Manpower Planning Flashcards
What is Manpower Planning?
Manpower Planning (or Human Resource Planning) involves having the right number of people with the best skillset in the right place and time, doing the tasks which they are suited for the achievement of the organusation’s goals and objectives
What is Staffing?
Staffing isa key managerial function. Without people, companies cannot meet their objectives. Organisations should be designed to achieve its objectives. Each department must be staffed so that the available skills
and abilities are equated with tasks to be done
How are organisation’s dependent on human resources?
Organisations should develop strategies that will increase present and future manpower. Manpower planning should be important to corporate planning since individual skills must be continuously developed to meet technological, economic and social change.
Why must a company be able to recruit and retain?
A company must be able to recruit and retain manpower of the type and abilities it requires for efficient operation. Some jobs need increased skills, others less. Thus a high standard of planning needed
What should companies do for the recruitment and selection process?
The recruitment and selection process should continually be reviewed and evaluated in order to minimise costs and labour turnover
What should manpower plan include?
Consideration of polices
What is the process of Manpower Planning?
Examine the existing situation, assess and determine future objectives, develop employment programmes and design training programmes
What is the examine process used for?
Used if organisational and staffing effectiveness can be improved. Procedures for examining current situations include job analysis and grading, work load analysis and performance appraisals
What is the assess and determine process used for?
Breaking down objectives into posts and identify precise requirements for all types of manpower while comparing present and future needs, designing job descriptions and evaluating employee skills
When should you develop employment programmes?
Once the current situation is compared with future forecasts allows for the development of employment programs, including recruitment, selection procedures and placement plans
What influences the develop training programmes?
The strategies will be influenced by diversification, expansion plans, technology advancement, and workforce skill enhancement
What are the factors that impact manpower?
The factors are: Technological, Economic, Social and Political
What is the Technological factor?
Changes in materials, technical systems and methods
What is the Economic factor?
Changes in external markets, supply of local labour skills, comparative earnings for each category of employee, capital formation
What is the Social factor?
Population trends, social mobility and education
