Workforce Planning and Employee Development
Description
Includes workforce planning; avoiding precarious employment; responsible entrenchment; employee lifecycle aligned with sustainability; feedback and performance management; career planning; opportunities for capacity building and personal development; and building sustainability-related competencies.
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Getting Started Guide
Workforce Planning and Employee Development: A Getting Started Guide
Businesses need to ensure that they have the right workers with the right skills in place to successfully deliver on their corporate and sustainability goals. They need to anticipate their future workforce needs and put in place a strong talent development strategy to address any skills gaps in a shifting labour market. Anchored in research, our Workforce Planning and Employee Development: A Getting Started Guide aims to support your company as it begins or revisits a talent management and development strategy. It helps build a foundational understanding of the issue and provides clarity on the work ahead.
Workforce Planning
The Future of Jobs Report 2025
This comprehensive insight report from the World Economic Forum can help you to understand how key macrotrends are expected to impact jobs and skills in the near future, as well as the workforce transformation strategies that employers plan to implement in response. Bringing together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers, the report examines the global labour market landscape in 2025; drivers of labour-market transformation, including technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts, and the green transition; the jobs outlook, including total job growth and loss and the expected impact of macrotrends on employment; the skills outlook, including expected disruptions to skills, drivers of skill disruption, and reskilling and upskilling strategies; workforce strategies; and region, economy, and industry insights.
Managing Retrenchment
Good Practice Note: Managing Retrenchment
This good practice note from the International Finance Corporation can help you to develop a retrenchment plan to better plan for and manage significant job losses. It makes the case for getting retrenchment right; highlights key steps in planning and managing retrenchment; explains the importance of consultation, both on the development and implementation of retrenchment plans; and more. This resource will be especially beneficial to managers, senior leaders, and HR professionals.
Understanding Precarious Work
Breaking Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low Paying Work
This guide from the OECD can help you to understand the links been informal employment and low wages. It highlights key disparities and concerns that leave workers increasingly vulnerable, such as the scarcity of opportunities to transition between formal and informal employment and the scarcity of opportunities to upgrade their skills and transition to formal jobs. While focused on policy solutions, this guide offers an important overview of the issue and helps set the stage for understanding the implications of informal and precarious work.
Understanding the Need for Employee Development
Upskilling for Shared Prosperity
This report from the World Economic Forum and PwC is a call to action for wide-scale upskilling. It provides a quantitative analysis of the impact upskilling can have on economic growth. The research is complemented by a qualitative analysis that looks at the need for new economic thinking underpinned by the development of good jobs – work that is safe, paid fairly, reasonably secure and motivating, and which emphasises the uniquely human skills and traits of workers to deliver higher levels of productivity.
Taking Action for Employee Development
Skill Strategies for a Sustainable World of Work: A guide for Chief Human Resources Officers
This guide from WBCSD was created to inform and inspire CHROs and HR decision makers that are setting out on the skills development journey. It presents a wide range of effective and appropriate forward-looking skills strategies and pipelines, leveraging interviews with senior professionals and solutions from organisations around the world.
Understanding Sustainability Competencies
Competencies for Advancing Transformations Towards Sustainability
This table by Redman, A. & Wiek, A. (2021) provides a quick overview of a framework of key competencies needed to push for sustainability across various disciplines. The associated article, "Competencies for Advancing Transformations Towards Sustainability," offers insights in more depth.
