BSBHRM513 Manage workforce planning

Release: 1

BSBHRM513 Manage workforce planning

Modification History

Release	Comments
Release 1	This version first released with BSB Business Services Training Package Version 1.0.

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to manage planning in relation to an organisation’s workforce including researching requirements, developing objectives and strategies, implementing initiatives and monitoring and evaluating trends.

It applies to individuals who are human resource managers or staff members with a role in a policy or planning unit that focuses on workforce planning.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Unit Sector

Workforce Development – Human Resource Management

Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENT	PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1 Research workforce requirements	1.1 Review current data on staff turnover and demographics 1.2 Assess factors that may affect workforce supply 1.3 Establish the organisation’s requirements for a skilled and diverse workforce
2 Develop workforce objectives and strategies	2.1 Review organisational strategy and establish aligned objectives for modification or retention of the workforce 2.2 Consider strategies to address unacceptable staff turnover, if required 2.3 Define objectives to retain required skilled labour 2.4 Define objectives for workforce diversity and cross-cultural management 2.5 Define strategies to source skilled labour 2.6 Communicate objectives and rationale to relevant stakeholders 2.7 Obtain agreement and endorsement for objectives and establish targets 2.8 Develop contingency plans to cope with extreme situations
3 Implement initiatives to support workforce planning objectives	3.1 Implement action to support agreed objectives for recruitment, training, redeployment and redundancy 3.2 Develop and implement strategies to assist workforce to deal with organisational change 3.3 Develop and implement strategies to assist in meeting the organisation’s workforce diversity goals 3.4 Implement succession planning system to ensure desirable workers are developed and retained 3.5 Implement programs to ensure workplace is an employer of choice
4 Monitor and evaluate workforce trends	4.1 Review workforce plan against patterns in exiting employee and workforce changes 4.2 Monitor labour supply trends for areas of over or undersupply in the external environment 4.3 Monitor effects of labour trends on demand for labour 4.4 Survey organisational climate to gauge worker satisfaction 4.5 Refine objectives and strategies in response to internal and external changes and make recommendations in response to global trends and incidents 4.6 Regularly review government policy on labour demand and supply 4.7 Evaluate effectiveness of change processes against agreed objectives

Foundation Skills

This section describes language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills incorporated in the performance criteria that are required for competent performance.

Skill	Performance Criteria	Description
Reading	1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.6	Interprets and critically analyses organisational strategy and data on staff turnover and demographics
Writing	1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.2, 3.3, 4.5	Uses broad vocabulary, grammatical structure and conventions appropriate to audience and context to develop strategies, plans or reports
Oral communication	2.6, 2.7	Conveys information using language, format and style appropriate to a specific audience
Numeracy	4.2, 4.3, 4.4	Extracts and evaluates the mathematical information and applies mathematical and problem-solving strategies when monitoring labour trends and surveying organisational climate
Navigate the world of work	2.1, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3	Understands and interprets organisational goals r to develop processes, objectives or strategies relevant to own role requirements
Interact with others	2.6, 2.7	Selects and implements appropriate communication protocols to liaise with personnel in a range of work contexts
Get the work done	1.1, 2.1, 2.8, 3.1 -3.5, 4.1- 4.7	Sequences and schedules complex activities, monitors implementation and manages relevant communication when researching requirements and developing workforce objectives and strategies Makes a range of critical and non-critical decisions in relatively complex situations, taking a range of constraints into account when assessing factors affecting workforce supply Anticipates potential problems and uses analytical or lateral thinking processes to formulate contingency plans Uses a range of digital tools to collect data, and to extract, organise and share information

Unit Mapping Information

Code and title current version	Code and title previous version	Comments	Equivalence status
BSBHRM513 Manage workforce planning	BSBHRM513A Manage workforce planning	Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages	Equivalent unit

Links

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