scholarly journals The role of human resource planning in producing well-resourced employees to public

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Njabulo Khumalo

The term Human Resource Planning (HRP) can be used to achieve organizational objectives by understanding and planning for employees’ needs in the short, medium and long term in order to deliver desired results. Little research that has been conducted on HRP and most are from the private sector and none to be found in the public sector. This study was conducted in the public institution in South Africa. The literature consulted provides an overview that HRP solves current and future organizational problems by ensuring that the right people are in the right place at the right time. This is achieved by analyzing the current profile of the workforce and comparing it with future needs so that gaps, which need to be filled, can be identified. The paper intended to investigate the extent to which employees are well-resourced to perform their duties in centres of the municipality to the community. The investigation used mixed methods in its data collection. 45 participants participated in responding the self-administered questionnaire and seven participated in one-on-one interviews. The study found that half of employees who are working for the centres of the municipality includes supervisors who lack educational attainments, as they hold only grade 12 and no development was initiated. The study recommended the whole the municipality to establish and implement a promotion policy. All necessary equipment and tools provided were insufficient, as required by the Act, to provide all services to the public.

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Hedy Isaacs

Human resources planning is becoming more important as the Public Services (primarily of Belize, Grenada, Guyana and Jamaica) face the scarcity of “human capital”, and begin to plan for, rather than react to, human resource management problems. The effectiveness of human resource planning depends largely on how well the information resource is managed. This article focuses on general considerations for implementing and managing human resource information systems, shares related Caribbean experiences and imperatives for the future.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Siti Normi

This article discusses human resource planning issues as strategy to response dynamic and competitive business environment changes to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Also this article discusses how the stages and human resource planning process in short term, intermediate term and long term, and discusses about how long the linkage between humen resource and strategic business planning are administrative linkage, one-way linkage, two-way linkage, and integrative linkage. The last section in this article discusses the importance gaining competitive advantage sources and human resource concentration related with business issues as the action to integrate human resource fuction in the strategic business.


Media Wisata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Rokhmi Lestari

The aim of this study is to describe the planning and development of lecturers human resources in AMPTA Tourism School as well as to know the professionalism of lecturers and quality assurance in the AMPTA Tourism School of Yogyakarta. From this study, it can be concluded that, in general, the human resource planning and development of lecturers, as well as quality assurance in AMPTA Tourism School, have not been fully implemented in accordance with the existing regulations and legislation.However, AMPTA Tourism School is on the right track in terms of lecturers professionalism development and networking establishment with external stakeholders. Implementation of human resources development is carried out through formal and informal ways.


Author(s):  
Rajesh K. Yadav ◽  
Nishant Dabhade

Prompt advancement in product / service and process technology, many operations in the manufacturing and service industries in recent years require competitive HR practices. So this research study stresses on HR planning and audit practices. HR planning is all about good management; good strategic management; good business management and particularly good people management. It is important that you put thought and careful planning into your human resource practices. And the purpose of the HR Audit is to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the HR function to identify areas of strength and weakness and where improvements may be needed. Conducting an audit involves a review of current practices, policies, and procedures, and may include benchmarking against organizations of similar size and/or industry. This research aims to figure out the practices, employee perception and measures adopted by HEG limited for Human resource planning and audit. Chi square test is applied at (.05 or 5 %) significance level in this paper to check the authenticity of data given by the respondents. Findings suggests that it is difficult to assess accurate HR planning and adopting accurate audit practices because practices itself does not produce right or wrong answers, but it produces a series of alternatives from which the right course of action can be chosen.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Njabulo Khumalo

The paper aimed to identify the obstacles of Human Resource Planning (HRP) that affect workers in delivering quality services to public within the customer centres of the municipality located in South Africa (SA). Since, HRP is well known as a tool that resolves the existing and future organization obstacles by confirming that the right employees are placed in the right positions at the right time. The investigation of the paper used mixed methods, which encompasses both qualitative and quantitative methods in its data collection. From the target, only 45 workers completed a questionnaire and only seven supervisors participated in one-on-one interviews. Results reveal the lack of both internal and external factors, which include a shortage of workers to perform the duties of the municipal in the customer centres. This includes demographic issues, lack of education qualifications, recruitment policies, insufficient working tools, working environment and career growth. The recommendation is to implement a strategical recognition for good performance to workers and to look for other venues with enough space to deliver quality services. Lastly, there is a need to establish and implement strategies of promotion and growth within the municipality.


Author(s):  
Hasan Elsan Mansaray

The drive for human resource planning in every single organization is to necessitate perfect use of human resource currently employed as well as, making provision for the future human resource needs regarding skills, quantities and ages. The purpose of this review is to ascertain the practices of HRP that can increase organizational performance. Consequently, the review discovered that HR planning ensures that organizations at all times have the right number of people, with the correct level of skills to do the right activities at the right time for the achievement of organizational objectives. Besides, human resource planning determines the right numerical strength of individuals that own these skills that are needed by organisations to meet the present and future business requirements. Based on this reality, organisations nowadays need to have employees that possess the right skills that could be place in the right places and at the right time they would be needed in organizations. In order to fulfill this condition, the study found out that HR planning ought to be part of any organization’s objective. Incredibly, many organizations have the tendency of overlooking the side of HR planning and more or less, organizations are even not totally conscious of it. Hence, it is essential to recognize that because of the high knowledge requirements in the global market, most organizations are determine to stimulate performance, which can engender surplus profit through the application of HRP philosophy.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 583-584
Author(s):  
Desmond Leddin

In 2002, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) conducted a survey of the membership, the results of which were reviewed and developed by the Past Presidents' Council into a long term strategic plan. Survey findings and the resulting strategic plan were published earlier this year in The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and can be reviewed on the CAG Web site at http://www.pulsus.com/Gastro/18_01/Pdf/newe_ed.pdf and http://www.pulsus.com/Gastro/18_02/Pdf/newe_ed.pdf. Members repeatedly noted the importance of collecting statistics on gastroenterology in Canada and addressing human resource issues.


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