Human Resources Planning.

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Careful planning is vital to any business, in order for it to recognise what kind of employees they need to suit the environment in which they will be working. For this to work, the business must have good knowledge of the surrounding area, by considering trends in local employment, shortages of skills, availability of labour and the competition for employees.

In order to predict the human resources needed by a business, it is necessary to think carefully about the future plans it wants to fulfil.

To do this, business could either try management estimates or work study techniques. Management estimates is where managers are to discover staff needs, by analysing past, present and possible future needs. Work-study techniques are working out how long jobs take with the suitable equipment, in order to discover how many employees are needed and the hours they are needed for.

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When an organisation needs to determine the supply of labour obtainable, they must evaluate how many people are available to work, the duration they can work for, their capability to do the necessary jobs, their efficiency, etc.

There is internal supply, contained by the organisation, and external supply, which comes from the labour market.

Internal supply

To work out the internal supply, certain information must be evaluated, like:

        The number of employees in specific job areas

        

        The possibility of employees gaining promotion

        Age range

               

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