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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Research planning requirements
   • Analyse strategic plans to determine strategic workforce direction, objectives and targets
   • Analyse organisational environment and identifyemerging practices and trendsthat may impact on human resource management in the organisation
   • Identifyfuture labour needs, skill requirements andsources of labour supply
   • Identify new technology and its impact on job roles and job design
   • Review recent and potential changes to industrial and legal requirements
2. Contribute to development of strategic workforce plan
   • Consult relevant managers about their workforce preferences
   • Agree on workforce philosophies, values and policies with relevant managers
   • Developstrategic objectives and targets for workforce services
   • Examineoptions for the provision of workforce services and analyse costs and benefits
   • Identify appropriate technology and systems to support agreed workforce programs and practices
   • Contribute input from consultation into strategic workforce plan and obtain senior management support for plan
   • Analyse risks associated with strategic workforce plan and develop risk mitigation strategies
3. Support implementation of strategic workforce plan
   • Work with relevant stakeholders and ensure that plan is implemented according to organisational objectives
   • Monitor and review the plan
   • Recommend adaptions to plan to account for changing circumstances
   • Evaluate and review performance against plan objectives

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:

analyse 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 labour needs and skills requirements

options for sourcing labour

organisation’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.

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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 organisation

common options for sourcing labour

impact of technology on job roles in the organisation or work area

options for sourcing labour 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.

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