Week 11 - HR Planning

HR Planning is vital for an organisation. It is the process which regards and maps out the consequences of business strategy on an organisation’s human resources.

The main areas in which HR deals with are:
· Training and re-training.
· Career progression
· Recruitment
· Selection
· Redeployment and transfers
· Earlier retirement
· Skills shortages expectancy
· Redundancies
· Retention difficulties

Person Specification for a university lecturer:
· Physical makeup
· Attainments
· Intelligence
· Special aptitudes
· Interests
· Disposition
· Circumstances

If Waitrose were to consider opening a new store in High Wycombe; five key labour questions would be:

1. How many employees and managers will this store need?To start off this process they will need to come up with the jobs and work out how many employees they will need in order to successfully open the new store. Planning is needed and only once it is found out how many will be needed that recruitment and selection can begin.

2. Where would Waitrose be able to advertise and publicise their jobs?Job centres would need to be informed about the new store and the jobs so that they can provide their contacts with the opportunity to take part in this new store. Online job websites are also a useful place to advertise and the internet is now more popular than a newspaper and more people are likely to see it online than in written form.

3. Does High Wycombe have good public transport near to where the new store will open?It is very important that this aspect is looked into because many people use public transport and some people may not live in High Wycombe yet still want the job so they need to consider how easy or difficult it is for people to easily access the new store.

4. What kinds of shifts will people be doing? Shift work is very popular these days as people like to be able to work flexibly and in hours that can suit them best so it would be a good idea to consider the idea of having different times of shifts so there is more opportunity to get more employees because of the flexibility of the hours.