Introduction
Human Resource Planning refers to the process by which the needs of the organization are identified, responded to, and thus the introduction of new systems, policies, and programs for ensuring effective management of human resource in the changing conditions.
This strategy of in human resource relates to other human resource activities in a number of ways and they are as follows;
HR planning aims at ensuring that the people with necessary competences or skills and characteristics will be available in the future to meet the needs of the organization. In addition, it is also a useful tool to determine the practices to implement in order to meet the HRM’s future anticipated needs.
Furthermore, the human resource planning is the one that ties together the entire activities of the human resource and integrates them all with the organization. When an organization is engaged in planning of human resource, it derives its needs for human resource through forecasting first its human resources demand.
In addition, through this human planning, the companies can gain the control of its future by getting ready for the events that might occur. In management of the human resource, control is one of the key functions of management and thus planning relates to this management activity.
The other function of management is planning of human resource within the organization; therefore, human resource planning is one of the activities of human resource that the organization needs to undertake to identify the future needs of its people. When an organization fails to plan its human resources, then it may not be able to anticipate correctly to the increase in the demand for the future personnel. This could result to under-staffing, if recruitment of the new personnel is not done immediately.
Reference
Kleinman, L. S. (2010). Human Resource Management. Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.
