Human resource planning is a process that forecasts an organization's future demand for and supply of employees. It is a subsystem of the organization's overall planning process. An effective HR plan facilitates achieving organizational goals by ensuring the right people are available. Key factors that affect HR planning include the organization's strategy, growth, environmental uncertainties, and job requirements. The planning process involves forecasting HR needs and supply, setting objectives, programming activities, implementing the plan, and evaluating outcomes. Barriers to effective planning include the time required, lack of business expertise, incompatible data, and uncertainties. Guidelines for improving HR planning are to have adequate information systems, participation, organization, alignment with corporate planning, and appropriate time horizons.

1. Human resource planning

2. Group Members
K.Sooriya 2010/BAD/002
J.Andrewsiya 2010/BAD/068
S.Satheeskumar 2010/BAD/125
Reference : K.Aswathappa, 3rd
edition
Human resource management and personnel management

3. Contents
Definition of Human resource planning
Connection between organization planning and
HR planning
Importance of HR planning
Factors affecting HR plan
HR Planning Process
Requirements for successful HRP
Barriers to HR plan
Guidelines for making HRP effective

4. Definition of Human resource planning
HRP is a process of forecasting a firm’s future
demand for, and supply of ,
The right type of people
In the right number

5. HR planning & organizational planning
HR plan is sub system in total
organizational planning
Organizational planning set the company’s
objectives, goal, mission and vision for the
future.
HR planning facilitates the realization of the
company’s objectives, goal, mission and
vision by providing the right type and the
right number of people

6. Importance of HR plan
Future personnel needs
Coping with change
Creating highly talented personnel
Protection of weaker section
International strategies
Foundation for personnel function
Increasing investments in HR
Resistance to change and move

7. Con……….
Other importance
Optimize Staffing
Make contingent plans for sudden
requirements & situations of shortfall
Unite the perspective of Line and Staff
Managers
Cost reduction in HR

8. Factors afffecting HR plan
Type and strategy of organization
Organizational growth and cycles and
planning
Environmental uncertainties
Time horizon
Type and quality of information
Nature of jobs being filled
Off-loading the work

9. HR planning process
Environment
HR Needs forecast HR Supply forecast
2 Organization objectives &
policies
3
HR Programming
4
HR Implementation
5
Control & Evaluation
6
Surplus Shortage
1 Environment
HR Needs forecast HR Supply forecast
Organization objectives &
policies

10. Requirements for effective HR plan
HR plan must be as a part of corporate planning.
HR plan duties should be centralized in different
management level
Plan should be prepared by Skill Levels rather than by
aggregates
The Time horizon of the plan must be long enough to
permit any remedial action
Personnel records must be complete , up-to-date and
readily available
The techniques of planning should be suited to
information available.

11. Barriers to HR plan
Time consuming
HR practitioners are inexpert in managing business
Incompatible information
Conflicts between short term and long term HR needs
Conflict between quantitative and quantitative
approaches to HRP
Non involvement of operating managers renders HRP
ineffective
Trade unions
Uncertainties

12. Guidelines for making
HRP effective
• Adequate information system
• Participation
• Adequate organisation
• Human Resource Planning should be
balanced with corporate planning
• Appropriate time horizon

13. Conclusion
An effective HRP is required for an
organisation to be effective
HRP needs to be fully in integrated to the
organisation plan
Secret of success is the right type of people
available in the right number at time at
right place

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