Q.1 What are the five steps in Manpower Planning?Ans:-
The employment process begins with manpower planning i.e. the forecasting anddetermination of the exact personnel requirements and a company and the specification of thestrategies and tactics for the acquisition, utilization, improvement and preservation of its humanresources. The aim of manpower planning is to avoid shortfalls and surpluses of labour.Shortages lead to over utilization while surpluses lead to redundancy and underutilization of manpower. With manpower planning, a firm does not react to each new set of circumstances onthe basis of the short-term personnel needs which they present. Rather, the systematic steps thatare taken provide overall co-ordination, direction, and logic for its personnel decisions.Man power planning is defined by Vetter as:“the process by which management determines howthe organization should move from its current manpower position to its desired manpower position.”Through planning, the management strives to have the right number and right kind of people , atright places, at the right time, doing things which result in both the organization and theindividual receiving maximum long run benefit.According to Gordon MacBeath, manpower planning involves two stages. The first stage isconcerned with the detailed “ planning of manpower requirement for all types and levels of employees throughout the period of plan.,” and the second stage is concerned with “ the planningof manpower supplies to provide the organization with the right type of people from all sourcesto meet the planned requirements.”
The main steps involved in manpower planning are as follows:
1.
Ascertain objectives and operating plans
: The first step in manpower planning is toascertain the objectives and operating plans of the company. This is because it is the company’s plans and anticipated levels of