Human Resource Management Tutorials

1. Why organization needs a good Human Resource planning? State your reasons.

Answer:

Human Resource Planning is an important core to an organization, but everyone will question what Human Resource Planning is? Human resource Planning can be defined as plan the human. The main objective of having human resource planning is to have an accurate number of employees required, with matching skill requirement to accomplish organization goals.

The reason why we need good human resource planning:

a.      Recruit the right person to match organization needs

Labor force is one of main resource to a company. Human resource manager should ensure that the person that recruits is match organization needs. If we recruit the wrong person to an organization, that organization will suffer for a period of time and cost a lot such as time and money. Recruitment is a very serious process meanwhile Human Resource Manager has to know who and what particular position they need to hired.

b.      Ensure that employees are allocated in the right position.

As we know that there have large number of employees within an organization. For those who die, who retire or quit the job need to be replaced by the new employees which are capable to that position. Human resource planning ensures smooth supply of workers without interruption. Example such as when employee A who in marketing position had leave the organization, Human Resource have to replace someone who is match and capable for that position.

    2. What should be the key elements in Human Resource planning? Discuss the relationship among them in your selected organization.

Answer:

Three key elements of the HR planning are forecasting staffing needs, evaluating supply, balance supply and demand. Forecasting the number of employees needed to run the business, evaluate the internal and external supply needs, and balance both supply and demand needs within the company. The HR planning model seeks to manage these changes proactively. This model helps HR manager to forecast whether there will be a shortage or surplus of the workers in order to fill the needs of the company.

   3. What are both quantitative & qualitative approaches to Human Resource forecasting? Based on your opinion, which approach is more practical to your selected organization?

Answer:

The quantitative approaches that used in human resource forecasting are ratio analysis and computerize forecasting the number of employees needed in an organization. The qualitative approaches that used in human resource forecasting are Delphi technique and Nominal Group technique. Delphi technique is widely used for a group decision-making and gathering data from respondents within their domain and expertise. Besides, Nominal group technique is a creative method that used to minimizes the personal exposure of individuals (Sharing ideas & Votes) that involving problem identification, solutions and decision making. So, practicability between them are popular among smaller firms is depending on the situation. For example, Apple companies are using Delphi technique which is more efficient than Nominal Group technique.