Problem: State and Local Government Workforce: 2012 Trends

A survey by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence, conducted among members of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources and the National Association of State Personnel Executives, State and Local Government Workforce: 2012 Trends identified the following workforce changes:

• Sixty-eight percent of the respondents noted their workforces have shrunk since the 2007-2008 economic downturn.

• Twenty-two percent of the respondents noted that employees had accelerated their plans for retirement.

• Fifty-one percent of the respondents noted pay freezes.

• Forty-two percent of the respondents noted hiring freezes.

• Twenty-eight percent of the respondents laid off employees.

Questions

1. Develop a SHRM plan for addressing each of those workforce changes: reduced workforce, increased retirements, pay freezes, hiring freezes, and layoffs.

2. Which SHRM plan was most difficult to develop?