Objectives of HRP and Purposes of HRP

Objectives of HRP

To achieve more effective and efficient use of employees

To better recruit employees who possess the necessary skills and competences.

To achieve a higher rate of satisfied employee.

To facilitate training and development programmes.

To facilitate the roll-out of strategic plans / missions.

To achieve more effective equal opportunity planning.

To relieve the organization of unnecessary / unneeded labour.

Ensure organization is responsive to changes in environment.

Purposes of HRP

The general purpose of human resource planning are

Determining recruitment needs: An important prerequisite to the process of recruitment is to avoid problems of unexpected shortages, wastage, blockages in the promotion flow and needless redundancies.

Determining training needs: Planning training programmes are very important. These programmes not only improve quantity but also quality in terms of the skills required by the organization.

Management development: A succession of trained and experienced managers is essential to the effectiveness of the organization, and this depends on accurate information about present and future requirements in all management posts.

Balancing the cost between the utilization of plant and workforce: Cost balancing includes comparison of costs between these two resources in different combinations and selecting the optimum. While costing projects cost balancing plays an important role.

Industrial relation: the businesses plan will, of necessity; make assumptions about productivity of the human resource. It will have an impact on the organization’s industrial relations strategies.