Human resources planning is a process intended to help guide the organization plan in many general areas concerned with the organization in order to enhance its employees performance, such as, staffing, the growth and development of the organization, planning training programs for the employees, job rotations, and the process of designing, managing and implementing programs that help and support the employees like benefits and compensation programs.
Nowadays, human resources planning is not something the HR department should do on its own. In high performing organizations, good human resources practices are most effectively performed by line managers with the human resources department providing the tools, guidance, and counseling needed for the line managers to be successful.
Thus, Human resources planning could be considered as a process that links the practices of human resources with the strategies of the organization through the collaboration between Human resources professionals and line managers in the organization to identify how to accomplish the strategies of the organization and reach a higher level of performance.
This figure below illustrates how Human resources planning is used to link the strategic planning of an organization with the practices of human resources:
2.Methods of HR planning:
There many ways to make human resources planning in an organization, but the two most popular ways are standard planning approach and strategy-based planning approach.
2.1 Standard HR planning: (Traditional approach) This approach is the most commonly used approach in human resources planning. It uses the configuration of the size of the staff at the end of the year to project the costs and the level of staffing for the following years. Scenarios are then developed for incremental staffing and cost for new programs and projects.
2.1.2 Drawbacks of standard HR planning:
• It implies that all existing business activities