UNIT -3
MANPOWER PLANNING
3.2 MANPOWER PLANNING :-
→ Manpower planning is essentially acquiring the right kind of people into the right jobs and at the right time.
Features of Manpower Planning as :-
(1) It is a managerial function.
(2) It is a process not a single activity.
(3) It is qualitative and quantitiative in nature.
(4) Manpower planning is forward-looking function.
(5) It begings with estaablishment of overall objectives and human resource objetives in particular.
• Objectives of Man power Planning as :-
(1) Manpower planning detemines the future needs of manpower to meet the objectives of teh organizations.
(2) It aims at essessing teh surplus or shortage of manpower and develops strategies to deal with them effectively.
(3) It enables the organization to meet teh needs of programmed expansions, diversification, and growthh of the organization.
(4) It minimize the dangerous caused by the non-availability of required manpower.
(5) Manpower planning enables to foresce the employe turnover adn guide in the development of retentian strategies.
(6) Manpower planning makes it possible to use the existing humna resources more effectively and productively.
(7) A sound manpower planning economices wage an salary cost and other human resource cost in the end.
(8) It provides a basis for plannign the human resource training and development programmers in the future.
(9) Manpower planning provides a guidance to design and execute an appropriate promotion policy in the organization.
• Significance of Manpower Planning as :-
(1) Growth
(2) Talent management
(3) Facilitates planning.
(4) Cost control
(5) Succession Planning
3.2 MANPOWER PLANNING MODEL :-
→ Steps required in manpower planning as:-
(1) Examining organizational objectives and policies.
(2) Assessing manpower demand.
(3) Forecasting supply of manpower.
(4) Gap analysis.
(5) Designing manpower programmers
(6) Manpower plan inplementation.
(7) Evaluation and feedback.
3.5 MAKING MANPOWER PLANNING EFFECTIVE :-
→ Following are soem guidelines to be followed for making manpower planning effective.
(1) Corporate Objectives.
(2) Coordination.
(3) Top management support.
(4) Information system.
