Human Resource Planning

Human Resource Planning

•Human Resource or Manpower Planning which is also called as Human Resource Planning consists of putting right number of people, right kind of people at the right place, right time, doing the right things for which they are suited for the achievement of goals of the organization.

•Human Resource Planning has got an important place in the arena of industrialization. Human Resource Planning has to be a systems approach and is carried out in a set procedure.

•Human Resources planning is a process by which management determine how the organization should move from its current manpower position to its desired manpower position.

•Through planning, management strives to have the right number and the right kinds of people, at the right place, at the right time, doing things, which result in both organization and the individual receiving maximum long-run benefits.

Process of HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING

•It is four-phased process. The first phase involves the gathering and analysis of data through manpower inventories and forecasts, the second phase consist of establishing manpower objectives and policies and gaining top management approval of these.

•The third phase involves designing and implementing plans promotions to enable the organization to achieve its manpower objectives.

•The fourth phase in consumed with control and evaluation of manpower plans sent programs to facilitate progress to benefits both the organization and the individual.

OBJECTIVES OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING

•1. To ensure optimum use of human resources current employees.

•2. To assess or forecast future skill requirement.

•3. To provide control measures to ensure that necessary resources are available as when required.

•4. A number of specified reasons for attaching importance to manpower planning and forecasting exercises are:

• To link manpower planning with the organizational planning

• To determine recruitment levels.

• To anticipate redundancies.

Reasons for attaching importance to manpower planning

•To determine optimum training levels.

• To provide a basis for management development programs.

• To cost the manpower.

• To assist productivity bargaining.

• To assess future accommodation requirement.

• To study the cost of overheads and value of service functions.

• To decide whether certain activity needs to be subcontracted, etc.

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