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PGDM 2010-12: Term-VI

Human Resource Planning (3 credits)
Prof. Dipak K Bhattacharyya

Introduction

In a competitive market, organizations always focus on manpower rationalisation. Market globalisation, 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.

Course Objectives

For obvious importance of human resource planning in a globalised era, this course has been designed to achieve the following objectives:


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. Course contents

The course will cover following areas:

1. Understanding human resource management, policies and strategies
2. Concepts of human resource planning (HRP) and HRP strategies
3. HRP process, job design
4. HRP, Recruitment, Selection and Induction
5. HRP, career planning, development and succession planning
6. HRP, Training and Performance Appraisal
7. HRP, skills, and multi-skilling
8. HRP, Transfer, promotion and Job rotation
9. HRP and HRIS, HR costs, and audit

Students’ Evaluation

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Text

1. Bhattacharyya, D.K. (2006), Human Resource Planning, 2nd edition, Excel Books, New Delhi. Further Readings

2. Benninson, Malcolm, and Jonathan, C. (1983), The manpower planning handbook, McGraw-Hill, London.
3. Barrie, O. Pettman, and Genard, Taowernier (1976), Manpower Planning workbook, Grover Publishing Company, Vermont, U.S.A.
4. Bramham, John (1994), Human Resource Planning, University Press (India) Limited, Hyderabad
5. Bharracharyya, D.K. (2007), Human Resource Research Methods, Chapter-5, Human Resource Planning Research (pp. 129 – 177).



Created By: Debasis Mohanty on 12/01/2011 at 11:21 AM
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