Workforce Planning in Complex Organizations

Abstract

In 2000, the Acquisition Workforce 2005 Task Force of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) called for the development and implementation of needs-based human resource performance plans for Department of Defense (DoD) civilian acquisition workforces. The greater need for workforce planning is expected to arise from an unusually heavy workforce turnover, itself due to a large number of expected retirements among older employees in a workforce that has not hired younger new workers in recent years, as well as from an expected transformation in acquisition products and methods in coming years. The Director of Acquisition Education, Training and Career Development therefore asked the RAND Corporation to assist OSD and other defense organizations in devising methods of workforce planning. The workforce planning process that RAND researchers identified should be of interest to DoD human resource management professionals pondering how to adapt to pending changes in workforce composition, and it is also applicable for other complex organizations outside DoD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427628

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Executives
  • Government Employees
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Human Resources
  • Inventory
  • Inventory Analysis
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Resource Management
  • Task Forces

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design