* Involve employees and other stakeholders in developing and
implementing future workforce strategies. Agency managers,
supervisors, employees, and employee unions need to work together to
ensure that the entire agency understands the need for and benefits of
changes described in the strategic workforce plan so that the agency
can develop clear and transparent policies and procedures to implement
the plan's human capital strategies. Involving employees and other
stakeholders on strategic workforce planning teams can develop new
synergies that identify ways to streamline processes and improve human
capital strategies and help the agency recognize and deal with the
potential impact that the organization's culture--the underlying
assumptions, beliefs, values, attitudes, and expectations generally
shared by an organization's members--can have on the implementation of
such improvements. Changes that recognize how they may challenge the
existing culture, and include appropriate steps to deal with potential
problems, are more likely to succeed than strategies that do not.