Planning is a function of management. According to the structure and strategic of an organization, planning requires administration to assess. In the following essay, it will be more focus on the importance of Human Resource Planning to management.
Introduction of human resource planning
Human resource planning determines the human resources which are required by an organisation in order to achieve its strategic goals. According to Bulla and Scott (1994), an organisation is supposed to identify all its human resource requirements, and human resource planning is the process to make sure that all of those requirements are satisfied. In human resource planning, people are defined as the most important strategic resource. Human resource planning is concerned to achieve both long term requirements and short term requirements of an organisation. For an organisation, the effectiveness could be improved by the employment and development of people, as a result of applying human resource planning. Therefore, human resource planning plays an important role in management.
The contribution of Human Resource Planning
Applying human resource planning could help an organisation to increase the productivity of employees by several ways, such as offering monetary incentives, improving job skills of employees to produce more in less time or at lower cost, redesigning work process and methods in order to achieve greater outputs, and using more efficient equipment so that greater outputs could be achieved.
The evolution of human resource planning brings many developments to current society. Firstly, the human resource information system is computerised. Secondly, the links between the activities of human resource manager became much closer to the business environment. Lastly, the skill databases are improved in order to adjust to shortages of skills.
Human resource planning plays an important role in business planning. The goals and behaviour and skill
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