Human Resources Planning

Human resources, Laboure economics, Employment

Human resource planning has many different purposes within an organisation, one of the most basic purposes is that it can be a tool that could be used to asses whether an organisation has the right amount of employees with the correct knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to carry out the job effectively while at the same time achieving the organisational goals. Since the 1990’s human resources planning has rapidly evolved. One such change being the move from manpower planning towards human resource planning. Manpower planning would have focused on acquiring, improving and retraining current employees. It was seen as a ‘hard’ approach as it dealt with quantitative forecasting of labour supply and demand, whereas human resource planning anticipates the skills and the number of employees needed when a business strategy is going to be put into place, is also seen as