spanish language learners may complete this course in Spanish.