Workforce Planning and Development Processes

A Practical Guide

Georges Vernez, Albert A. Robbert, H. G. Massey, Kevin Driscoll

ResearchPublished Mar 1, 2007

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) develops, acquires, and maintains most Air Force systems and is tailoring its workforce to adapt to changes in technology, weapons, and battlefield requirements. This volume is a practical guide to the main steps in analytical workforce planning and development: determining workforce demand, describing workforce supply, comparing the demand with the supply, and implementing solutions. The authors outline the related policy decisions; describe necessary methods, data, and tools; and recommend divisions of responsibilities among headquarters, business units, and functional managers. These tasks need not cover the entire workforce but should be focused on positions that are central to AFMC’s core business units, which would be responsible for actual planning and development. Headquarters AFMC itself would primarily offer guidance, support, and assistance to these units and mediate trade-offs that may need to be made among them. Similarly, functional managers have an advisory role.

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Vernez, Georges, Albert A. Robbert, H. G. Massey, and Kevin Driscoll, Workforce Planning and Development Processes: A Practical Guide. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR408.html. Also available in print form.
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