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Human Resource Planning

HRM department is important to the organization. HRM is not directly involving to make sale or profit to the Organization. However, HRM planning is directly impacting to achieve goals and growth.

What is Human Resource Planning?

General meaning is, identify employee requirement in-term of quantity and quality. This must be ongoing process in all the time. Apart from that needs to make sure whether all employees are fully interacting with their job role. Further, it is important to make sure that there won’t be any excess or shortage in employee requirement. (Aslam, et al., 2013)

In addition, there are three fundamental factors that needs to focus (Aslam, et al., 2013).
  • Forecast of employees.
  • Demand of employees and availability in market.
  • Manage employee supply and demand

Human Resource planning process.

If HRM planning is not functioning properly, that will lead to bleed money in two different forms.
  • Unable achieve goals without having sufficient employees.
  • Excess employees are increasing overhead to the organization.
Therefore, it is important to follow proper process to fulfill HRM planning.

  • Employee Analysis (Hayes, 2022)

Firstly, it is important to have proper detail analysis of each employee. Specially strength and weakness. Based on this analysis, need to assign employees to suitable positions and role.

  • Employee Forecast (Hayes, 2022)

Considering organization growth and mission, need to identify potential employee requirement. Then able to realize the gap of employee requirement. Considering this output, able to identify promotions, transfers, retirements, and new recruitment.

This is most critical in term of employee aspects regarding the promotions. If HRM is conducting employee analysis and forecasting timely manner, able to identify protentional for the employees. Then employee job satisfaction will he high.

  • Managing Employee demand and supply (Hayes, 2022)

Based on above analysis, able to identify present gap of employee demand as well as future demand. Then HRM has to prepare to fulfil these in timely manner. Apart from that, HRM needs to focus on below points as well.

    • Require new skills to employees
    • Additional manager requirements
    • Employees are doing their job in maximum strength

  • Planning and execution (Hayes, 2022)

Need to finalize the plan to fulfill the identify gaps. It is important to drive the plan with time frame. Employees are needed to get in board in when the right time. Early or delay will be impact to organization money. 

Human Resource Planning Challenges.

Even HRM has established a proper plan, there would be un-predictable challengers to achieve. Specially HRM has to deal with people. Then people are changing due to several reasons. Therefore, it is unable to specify all challenges. But there are few challenges that common.
  • Find suitable skill employees. (Hayes, 2022)
  • Identify require training and reward employees (Hayes, 2022).
  • Unable to promote all the employees even they have fulfilled their criteria. There should be opportunity in organization structure. Then employees will be dissatisfied (Hayes, 2022).

Conclusion

Human Resource planning to important to organization. However, it is challenging to drive the plan. When considering sustainable business, it is worth to drive the plan with maximum effort because result would be directly impacting to organization growth.

References

Aslam, H. D. et al., 2013. Human Resource Planning Practice in Managing Human Resource: A Literature Review. International Journal of Human Resource Studies, Volume 3, p. 3.

Hayes, A., 2022. Investopedia. [Online] 
Available at: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/human-resource-planning.asp#:~:text=There%20are%20four%20general%20steps,that%20support%20the%20company's%20goals.
[Accessed 30 April 2022].

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Comments

  1. Lakshitha MBA 2022 FEB2 May 2022 at 09:34

    Clearly stated Managing employee demand and supply based on the aforementioned data, possible to detect current and prospective employee demand gaps HRM must then prepare to meet these deadlines in a timely way. Apart from that, HRM must concentrate on the following factors. best wishes

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  2. Darshana Undugodage7 May 2022 at 09:14

    Human resource planning should serve as a link between human resource management and the overall strategic plan of an organization. Article clearly showcase the importance planning in HRM. Good luck

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