Workforce Planning and Role Distribution

This week’s topics

Workforce Planning and Role Distribution

1. External drivers and demographic pressures on planning
2. Resource and rota scheduling
3. Defining scopes of practice
4. Delegation matrices and responsibility mapping
5. HR Planning: How to Apply Human Resource Planning in Practice [2025]
6. Delegation of Authority
7. Labour Flexibility and PESTLE

What you will be able to do

• 3.2 Explain factors which influence forward planning in a team.
• 3.3 Explain how to identify areas of individual and team responsibility in achieving objectives.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain factors which influence forward planning in a team.

Study materials

Videos

• HR Planning: How to Apply Human Resource Planning in Practice [2025] · YouTube · AIHR - Academy to Innovate HR · 10 min · for registered students
• Delegation of Authority · YouTube · Galton College · 37 min · for registered students
• Labour Flexibility and PESTLE · YouTube · Galton College · 59 min · for registered students

Further resources

• The Cavendish Review: healthcare assistants and support workers in NHS and social care (2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
• People at the heart of care: adult social care reform white paper (DHSC, 2021) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
• Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 7.4–7.5: Authority, delegation and centralisation · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 231–233 · for registered students