Reading 4: HR PLANNING (HRP)
Gregory John Lee
1 Introduction
Recall the definition of human resource strategy:
Human resource strategy…
…is the pattern of planned human resource deployments and activities intended to enable the organisation to achieve its goals.
Human resource planning (or HRP for short) is all about the first (underlined) function in the definition above. It is the absolutely vital function that look firstly at strategy, and then deploys the necessary human capital (people) where it is called for in the organisation by the strategy.
HRP therefore falls into the wider area of employee resourcing (planning for, acquiring and allocating the desired human resources for the organisation). We saw in the Armstrong diagram (Figure 1 of Reading 1) that employee resourcing is an arm of the HR function. See the diagrammatic version on the next page, which serves just to highlight the topics included in this arm of HRM.
HRP entails knowing in advance......
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