Workforce sciences

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Workforce Sciences is an area of workforce measurement and management designed to streamline hiring of personnel in organizations. An emerging discipline, it focuses on the empirical determination of the workforce and business impact of the people side of business -- in order to help organizations find the "ideal" set of employees. Workforce sciences spans the analysis of various workforce dynamics in organizations - the flow of talent into, through and out of organizations over time - and the effects of specific workforce practices and policies companies employ to influence those dynamics, including sourcing and selection, recruitment, on-boarding and training, career development, leadership development, supervision, performance measurement and management, total rewards, productivity improvement initiatives, among others. It is also concerned with determining the drivers of employee engagement and how they are conditioned by various strategic, operational and other contextual factors. It helps support hiring decisions, in particular strategic workforce planning and management, workforce or talent strategies as well as labor-market selection. The latter is an increasingly important dimension of workforce management as organizations deal with the global competition for talent.…

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