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workforce requirement as well as current need is carried out with respect to the commitments,
objectives and plans. This includes the review and dissection of the type of workforce an
organization requires and a number of workforces to run the organizational operations. In order
to do so, both quality and quantity analysis is required of the employees need with respect to the
education, skills, knowledge and experience. Workforce planning helps to optimize the
Just like others, labor market is also volatile and is sensitive with respect to numerous factors
such as Socio-economic condition of a country, the political status and demography. With effect
of these factors, there are fluctuation on labor force. Sometimes, the labor market faces excessive
An organization must always be aware about this situation and need play strategically for
survival in the competitive market. For example, in the different states of Australia, there is
different workforce dynamics of demand and supply. Data show that the food industry in the
Australia has both situation of high demand and high supply. In states like Sydney and
Melbourne, due to popular restaurant culture, the demand of good labor force is always there in
the food industry. However, in other cities, there are fewer restaurants and the workforce for
These dynamics keep changing. Hopefully in the future, the cities that have deficiency in the
workforce volume will get saturated. For such discrepancies, the organizations should be tactical.
Not only the organizations, the government too needs to prepare policy that creates osmosis
1. Supply Analysis
2. Demand Analysis
3. Gap Analysis
4. Solution Analysis
1. Supply Analysis: The supply analysis consist of analysis of workforce and trends along
with workload status, workforce demographics and so on. Government of Australia has
updated such data on their web portals with respect to all the industry including food
industry. Supply analysis further needs to answer the alignment of companys mission,
2. Demand Analysis: The demand analysis needs to answer dimensions of works such as
volume of work, duration required and place of work. In addition, the probability and
answered so that the future competencies requirements are clear along with the size of the
3. GAP Analysis: The gap analysis is required to understand the void that comes from
workforce in the future is to be understood and the areas where management actions are
4. Solution: Finally, based on the gap, workforce transition should be planned. This includes