Limitations to Hr Planning

Human resource planning is the process by which the management ensures that the right number of people with the right skills is available at the right time, in the right job, in order to help the organization achieve its objectives. In other words, human resource planning is all about finding out in advance how many workers are needed to perform the tasks, how many employees with the required skills are available within and outside the organization and how is it possible to fulfil the staffing needs of the organization when needed. Human resource planning is not new. It has been practised by many organizations in the past as well, in order to ensure that the right person does the right job at the right time. However, in the past the nature of human resource planning practised by many organizations was slightly different to what it is today. This was because, the environmental conditions in the olden days were stable and certain, and as a result, the human resource planning was mainly focussed towards the short term demand for labour.
But today, with the increasing nature of environmental stability, changes in technology and the ever increasing competition, the nature of human resource planning has changed thus focusing on both the short term and the long term labour needs of the organizations. In other words, they not only plan the workforce for the current situation, but also for the many years ahead. If not, then the organizations that do not plan for the future have not much of opportunities to survive the increasing competition.
Human resources planning anticipate not only the required kind and number of employees but also determine the action plan for all functions of personnel management
Although human resource planning is a very useful method, it has some limitations which can be explained as follows

- The future is uncertain:
Forecasting of changes in technological, social economic, and political conditions cannot be made with accuracy. Human