Strategy
Workforce Planning
Connecting business strategy to required headcount, skills, locations and cost over a defined horizon.
Related terms.
Full glossary- Carve-Out / Carve-In
- Workforce transfers tied to M&A — moving employees out of (or into) an entity following a divestiture or acquisition.
- CHRO
- Chief Human Resources Officer — the executive owner of people strategy, organisation design and workforce risk.
- Job Architecture
- The framework of levels, families, titles and pay bands that gives an organisation a coherent structure.
- OKRs
- Objectives and Key Results — a goal-setting framework linking ambition to measurable outcomes.
- Operating Model
- How work, people and decisions are organised to deliver the strategy — spans, layers, accountabilities.
- Organisation Design
- The deliberate structuring of teams, reporting lines, spans and decision rights to fit the strategy.
- Span of Control
- The number of direct reports per manager — a primary lever for cost, agility and accountability.
