Analysis of manpower demand is important not only at corporate level for co
rporate planning in human resource, but also at industry level for policy m
aking in higher education. In this paper a regression model is built to est
imate the industrial management (IM) manpower demanded by the manufacturing
industries in Taiwan by using the reliable data of large firms. In forecas
ting, the manpower needed by individual firms of different sizes as well as
by the whole industry for three education levels, namely, junior college,
university and graduate school are estimated. The skill requirements of the
IM employees as viewed by the industries are investigated. A three-factor
analysis of variance is conducted to detect differences among the disciplin
es, industries, and education levels. The results provide some explanation
for the economic development of Taiwan. Since the methodology of this paper
is very generic, it is readily applicable to other professions in other co
untries.