Contribution of Human Resources Planning

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Organisations need the required number of workforce and capabilities to meet present and future business requirements. This is the function of Human Resource Planning, or workforce planning as it is sometimes called in the Public Sector as well as private sector. According to Bulla and Sah (1994), Human Resource Planning is the process for ensuring that the human resource requirements of an organization are identified and plans are made for satisfying those requirements. Reilly (2003) defined workforce planning as; “A process in which an organization attempts to estimate the demand for labour and evaluate the size, nature and sources of supply which will be required to meet the demand.” The primary goal of Human Resource Planning is to add value to the company. This includes programs like employee training, an improved recruitment process, law suit prevention, and benefits cost control. Human Resource Department is based on the belief that people are an organisations most important strategic resource because it controls all other resources in organization. It is generally concerned with matching resources to business needs in the larger term although it will sometimes address shorter term requirements (Armstrong, 2009). Further Human Resource Planning seeks to address human resource needs qualitatively and quantitatively by comparing what the organization has and what it is supposed to have in terms of numbers of people and also the types of people in terms of skills the organization has and what it is supposed to have both currently and the distant future, (Armstrong, 2009). It is a decision making process that combines three important activities, firstly identifying and acquiring the right number of people with the right skills, secondly motivating them to achieve high performance and thirdly creating interactive links between business objectives and
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