Imagine you are HR manager for SXT Electronics a medium size electronics company located in Technology Park, Brisbane an area established by State Ministry to foster growth in technology and innovation. As the emphasis has always been growth and development on research and innovation product marketing, accounting and sales have seen some limitations in their functioning.

As quality delivery requires quality people. Your CEO has advised you to think about a holistic development, implementation and maintenance of a strategic approach to workforce planning in your organisation. She wants to ensure that there is appropriate structure and staff in place to meet current and foreseeable organisational objectives.

Now you need to prepare one Strategic Workforce Plan (report format) focusing on the given organization (you may choose to work on one/two dept or whole organization). Also prepare a presentation on this for your next Managers meeting.

In doing so please ensure you include the following

1. Analyse information from a range of internal and external sources to determine:

• Workforce strategic direction, objectives and targets
• Trends and emerging practices that may have an impact on workforce
• Relevant technology
• Recent and potential changes to industrial and legal requirements
• Future labour needs and skills requirements
• Options for sourcing labour
• Organisations preferences regarding workforce

1. Consult relevant stakeholders and collaboratively develop, implement, monitor and review a strategic workforce plan which comprises the following elements;
2. Budget
3. Priorities
4. Agreed objectives, targets, programs and practices based on cost-benefit analysis
5. Timeframes
6. Risk management
7. Evaluation against objectives.