BSBHRM614-Contribute to strategic workforce planning

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to development, implementation and maintenance of a strategic approach to workforce planning in an organization ensuring that there is the structure and staff in place to meet current and foreseeable organizational objectives.

The unit applies to individuals employed as human resource practitioners with knowledge of human resources and organizational objectives.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Unit Sector

Technical Skills – Human Resources

Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Research planning requirements

1.1 Analyze strategic plans to determine strategic workforce direction, objectives and targets

1.2 Analyze organizational environment and identify emerging practices and trends that may impact on human resource management in the organization

1.3 Identify future labor needs, skill requirements and sources of labor supply

1.4 Identify new technology and its impact on job roles and job design

1.5 Review recent and potential changes to industrial and legal requirements

2. Contribute to development of strategic workforce plan

2.1 Consult relevant managers about their workforce preferences

2.2 Agree on workforce philosophies, values and policies with relevant managers

2.3 Develop strategic objectives and targets for workforce services

2.4 Examine options for the provision of workforce services and analyse costs and benefits

2.5 Identify appropriate technology and systems to support agreed workforce programs and practices

2.6 Contribute input from consultation into strategic workforce plan and obtain senior management support for plan

2.7 Analyze risks associated with strategic workforce plan and develop risk mitigation strategies

3. Support implementation of strategic workforce plan

3.1 Work with relevant stakeholders and ensure that plan is implemented according to organizational objectives

3.2 Monitor and review the plan

3.3 Recommend adaptions to plan to account for changing circumstances

3.4 Evaluate and review performance against plan objectives

Unit Mapping Information

Supersedes and is equivalent to BSBHRM602 Manage human resources strategic planning.

This version first released with BSB Business Services Training Package Version 1.0

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

• Contribute to the development and implementation of at least one strategic workforce plan.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

Analyze information from a range of internal and external sources to determine:

• workforce strategic direction, objectives and targets
• Trends and emerging practices that may have an impact on workforce
• Relevant technology
• Recent and potential changes to industrial and legal requirements
• Future labor needs and skills requirements
• Options for sourcing labor
• Organization's preferences regarding workforce
• Consult relevant stakeholders and collaboratively develop, implement, monitor and review a strategic workforce plan including:
• Budget
• Priorities
• Agreed objectives, targets, programs and practices based on cost-benefit analysis
• Timeframes
• Risk management
• Evaluation against objectives.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

• Human resource practices and functions
• Relevant legislative, regulatory and industrial requirements for the organization
• Common options for sourcing labor
• Impact of technology on job roles in the organization or work area
• Options for sourcing labor supply
• Risk management plans to support the strategic workforce planning
• Format and features of a strategic workforce plan
• Modern philosophies, values and policies applicable to the human resources profession.

Assessment Conditions

Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.

This includes access to:

• Workplace documents and resources relevant to performance evidence
• Relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice
• Business strategic and operational plan
• relevant workplace policies and procedures.
• Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

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