Medical‐workforce planning: an art or science? The difficult problem of matching supply and demand
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 20 July 2010
Abstract
Purpose
Illustrates how the NHS workforce‐review team looks at the area of medical workforce planning and some of the problems that planners face.
Design/methodology/approach
Describes a structure for workforce planning and examines some of the challenges workforce planners and those working in the human‐resources field face.
Findings
Argues that workforce planning is more than simply number crunching; it requires the application of both art and science skills.
Practical applications
Demonstrates how the workforce is calculated in terms of the need, demand and supply for the future.
Social implications
Highlights the important advantages, for individual organizations as well as for society as a whole, which can result from successful workforce planning.
Originality/value
Fills a gap in the literature about whether workforce planning is an art or science.
Keywords
Citation
Parsons, D. (2010), "Medical‐workforce planning: an art or science? The difficult problem of matching supply and demand", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 18 No. 5, pp. 36-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670731011060289
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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