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Defining Human Resource Planning

Objectives

Importance

Factors affecting Human resource Plan

Human Resource Planning Process

Responsibility of Human Resource Planning

Limitations of Human Resource Planning

Defi ning Human Resource Planning
Human resource planning(HRP) is a method of
identifying when a company needs more employees,
and then finding individuals that are qualified to fulfill
those positions.
 Objecti ves of HRP
Forecast personnel requirements:HR planning is essential to determine
the future manpower needs in an organization.

Cope with changes: HR planning is required to cope with changes in

market conditions, technology, products and government.

Use existing manpower productively: By keeping an inventory of existing

personnel in enterprise by skill, level,training,educational,it will be possible
to utilize the existing resources more usefully in relation to job
requirements.

Promote employees in a systematic manner: HR planning provides useful

information on the basis which management decides on the promotion of
eligible personnel in the organization.
Importance of Human Resource Planning
Reservoir of Talent: The organization can have a reservoir of talent at
any point of time.

Prepare people for future: People can be trained ,motivated and

developed In advance and this helps in meeting future needs for high
quality employees quite easily.

Expand or Contract: if the organization wants to expand its scale of

operations, it can go ahead easily.

Cut costs: Planning facilitates the preparation of an appropriate HR

budget for each department or division.
 Factors aff ecti ng HR plan
Type and strategy of organization

Organizational growth and cycles and planning

Environmental uncertainties

Time horizon

Type and quality of information

Nature of jobs being filled

Off-loading the work

Responsibility of Human Resource
Planning
Assist and counsel operating manager to plan and set objectives

Collect and summaries manpower data keeping long-run objectives and

broad organizational interests in mind.

Monitor and measure performance against the plan and keep top
management informed about it

Provide proper research base for effective manpower and organizational

planning.
Limitati ons of Human Resource Planning
Accuracy: Projecting manpower needs over a period of time is a risky one.

Support: Planning is generally undertaken to improve overall efficiency .In

the name of cost cutting ,this may ultimately help management weed out
unwanted labor at various levels. The few efficient ones that survive such
frequent onslaughts complains about increased workloads.

Number game: HRP, in the final analysis, may suffer due to excessive focus
on the quantitative aspects. The quality side of the coin(consisting of
employee ,motivation, morale, careers prospects ,etc )may be discounted
thoroughly.
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