Staffing Forecasting and Planning

Well-researched and with practical applications, this manual shows the importance of understanding an organization's business strategy, goals, and competitive environment to identify what talents the firm will need. The combination of strategic forecasting and labor-market planning outlined in this resource shows how to increase an organization's ability to improve its capabilities, reduce its costs, and survive any economic environment. Ensuring that the right people are in place at the right time, these practices help employers be proactive and smart about hiring decisions.

Anthropologist Inga Dora Bjornsdottir studied at the University of Lund, Sweden, and New York University, and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992. She has taught anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and has taught and served as an adjudicator at the University of Iceland. She is an active researcher, lecturer, and writer, her chief topics being the relationship between nationality and the construction of gender, masculinity and men's choirs, and feminist movements. She is coauthor of the book Kvinner, Krig og Kjærlighet (Women, War, and Love) and of the documentary Ast og strid (Love and War), both of which document research on Icelandic women who married American soldiers during World War II
Born and raised in Iceland, Maria Helga Guomundsdottir is a student of German literature and geology at Stanford University and a translator of English, Icelandic, and German. She was a finalist for Stanford's Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing in 2005.