Supply Analysis

 Conducting a Supply Analysis

Conducting a supply analysis involves understanding the current workforce and how it is projected to change over time, due to attrition and other trends.

Questions to consider

  • How well does the current workforce align/support your business strategy?
  • How many employees are at each organization level?
  • How will turnover of key staff affect your organization's ability to deliver services?
  • Where are my difficult positions to fill? Where am I challenged to fill positions with quality applicants?
  • Are there local recruitment sources that can provide top talent?
  • What new ways of working or skill mix would aid in recruitment?
  • Can the workforce be arranged differently to better facilitate workload coverage?
  • What is the current distribution of employee years of service?

Preserve & Transfer Institutional Knowledge

Create a Succession Plan

Conduct a Work Analysis

Prioritize your work portfolio

Leverage workforce data to understand your workforce

Where to find NIH workforce data:
How to report & visualize data:

Identify staff competency needs

How to identify competencies critical to the mission

Engage and retain 

Tools to engage employees
Leverage exit interviews
NIH Exit Survey and Action Planning Module

Create transition plans to capture critical knowledge

Use the template to capture critical projects
How to & facilitator guides

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