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Everything about Workforce management

Approach to optimizing staff in a workplace

Workforce management (WFM) is a process for corporate leaders and managers to optimize and encourage productivity, competency, and employee engagement. Generally, it relies on software to help those leaders plan out a business's needs and execute work more effectively than through a spreadsheet. WFM typically includes all of the activities needed to maintain a modern, productive workforce: human resource management, performance and training management, budgeting, forecasting, and scheduling. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Workforce managementA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Unwrapping IT Project Success in China: Examining the Role of Empowering Leadership, Workforce Agility and Top Management Support in IT Project SuccessInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Construction Daily Site Log BookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: A comprehensive mobile application tool for disease surveillance, workforce management and supply chain management for Malaria Elimination Demonstration ProjectCited 28 times
  5. Go sideways: Employee scheduling softwareA closely related topic
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  1. Core components
  2. Employee experience
  3. Market growth
  4. Delivery models

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🆕 Influential since 2022

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