Workforce management

Under manpower planning (PEP ) refers to the rational allocation of the different employees to the positions ( appropriate to their skills profile and the demands of the job ) and the otherwise establishment of free or freed capacity, movement of qualified employees and restructuring of departments.

Task of planning of human resources, the distribution of current employees on the various jobs, taking into account the quantitative, temporal and spatial requirements of the enterprise, and the interests and inclinations of the people.

Must be distinguished from the person Aldi position to establish the short-term ( daily or hourly ) balance between desired and actual personnel.

Problems of manpower planning are optimization problems and the operations research associate. They can therefore also deal with the usual solution methods of Operations Research. Many problems of personnel scheduling can be specially formulated as linear optimization problems.

Newer approaches to understand the manpower planning as a strategic tool for optimization of economic processes in businesses and government agencies. A central role is played by the flexibility of working hours, so that they can be synchronized with a fluctuating staffing needs. Since these issues of working time management are closely linked with further economic problems, such as a fluctuating order situation or labor legislation, bind modern approaches to workforce planning in a larger context with a. Under the slogan Workforce Productivity methods are discussed, such processes can be staff planning with other administrative and management tasks, for example in the areas of order planning or building security, efficiently link.

Furthermore, the staff planning a component of workforce management, value These include, in addition to the manpower planning and prognosis of the expected workload and the need for staff, optimization of human resources in order to avoid under- and over-coverage, the administration of different time accounts in time Management and the analysis and control of the entire workforce management process. In contrast to the traditional workforce management, a management of time is in the past and the future because of their anchoring in Time Management, Work Force Management looks at the changes in planning requirements and objectives: demand orientation and optimization are the core elements of modern workforce management solutions. It 's no longer just about the distribution of work shifts to the existing staff, but the flexible, focused on the current demand planning, taking into account demand-driven or seasonal fluctuations, current customers, sales or transaction figures or other economic considerations. The business objectives of workforce management lie in the staff to cut costs by optimizing both clear as well as to improve employee satisfaction, increase productivity and better service to achieve more sales.