Developing a Personnel and Social Policy Model: A Workshop Design

At the end of each year it was customary for the members of our Personnel and Social Department to have their annual conference. At this conference we took stock of all activities of the past year and made plans for the year to come. Neither is a rather traditional conference adequate for developing strategies that are supposed to last for the next five to ten years, nor is a simple inventory of past activities enough of a basis on which to build on a completely new frame of reference for Personnel and Social Policy strategies. Therefore, the head of our department felt that it was about time to start considering aspects such as goals and corresponding consequences that would allow us to be more future‐oriented.