Answer to Question #253764 in Management for Neha

Question

3. Arun Gupta, the VP – HR of ‘Synoptic Tech Solutions Ltd’ assigned the task of assessing the effectiveness of its human resource planning to the HR Department. However, his team informed him that this assessment is not going well as they had expected. Keeping this context in mind, answer the following:

a. The HR department is facing certain problems in human resource planning. Explain what barriers you think they are facing in effective implementation of human resource planning. Give some suggestions on how to overcome them.

b. What suggestions will you give them for forecasting human resource requirements in case the company plans to expand? Suggest any 3 methods. Which one do you think is

most effective for an IT firm?

Answer 1

• Question a
• HR professionals are thought to be experts in dealing with personnel issues, but not in business management. When HR practitioners' personnel plans get entwined with the organization's strategic plan, the organization's overall strategic plan may become ineffective.
• HR data is frequently incompatible with other data used in strategy development. Financial forecasting has long dominated strategic planning efforts, often to the exclusion of different sorts of data. HRP takes a back seat to economic forecasting.
• There may be a conflict between short-term and long-term HR requirements. For example, there may be a tension between the requirement to complete tasks on time and longer-term goals, such as preparing individuals to take on more responsibility. Many executives believe that their HR demands can be satisfied right away because skills are readily available on the market, as long as wages and prices are competitive. As a result, long-term plans are not required; only short-term planning is needed.

Question b

1. Nominal procedur: A nominal group exists only in name, with members interacting minimally before making a decision. Participants are invited to write down their thoughts in an anonymous manner. It makes it easier to keep track of time. As a result, the decision-making process is sped up. It's a time-saving method.
2. Brainstorming is a group or individual creativity process in which members work together to solve an issue by generating a list of ideas that come to them spontaneously (s). The members of the group keep a tight task focus.
3. Ratio Analysis is a forecasting technique that uses ratios between, for example, sales volume and the number of employees required to determine future staffing needs. It entails developing projections based on the ratio of any causal element to the required number of personnel. Ratio analysis is based on the assumption that productivity remains constant.