{"slug":"approve-workforce-need","name":"Approve Workforce Need and Headcount","family":"Hiring System","version":"0.1.0","status":"draft","note":"draft reference — not a fitted standard","summary":"Turn a business capacity or capability need into an explicit workforce decision before a role or requisition is opened.","purpose":"Choose and authorize the most suitable response to the work—redesign, automation, development, redeployment, external capacity, or employee hiring—using common evidence and clear decision rights.","steps":[{"sequence":1,"name":"Frame the business need","purpose":"Define the work and required outcome before proposing a person."},{"sequence":2,"name":"Assess capacity and capability","purpose":"Establish the size, duration, timing, and nature of the gap."},{"sequence":3,"name":"Generate response options","purpose":"Prevent hiring from becoming the automatic answer to every work problem."},{"sequence":4,"name":"Evaluate economics, timing, and risk","purpose":"Compare options on the same decision frame rather than preference or urgency alone."},{"sequence":5,"name":"Select the workforce response","purpose":"Choose how the need will be met and make tradeoffs explicit."},{"sequence":6,"name":"Authorize and record the decision","purpose":"Convert the recommendation into controlled authority to act."},{"sequence":7,"name":"Route, measure, and review","purpose":"Start the correct downstream process and test whether the decision solved the need."}],"connections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Manage Team Capacity and Priorities","processSlug":"manage-team-capacity-and-priorities","trigger":"Evidence indicates a durable gap requiring a workforce response decision."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Define Role and Success Profile","processSlug":"define-role-success-profile","trigger":"Response type is Employee role or a combination containing Employee role."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Redesign Work and Workflow","processSlug":"redesign-work-and-workflow","trigger":"Response includes stopping, redesigning, reallocating, or automating work."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Build and Operate a Development Plan","processSlug":"build-and-operate-development-plan","trigger":"Development is selected as a workforce response."}],"plannedConnections":[{"direction":"upstream","processName":"Translate Business Plans into Workforce Demand","trigger":"An approved business plan or material scenario changes required work or workforce capacity."},{"direction":"downstream","processName":"Allocate Work Across Employee, Contractor, Partner, and Automation Capacity","trigger":"The selected response uses redeployment, contingent capacity, a partner or supplier, or automation and requires a governed allocation decision."}],"measures":[{"name":"Decision cycle time","definition":"Elapsed time from entry-gate completion to recorded decision.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Decision completeness","definition":"Decisions satisfying all required fields and controls divided by all decisions.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Connected handoffs","definition":"Approved decisions acknowledged by the designated downstream process with the correct version divided by all approved decisions.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Unauthorized starts","definition":"Roles, supplier requests, or material work changes initiated without a valid decision divided by all initiated responses.","cadence":"Monthly"},{"name":"Need resolution","definition":"Structured review of the original outcome and indicators at the assigned review point; it does not attribute the result to this decision process alone.","cadence":"At decision review"},{"name":"Work displacement guardrail","definition":"Review of overtime, backlog, quality, safety, manager load, and hidden external work after implementation.","cadence":"At decision review"}]}