Introduction
Human Resource planning involves matching the internal and external supply of people with job openings anticipated in the organization over a specified period. However, there is a growing mismatch between emerging jobs and qualified people available to fill them. The labor pool is changing as companies try to cope with rapid technological shifts and increasing globalization of the economy. The adequacy of the labor pool is vital to the success of any organization in that sense also to global organization. If global employees are to be developed properly, they must be technologically and cross-culturally trained to help broaden their perspectives and relationships, preparing them to deal effectively with organizational changes.
Human Resource planning is the process of systematically reviewing human resource requirement to ensure that the required numbers of employees, with the required skills are available when they are needed. Human resources planning mean forecasting personnel needs and detailing the steps necessary to meet these needs. HR planning consists of developing and implementing plans and programs that will ensure that the right number and type of individuals are available at the right time and place to fulfill organizational needs.
Characteristics of human resource planning
The characteristics of human resource planning are as follows:
a. Access of Present HR Situation: HRP attemps to know the present situation of human resource prevaliling in an organization. It determines the surplus or shortages of human resources. It studies the capacity knowledge, skills possessed by the human resource in the present context.
b. Estimation of Human Resource: HRP identifies the quantity of employees required for an organization. Employee’s skills and the time frame over which vacancies will occur is also studied and analyzed by the HRP.
c. Forecasting future skill requirement: HRP not only consider the present situation of HR but also focuses on the future skill requirement.
d. Improving productivity of human resource: HRP helps to increase the productivity of human resource. Employees are created and maintained in such a way so that their level of performance can be increased.
e. Ensuring of dynamic human resources: the organization must cope with the dynamic environment and for this human resources must be flexible in order to fit the dynamic environment.
Importance of HRP
HRP has a vital importance in any organization. Importance can be dealt as follows:
a. Future personnel fulfillment: since the HRP specially concentrate on the requirement of HR in the future, the quantity and quality required by the organization in future are studied and fulfill. This action will balance the demand and supply of human resources.
b. Coping with changes: The external environment always keeps changing. This change may oppose threats and challenges to the organization. HRP advocates training & developing human resources so that they cope with the dynamic environment. Therefore HRP is of great importance.
c. Staffing management: HRP answer to the question like: who will repale the retiring the chief executive? From what pool of employees executive are selected? Thus HRP looks after the staff management.
d. Foundation for personnel management: personnel function such as recruitment, selection, maintenance, training and development are design and implemented through HRP. Personnel movement such as transfer promotions, lay off are also handled by HRP.
e. Increasing investment in HR: Employees who develops their skills and abilities become more valuable resources. Organization makes investments in its personnel either through direct training or job assignment. Carrier development of employed are looked after by the HRP.
f. Resistance to change and move: HRP gives training and development program to HR and due to this the adopatability of HR increases. This will make the personnel able to work in a dynamic environment without any kinds of resistance. If the changing power or adoptability developed in human resource the external environment opposing the threats can be changed into oppositions.
g. Helps in growth expansion and diversification of organization: HRP enables the organization to achieve high level of performance by placing right person on the right job at the right time. It motivates the employees, provides job satisfaction, develops carrier of employment. This finally aid to get the objectives of an organization in a desired way.
Conclusion:
Following are the concluding remarks on HRP
- To reduce cost by anticipating and correcting labor shortages and surpluses before they became unmanageable and expensive.
- Make optimum use of worker’s aptitude and skills.
- Improve overall business planning process.
- Identify the specific skills available and needed.
