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Guidelines for the implementation

of workforce planning (WFP)

in project-driven environments

A core activity of human resource
management, facing the huge
challenge of matching the staffi ng
needs in terms of right amount
of skilled workers at the right
moment, so as to make the whole
organization able to deliver a
project within a scope, on time,
and budget

Guido J.L. Micheli, Politecnico di Milano, Workforce planning (WFP) has
School of Management become a crucial part of the
Andrea Martino, Alstom Digital & Integrated “governance of project-oriented
Systems
Francesca Porta, Accenture Strategy & organizations and is
Consulting considered critical for driving
Arianna Cravello, Tecnimont
Max Panaro, Maire Tecnimont, IPMA Italy critical resource management
Antonio Calabrese, Politecnico di Milano, decisions
School of Management

T he main goal of using Workforce of process steps, operative methods, input data,
actors and tools of the WFP, going through its
Planning (WFP) is to identify the
main components (WFD and WFC). Additionally,
potential gap between workforce
it attempts at depicting high-level guidelines that
are generally valid for project-driven companies,
capacity (WFC) and workforce
demand (WFD), in order to plan
training, recruiting, [3] promotions,
and sharing of knowledge. The information
and lay-offs. Therefore, a proper WFP should with the ambition to strengthen standardization
presented is the result of a combination of
entail workforce capacity and workforce demand academic literature review, based on fi fty-
evaluation, together with a viable course of two articles published from 1980 to 2021 in
action to address any shortage or surplus scientifi c journals, and an empirical study led
identifi ed between demand and supply. In this by the IPMA (International Project Management
perspective, the WFP has become a crucial part Association) and ANIMP (Associazione
of the project-oriented companies’ governance Nazionale di Impiantistica industriale), involving
and it has been deemed fundamental to drive representatives of ten project-based companies
critical decisions on resource management. This of different size and belonging to different sectors
paper aims to present the key principles in terms (EPC, Components, Package, and Services).

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