All active organizations engage in internal and external staffing activities. However, as employment grows and the number of staffing decisions multiplies, it often becomes difficult to keep track of human resource flows and to maintain a manageable overview of these staffing activities. In this paper, we propose a simple methodology through which an easily understandable summary of organizational staffing activities may be obtained. This methodology combines a graphic representation (called human resource maps) of personnel stocks and flows with a number of quantitative indicators which measure different human resource flows through the organization. Uses of this methodology are illustrated with an application to a thirteen-year history of a large organization.
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