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Business Definition for: Manpower Planning

  • the development of strategies to match the supply of workers to the availability of jobs at organizational, regional, or national level. Manpower planning involves reviewing current manpower resources, forecasting future requirements and availability, and taking steps to ensure that the supply of people and skills meets demand. At a national level, this may be conducted by government or industry bodies, and at an organizational level, by human resource managers. A more current term for manpower planning at organizational level is human resource planning.

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Current Practices in Labour Market Information Systems Development for Human Resources Development Planning in Developed, Developing and Transition Economies
This paper presents the current state of labor market data collection, analysis and dissemination practices in a selected sample of developed, transition and developing countries with a view to identifying what could be termed good practices in the development of labor market information systems LMIS and the use of labor...
Tags: Information System, Human Resources, Development, International Labour Organization
White papers 2003-06-12
Satyam Computers Services Ltd. F2Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/07f) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Please note that all participants who have logged into the call are allowed to ask questions and there is no specific priority for participants in India and the ones outside...
Tags: ADMS, BFSI, Board, Business, Business Operations, Call Transcript, CFO, Chairman, Components, Computer, Consulting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Earnings, Growth, Guidance, Hardware, It Operations, Jr., Margin, Memory, Offshore, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, President, Q2, Q3, Quarter, Question, RAM, Revenue, Satyam, Seeking Alpha, Semiconductors, Srinivas, Term, Yes
Earnings calls 2007-10-24
Medical Staff Development Plan
Mission Hospitals in Asheville, North Carolina represent the only tertiary service providers in a 20 county area in western North Carolina. The hospital needed a physician manpower plan to help ensure that it was meeting the needs of the community in the near term. They also needed a better understanding...
Tags: Physician
Case studies
Manpower Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Chris Gutek, Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Christopher Gutek – Morgan Stanley Thanks. Good morning, guys. Mike Van Handel – Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer Hi, Chris. ...
Tags: Manpower Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-10-17
News organizations carry heavy load: Iraq is becoming a budget, manpower drain.(Top of the Week)(Industry Overview)
Covering a war and reporting a presidential election requires deft planning for any television news organization. After that? "We can cover two big stories at a time. If there is a third, we'll start to get stressed," said ABC News Senior Covering a war...
Tags: ABC Inc., Saddam Hussein, NBC Universal Inc.
Research articles 2003-12-22
Air Canada Selects Altitude MPP™ from Kronos®
Advanced manpower planning solution offers airline strategic resource planning capabilities
Tags: Air Canada, Kronos Inc.
Research articles 2008-03-24
Aircraft Supplier & MRO News
Apr 7, 2008 Air Canada, Kronos Kronos said Air Canada Flight Operations selected its Altitude Manpower Planning solution featuring resource allocation intelligence, enhanced planning capabilities and various cost efficiency strategies. Mar 31, 2008 Aviation Partners, Norwegian Air, Boeing Aviation Partners Boeing will provide Norwegian Air with...
Tags: aircraft, Boeing Co., KLM, Manufacturing
Research articles 2008-04-07
Physician Strategy Development and Medical Staff Planning
Amid all of their other challenges, hospitals currently face two significant challenges related to their medical staff: how to accurately assess their physician manpower needs in order to best serve their communities while documenting evidence that would convince federal regulators that those needs are legitimate, and once those needs are...
Tags: Physician, Cross Country Healthcare
White papers 2004-12-23
Marines Defend Manpower Stance, Say Equipment is the Urgent Need
In 1999, then-Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones reassigned 3,500 Marines from noncombat jobs to warfighting posts. The changes included removing 700 Marines from kitchen duty at recruit depots in San Diego and Parris Island, S.C., and another 600 from gyms, pools and offices nationwide, and...
Tags: Iraq, procurement, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2004-09-01
Fiat SpA Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, today's question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question today comes from Massimo Vecchio of Mediobanca. Please go ahead. Massimo Vecchio - Mediobanca Securities Good afternoon to everybody. I have a question on Fiat...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Brazilian, Business, Buyback, Call Transcript, Car, CEO, CNH, Earnings, Europe, Fact, Fiat, Issue, Iveco, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Manpower Utilization, Market, Marketing, Q3, Q4, Question, Seeking Alpha, Term, U.S., Volume
Earnings calls 2007-10-25
Labor survey says market will stay tight.(Brief Article)
The labor market in the first quarter of 2000 looks to be just about as tight as 1999. The quarterly Employment Outlook Survey by the Milwaukee, Wis., temporary help firm Manpower Inc. found that 38 percent of Detroit companies are planning to add ...
Tags: layoff, Manpower Inc., staff, survey
Research articles 1999-11-22
Major General Gary W. Heckman
MAJOR GENERAL GARY W. HECKMAN Maj. Gen. Gary W. Heckman is Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff for planning and programming, and for manpower activities...
Tags: Air Force, director, Directorate, officer
Research articles 2004-01-01
Major General Rodney P. Kelly
MAJOR GENERAL RODNEY P. KELLY Retired Jan. 1, 2002. Maj. Gen. Rodney P. Kelly is assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He is responsible to the secretary of the Air Force and the chief of staff for planning and...
Tags: Air Force, Ala, Leadership, officer, Strategy
Research articles 2004-01-01
Brigadier General Paul C. Watson
BRIGADIER GENERAL PAUL C. WATSON Retired July 1, 1972. Died Dec. 29, 1998. Brigadier General Paul C. Watson is director for personnel, J-1, the Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C. In this capacity he provides manpower and personnel planning assistance to the Joint...
Tags: Air Force, aircraft, Georgia, Manufacturing
Research articles 2004-01-01
Some Question Survey Finding Increased Job Cuts in Corona, California.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)
Aug. 26--A third of Corona employers surveyed by Manpower Inc. told the temporary help company they were planning to reduce the size of their workforce in the last three months of the year, but some observers doubt the accuracy of that figure. "It stands out like...
Tags: Press-Enterprise Inc.
Research articles 1996-08-26
British MoD To Adopt Sweeping Recommendations
LONDON - The British government says it will put into law a rolling 10-year defense budget and the requirement for a regular costed strategic review as part of wide-ranging changes to the acquisition process here. Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth told Parliament on Oct. 15 that virtually all the recommendations of...
Tags: government, program, equipment, recommendation, defense
News items 2009-10-16
Brigadier General Vern M. "Rusty" Findley II
BRIGADIER GENERAL VERN M. "RUSTY" FINDLEY II Selected for promotion to major general. Brig. Gen. Vern M. "Rusty" Findley II is Director, Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The directorate is responsible for all planning and programming within the command, to...
Tags: Air Force, California, Manufacturing, officer, training
Research articles 2004-01-01
Brigadier General Erwin F. "Erv" Lessel III
BRIGADIER GENERAL ERWIN F. "ERV" LESSEL III Brig. Gen. Erwin F. "Erv" Lessel III is Deputy Director, Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He is responsible for the command's strategic planning, manpower and organization, performance management, legislative affairs, base closure, privatization and...
Tags: Air Force, Manufacturing, officer, Staff
Research articles 2004-01-01
DoD news briefing; Part 2 of 2.
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 December 2002-US DOD: DoD news briefing; Part 2 of 2C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12192002 SR. DEFENSE OFFICIAL: They will be provided with the resources that will allow them to add the capacity at their headquarters to do the kind ...
Tags: aircraft, battlefield, laser, Manufacturing, NETWORKING, satellite, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2002-12-20
Tutor Perini: A Constructive Play at a Value Price
Paul Price submits: Tutor Perini Corporation is a construction services company, offering general contracting, construction management and design-build services to corporate clients and government agencies worldwide.TPC offers general contracting, preconstruction planning and project management, including the planning and scheduling of the manpower, equipment, materials and subcontractors required for a project....
Tags: Materials & Industrials, Paul Price, SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc.
External links 2009-08-12
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