Human Resource Planning

Management is all about decision making with risk and* Determining training needs: Planning training
uncertainty. But the target of effective management isprogrammes are very important. These programmes
to reduce the risk and uncertainty with the proper usenot only improve quantity but also quality in terms of
of information available to them. Human resourcethe skills required by the organization.
consultants helps you to groom your personality, grow* Management development: A succession of trained
your potential and improve your interpersonal skills toand experienced managers is essential to the
deal with work pressure.effectiveness of the organization, and this depends on
Human resource planning is an expression of thisaccurate information about present and future
philosophy in the most important area of all, therequirements in all management posts.
effective employment of people. The changes and* Balancing the cost between the utilization of plant
pressures brought about by economic, technologicaland workforce: Cost balancing includes comparison of
and social factors compel organizations of all kinds tocosts between these two resources in different
study the costs and human aspects of labour muchcombinations and selecting the optimum. While costing
more seriously and carefully than ever before.projects cost balancing plays an important role.
Purposes of HRP:* Industrial relation: the businesses plan will, of necessity;
The general purpose of human resource planning hasmake assumptions about productivity of the human
been described, but there are specific purposes inresource. It will have an impact on the organization's
crucial areas of management which HR planningindustrial relations strategies.
servers:In practice, HR planning is concerned with the demand
* Determining recruitment needs: An importantand supply of labour and problems arising from the
prerequisite to the process of recruitment is to avoidprocess of reconciling these factors. Plans and
problems of unexpected shortages, wastage,decisions of any system follow the analyses of
blockages in the promotion flow and needlessdemand and supply.
redundancies.