Lesson 1. Human Resource Planning

=HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING=

INTRODUCTION
Human resource or manpower planning is of great important in the general development and growth of organizations. Thus personnel and Human resources experts, managers and practitioners have now made it known to management that adequate attention be given to it with a view to ensuring better use of other resources especially capital. Organisations have also realized that with increasing competition and complexity in business, more time should be devoted to effective human resources planning to achieve desired goals. Furthermore organisations have known that not only is the overall cost of human resources high, that human element is complex, unpredictable and sometimes difficult to develop or change unlike capital that is relatively easier to acquire, manager or control.

Human Resources Planning Process

 * 1) The stating point of human resource planning process (HRPP) is the determination of corporate or organizational goals. This will now help us to have a clear vision of the future aspiration of the organization and plan towards the realization of its objects.
 * 2) Identify the direction the organistion wants to take to achieve those goals e.g through the introduction of new technology, a new project of by diversification. This will then be translated into human elements needed for the actualization of the set objectives.
 * 3) Take inventory of current manpower position to determine future needs.Information such as educational qualification, skills, experience, type of job, sex, age and geographical location should be considered in planning manpower needs.  In other words, we have to take stock of our current manpower to enable us forecast what we need in future.  This involves job analysis, job description and job specification
 * 4) A manpower audit is equally important: This will show the actual number of employees on the establishment which will form the basis of operations.  For instance, if there is manpower deficiency, the organization could correct the situation through its personnel/administrative programmes.  This could be achieved through the following means.
 * Recruitment
 * Training and staff development
 * Promotion and transfer etc
 * 1) Evaluation of our strategies is the next important step.

This means that it is necessary to evaluate if recruitment training and development in terms of benefits cost analysis etc would be beneficial or not with a view to taking appropriate action.

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Karosibina 15:37, 26 February 2007 (CET