Features: Workforce analysis: Replacing management by fad with management certainty.

The article offers information on the workforce analysis created by industrial companies to solve retirement attrition problem. It states that one of the challenges faced by industrial managers is ensuring that they continue to have workforce who are knowledgeable and skilled in their respective line of works. The prevalence of retirees is believed to have caused organizational risk and direct threat to operation. In order to solve retirement attrition problem, companies have formulated a workforce analysis which also aims to separate existing skills of an organization and evaluating the depth of knowledge within it. The strategic and tactical tools of workforce analysis offers ideas on the strength and weaknesses of a workforce, the trends in attrition as well as its impact.