2. HR STRATEGY
• It is planned and effective use of HR
by an organization to help it to gain or
maintain an edge over its competitors.
3. HR STRATEGY
With changing nature of the business
environment, particularly with people-
increasing demand in variety of goods and
services, the nature of business are
changing fast. These changes are
demanding new types of business practices
and new way of managing employees.
5. Manpower Planning
“Manpower planning is the strategy for the
acquisition, utilization, improvement and
prevention of an organizations human
resources. It is aimed at coordinating the
requirements for and the availability of
different types of employees”
-G. Stainer
6. Key Issues
• Accuracy of Forecast
• Support of Top Level Management
• Uncertainties
• Coordination with other Managerial
Functions.
7. RECRUITMENT
“Recruitment is the process of searching for
prospective employees and stimulating and
encouraging them to apply for jobs in an
organization”
-Flippo
8. Key Issues
• Economic Factors:
Countries economic conditions
influences the recruitment process of an
organization.
Eg, LPG increased the demand for
MBA/CA/B.Tech etc.
9. • Social Factors
The mentality of modern employees has
changed from „Just any Job‟ to a „satisfying
career‟. This change came from past two
decades.
10. • Technological Factors
Eg. Banking, Electronics, Telecommunications
New technologies creates new jobs and
existing jobs have undergone rapid
changes.
11. • Political Factors
Influence of unions, recommendations of
friends and relatives of management, political
leaders etc. also plays an important role in
recruitment policies followed by a concern.
12. CAREER PLANNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
Several environmental factors may upset
career planning and development efforts of the
organization. E.g. Government
policy, reservation policy, regional
pressures, trade union demands.
13. Major issues
• Employment Employability: One of the HR
issues in today's context is the constant
upgradation of skills and knowledge if an
employee has to constantly endeavor to be
employable by the employer.
14. Major issues
• Careers: The traditional approach to
employment was that of life long
employment. Today‟s reality is that of job
hopping. Individuals constantly move from
organization to organization for better
prospects, given the vast number of
opportunities.
15. Major issues
• HR Diversity: This is an emerging issue
with job reservations in government sector.
16. Major issues
• Training and Development: The training
and development needs have increased and
are going to increase further also.
