HR PLANNING

Human resource planning is a process of different activities which in result shows the consequences of those activities. Human resource planning is the term used to describe how companies ensure that their staffs are the right staff to do the jobs. Sub topics include planning for staff retention, planning for candidate search, training and skills analysis and much more. (Human Resource Planning, 2002-2009)HR planning includes wide range of jobs: planning, recruitment and selection, training, career progression, retirement, strategy, competition, globalisation, legislation or development. There could be a lot of problems which companies might face if the organisation will not do HR planning. For example one of the problems could be to find skilled employees suitable for the positions inside the firm. There is also a risk that the employees will not have a proper training or their performance could be very low.

Alec Roger psychologist from Australia had created in 1952 seven point person specification (Foot and Hook, 2009) The seven points are:

1. Physical make-up	health, physique, appearance, bearing, speech (exclude discriminatory features such as accent)
2. Attainments	education, training, experience, achievements
3. Intelligence	Cognitive ability, learning capacity, analytical ability, ability to synthesise
4. Special aptitudes	e.g. construction, equipment, dexterity, mathematical, IT ability etc
5. Interests	intellectual, practical, active, social
6. Disposition	maturity, self-reliance, compassion, humour
7. Circumstances	geographical mobility (excluding discriminatory factors such as age, children, marital status etc - unless specifically relevant to job)

(Bola.biz, 2010)

Person specification for a university lecturer:

· Good honours degree

· Appropriate IT skills

· Smart looking person

· Adaptable to change

· Demonstrate team working and interpersonal skills

· Commitment to working within university procedures

· Passionate about teaching

· Intelligent

· Good in psychology

· Experienced in teaching

· Qualified for the position

· Believe in people

If the Waitrose were considering opening new store in High Wycombe the HR person will need to ask:

1. Who are the main competitors in this area.

2. People‘s income in the area, Waitrose is more expensive then Asda.

3. Population and demographic.

4. Amount of training might be required.

5. Availability of labour in the area.

REFERENCES:

1. Bola.biz, 2010,Business learning achieve, Alec Rodger, Seven point plan-online source

Available from:

http://www.bola.biz/recruitment/rodger.html

(Accessed 01 May 2010)

2. Human Resource Planning (2002-2009) Strategic and business planning, free resource centre-online source

Available from:

http://work911.com/planningmaster/Human_Resource_Planning/

(Accessed 01 may 2010)