1. Human Resource Planning
A process through which the company anticipates
future business and environmental forces.
Assess the manpower requirement for future
period of time.
Attempts to provide sufficient manpower required
to perform organizational activities.

2. The following HR Planning process can be adopted by any organization with
necessary modifications.
Steps in general HR Planning process:
Step 1 – Determine Your Business Goals
Mission
Objectives
Long-term Objectives
Short-term Objectives

3. Step 2 – Scan the Environment
Workforce Analysis
Key demographic employment data
and characteristics.
Internal workforce trends
Internal Scan
Focuses on identifying the factors
within the department that might
affect the HR capacity.
External Scan
Focuses on identifying external
factors that may affect workforce
capacity.

4. Step 3 – Conduct a Gap Analysis
Current and future HR requirements
need to be projected based on an analysis
of departmental goals and priorities, and
environmental scanning.
Step 4 – Set HR Priorities
Subsequent to an examination to the
gap analysis outcomes, HR priorities
should be determined and the strategies
needed to achieve desired outcomes must
be identified by departments.

5. Step 5 – Monitor, Evaluate and Report
Key to assessing progress in target areas,
organizational learning and improvement,
and to determining future priorities.
Major Activities Required to Execute HR Plan
Recruitment
Selection
Placement
Training and Development
Control
Evaluation