People Management for Engineers - Workforce Planning

Workforce Planning
For NewCo write down what you'd consider important to manage a workforce. Is it the right size and has the right skill sets? Does your workforce have the correct tools and processes to make it successful?
 

Recommended  Reading
Human Resource Management - Torrington, Hall, Taylor, Atkinson - Chapter 5 Workforce Planning
Human Resource Management Theory & Practice - Chapter 6 Workforce planning and talent management
http://www.palgrave.com/business/bratton5/


http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/workforce-planning/
http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/workforce-planning/six-steps-workforce-planning-methodology/

- Estimating Manpower Requirements
- The Labour Market
- Needs Analysis and Evaluation
- Cost implications
- General employment environment e.g. market conditions, labour turnover, demographic issues, skills shortages, use of part time and olderemployees

6 common steps in Workforce Planning
1. Recognise a change
2. Prepare scenarios
3. Defining the newly required workforce
4. Understanding workforce availability
5. Planning to deliver required workforce
6. Implement, monitoring and refresh

A slight alternative is to consider
- Organisation strategy and targets
- Organisation practices and methods - what it does

Internal (e.g. Perfromance evaluations, training assessments) and External (e.g. PESTLE) input in
- Workforce review and analysis 
The Forecast and it's affect on upcoming Supply & Demand
- Adjust this to Balance to Recruit, Retain or Reduce

CHANGE
GPUN has bought all of SPUNs network distribution business and infrastructure leaving a cash rich services only business
SDS have moved to on-line sales only and consolidated all manufacturing and R&D into the UK closing the US operation










 

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People Management for Engineers 1. Setting the Scene

To develop learners understanding of the methods, processes and procedures when managing people in engineering


Describe a fictional (but not too far from reality) company to use as your reference point.
I'll call it NewCo

As background write down what you see as
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Management?
- Why you would want to be a Manager?
- What you would enjoy about being a Manager?

What you would do in your first few weeks of becoming a Manager?

Innovation 2

Initiatives are not the same as innovations

Innovations make breakthroughs that are measureable and beneficial. Initiatives can rally troops and raise performance but are by their nature time limited

See the table of management initiatives through the 20^th century from Decision trees to self-managing teams and beyond. What have you experienced and what are you experiencing now?

An innovative way to bring creativity and ideas to the fore is to have meetings without slides. Storytelling should be interesting and engaging.  It should encourage people to devise their own endings. The next steps to a satisfactory conclusion

People talk, people listen and take notes.

Then each person’s individual notes are read out loud. No matter what you think the comment that is re-read out the most is the take away from the meeting and the one that will be acted on.

Is it the action you had planned as the outcome of your meeting?

Stories

	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Non-fiction	Case Study, Data	Meeting	Plan
Embellished Reality		News, encounters	Why I couldn’t
Fiction	Legends, Myths		Scenario

Innovation 1.

Through August we are going to begin talking about Innovation
So let's begin with Wikipedia
The term innovation can be defined as something original and new that "breaks in to" the market or into society.
Practical Innovation is new beneficial solutions by more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas delivered to markets, governments and society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

UK Technology and Innovation Business News #28 July 2013

Spending Review

In a month that saw the release of the UKs spending review many voices came out in support of science and technology. The need for investment in University and College training, apprenticeships and leadership training around innovation. This is backed by many companies acting on this as a focus and through many funding releases. Some of which are mentioned below.

Despite the far reaching cuts, the spending round commits £50bn of capital infrastructure investment in 2015 and includes money for roads, railways, bridges, broadband, science and schools. This will amount to over £300bn pounds of capital spending to the end of this decade. The Government has also committed to maintain the resource budget for science at £4.6bn and increase the capital budget for science to £1.1bn. Funding is also earmarked for 20 new university technical colleges.

ESCO Report

In addition the ESCO report has also been released. http://www.esco.org.uk/ A collaborative released a strategy outlining aims to grow the UK’s electronic systems industry to £120 billion (up 55%) by 2020. The strategy will look to create an additional 150,000 highly-skilled jobs. The ESCO Report, (Electronics Systems: Challenges and Opportunities), the strategy document details how the industry can grow to contribute 7.1 per cent of GDP by 2020. The Report was created for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The rise from today’s £78bn to £120 billion would place the sector among the top five UK industries. The sector would also support more than 1 million skilled jobs, making it a top-5 UK employer.

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UK Technology and Innovation Business News #28 July 2013

Manufacturing

-       £90m boost to aerospace technologies for collaborative research and technology projects that are consistent with the objectives of the Aerospace Industrial Strategy and it will be targeted at small and medium-sized aerospace suppliers  http://www.govopps.co.uk/fallon-announces-90m-boost-to-aerospace-technologies/?utm_source=GO+Intelligence+Briefing+w%2Fc+17%2F06%2F2013&utm_campaign=GO+Intelligence+Briefing+w%&utm_medium=email

-       530 jobs secured as Thales awarded £600m Royal Navy contract - See more at: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/530-jobs-secured-as-thales-awarded-600m-royal-navy-contract/?goback=%2Egde_4189598_member_244907059#sthash.zX76QX9y.dpuf

-       Cambridge Nanotherm heats up with £500k prototype manufacturing plant for advanced LED production http://www.cabume.co.uk/hardware/cambridge-nanotherm-heats-up-with-p500k-prototype-manufacturing-plant.html?utm_source=Cabume+Weekly+newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ad2f749e61-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_29951cfe56-ad2f749e61-242216325

Smart Infrastructure

-       For breaking news keep an eye on Tech City News http://techcitynews.com/

-       The Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, has a record £440m budget to support innovative businesses and drive growth across the UK. http://www.govopps.co.uk/record-440m-funding-for-innovative-companies/?utm_source=GO+Intelligence+Briefing+-+w%2Fc+13%2F05%2F2013&utm_campaign=GO+Intelligence+Briefing+-+w%&utm_medium=email

Energy

-       An IET Event of Note – Power in Unity – A whole system approach will focus on Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Smart Metering and Power Quality both individually and as a united system http://www.theiet.org/events/2013/180867.cfm?utm_source=Adestra&utm_campaign=Energy%20Newsletter%20126%20-%2016%20May&utm_medium=Events&utm_content=Power%20Newsletter&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theiet.org%2Fevents%2F2013%2F180867.cfm&utm_contact=1100208866

-       UK Export Finance has announced that it will guarantee $700m of finance for UK exports to a petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. In a massive boost to British businesses, the UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), has announced that it will guarantee $700m (£450m) of finance to British companies bidding for contracts on a new $19bn (£12bn) petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. http://www.govopps.co.uk/massive-boost-to-british-industry-in-biggest-ever-petrochemical-project/?utm_source=GOweeklyNewsletter26June13&utm_campaign=GOweeklyNewsletter&utm_medium=email

Wireless

-       UK could relax planning laws to speed LTE  http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2013/05/09/uk-relax-planning-laws-speed-lte.htm

-       £1bn investment in Speeding up mobile broadband http://www.govopps.co.uk/1bn-investment-in-speeding-up-mobile-broadband/?utm_source=Kevin+GO+weekly+newsletter+8+May+2013&utm_campaign=Kevin+GO+weekly+newsletter+&utm_medium=email

-       David Willetts: UK could be 'world leader' in 5G http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3452793/david-willetts-uk-could-be-world-leader-in-5g/?cmpid=TD1N18&no1x1&olo=daily%20newsletter