Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982 Methods and Applications International Series in Management Science Operations Research Series

The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications. Manpower planning, also called personnel plan­ ning, implies the analysis of possible discrepancies in the future between personnel demand and supply. Personnel demand will also be called person­ nel requirement; and personnel supply, personnel availability. The notion of corporate manpower planning refers to the planning of personnel on the level of an industrial or governmental organization. As such, it does not stand for manpower planning for branches of industries or labor market studies of countries or international communities. One type of manpower planning is the planning of short-term succes­ sions of managers or the assignment planning of positions for individual employees for the next year. In fact, this type of short-term manpower plan­ ning is always executed, whether formally or informally, centrally or other­ wise. Another type of manpower planning, however, may be executed to match the requirement for and availability of personnel for the medium and long term. This type of manpower planning considers groups of employees rather than individuals. Our goal is to consider medium- and long-term manpower planning for groups of employees. We call this the multicategory vii Vlll PREFACE approach to manpower planning. In our view, this medium-and long-term personnel planning provides the conditions for individual manpower plan­ ning or for personnel development.

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.