Human Resourses planning
Human Resourses planning
Planning
Ammarah Saleem
Lecturer
Department of Applied Psychology, GCWUF.
• Human resource planning allows companies to plan ahead so they can
maintain a steady supply of skilled employees.
• Also referred to as workforce planning.
• It is the process of acquiring and utilizing human resource in an organization.
• It includes planning for staff retention, planning for candidate search, training
and skills analysis and much more.
• It is used to help companies evaluate their needs and to plan ahead to meet
those needs.
• Human resource planning needs to be flexible enough to meet short-term
staffing challenges while adapting to changing conditions in the business
environment over the longer term.
• HRP starts by assessing and auditing the current capacity of human resources.
Human Resource
• The main objective is to ensure that an organization has right number of
employees in the right place at the right time.
Planning (HRP)
• Determining recruitment needs
• Determining training needs
• Management development
• Balancing the cost between the utilization of plant and
workforce
• Industrial relations
• Consider future workforce
• Analyze Current Workforce
• Future Preparation
• Evaluation Process
Objectives of Human
Resource Planning
1. Analyzing organizational plans
2. Forecast demand for HR
3. Forecast HR supply
4. Estimating manpower gaps
5. Action plan
6. Monitoring and control are required throughout the
process
Human Resource
Planning process
• Human resource planning determines the future needs of human
resources in terms of number and kind.
• Human resource planning is important to cope with the change associated
with external environmental factors such as technological, political, socio-
cultural, and economic forces.
• Another purpose of HR planning is to recruit and select the most suitable
personnel to fill job vacancies.
• Human resource planning/human resources planning helps find out the
surplus/ shortage of human resources.
• It is helpful in employee development through various training and
development campaigns to impart the required skill and ability in employees to
perform the task efficiently and effectively.
Determinants of Human
Resource Planning
• Nature of Human Resources.
• Supply of Skilled Manpower.
• Rapid Technological Change.
• Costs of Recruitment and Hiring.
• Increased Mobility.
• Reduction of Wastage.
• Human Resources as Corporate Assets.
• Size of the Firm.
• Profitability.
• Management Development.
Benefits of Human
Resource Planning
• Find and attract skilled employees.
• Select, train, and reward the best candidates.
• Cope with absences and deal with conflicts.
• Promote employees or let some of them go.
Challenges of Human
Resource Planning