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1. Course Description

In a competitive market, organizations always focus on manpower rationalization. Market globalization, economic slowdown, and any eventual business uncertainties require organizations to restructure the manpower. Although such manpower restructuring need not always be rightsizing (leading to manpower redundancy), many organizations, particular those who undertake project based job orders, require to procure at time additional manpower, even on short notices. This syndrome is evident in IT and IT enabled services (ITeS) organizations, in retail industry, and in infrastructure development companies who executes engineering and civil projects. These apart, many consumer durable companies, FMCG organizations, automobiles manufacturing units today follow market driven approach of production planning. Lean management practices require such organizations to scale down their manpower requirement to the bare minimum, while creating a buffer of manpower inventory with their vendors to whom they outsource their non-core activities.

Human resource planning precedes manpower procurement, i.e., recruitment and selection functions. By understanding the basics of manpower planning, students would be able to develop their expertise in successfully planning the manpower requirements, pacing with the strategic needs of the organizations. This course will take students through the theoretical rigour (including tools) and practical insights, through case analysis, projects, and exposure to corporate practices, etc.

2. Student Learning Outcomes

After going through this course, students would be able to develop following skill-sets and knowledge base:

1. To understand various theoretical issues on human resource planning, including use of various quantitative and qualitative tools.
2. To develop knowledge and expertise in effective human resource planning integrating with learned theories with the organizational practices.
3. To understand the linkage of human resource planning with the strategies and business goals of the organizations.
4. To review the human resource planning systems in organizations.
5. To solve case problems on human resource planning.

Human Resource Planning, Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya, Excel Books, New Delhi, 3rd edition, 2012.

Supplemental reading materials, as may be required will be given time to time.

4. Tentative Session Plan

Session	Topics/Activities	Reading/Case List etc.
1	Understanding human resource management, policies and strategies	Chapters 1 and 2
2	-continued-	Chapters 1 and 2
3	Concepts of human resource planning (HRP) and HRP strategies	Chapter-3
4	HRP Process	Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7
5	-continued-	-do-
6	-continued-	-do-
7	-continued-	-do-
8	HRP Recruitment, Selection and Induction	Chapter-8
9	Career Planning, Development and Succession Planning	Chapter-9
10	Training and Performance Appraisal	Chapter-10
11	Skills and Multi-skilling	Chapter-11
12	HRP, Transfer, Promotion and Job Rotation	Chapter-12
13	HRIS, HR Costs, and HR Accounting and Audit	Chapters-13, 14, and 15.
14	Emerging Trends and Issues in HRP	Chapter-16
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20	Presentations by students on case assignments	Case assignments will be given time to time

5. Evaluation
· Case Studies (two written submission) 20
· HRP Exercises 20
· Project Assignments 20
· Presentations 10
· End-term Examination 30

6. Academic Integrity

Students have to show highest level of academic integrity in writing their assignments, giving presentations, and answering to the exercises, including their end-term examination. Plagiarism, copying, etc, will be seriously viewed, and anybody found to be in this will be penalized, like; no grades, expulsion from the programme, repeating the programme, etc., depending on the nature of offense. Faculty will be available for on-line help also, as may be required by the students time to time. Personal meeting with the faculty, if required may be arranged with prior appointment.

Created By: Debasis Mohanty on 05/17/2012 at 09:03 AM
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