3.3 Link Between HR Planning and Strategy

Question 1

Job analysis:

Answer 1

HR professionals must understand job descriptions and specifications within the firm and then adapt human resource planning so it’s aligned with those descriptions and specifications.

Question 2

Recruitment and selection:

Answer 2

HRP indicates how many and what types of people the organization needs to recruit.

Question 3

Training and development:

Answer 3

HRP helps the organization forecast shortages in the labor force as well as areas where skills may become obsolete.

Question 4

Career management:

Answer 4

Effective HRP supports career management programs within the organization and helps retain valued employees, which reduces employee turnover and absenteeism.

Question 5

4 Phases of Human Resource Planning

Answer 5

Gathering, analyzing, and forecasting data to develop an HR supply and demand forecast

Establishing HR objectives and policies and gaining approval and support for them from top management

Designing and implementing plans and action programs in such areas as recruitment, training, and promotion that will enable the organization to achieve its HR objectives

Controlling and evaluating HRM plans and programs to facilitate progress toward HR objectives

Question 6

True or False: Few small- and medium-sized organizations can be successful without a formal process for estimating future human resource needs.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False: Because knowing the estimates for the organization’s human resource needs (e.g. supply and demand) is so critical, most small- and medium-sized organizations formally estimate these future human resource needs.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What occurs in the first stage of human resource planning as talked about earlier?

Answer 8

Gathering, analyzing and forecasting data

Question 9

True or False: HRP is very important to an organization to find out its needs, but it is a distant relation to other functions such as recruitment and selection, job performance, etc.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Which of the following is not a question that HR professionals need to ask of internal managers when starting to forecast the organization’s human resource needs?

Answer 10

What is it going to cost to implement the HR plans?