This document outlines the meaning, importance, objectives, and steps of human resource planning. HR planning is defined as selecting the right number of qualified people at the right time to help an organization meet its goals. It is important for talent reservoirs, preparing people for the future, business expansion, and succession planning. The objectives are to forecast personnel needs, cope with changes, use existing staff productively, and promote employees systematically. The steps are forecasting demand, preparing manpower inventories, determining gaps, and creating recruitment, training, productivity, and redeployment plans with support from top management and HR information systems.

1. Human Resource
Planning- Meaning and
its Steps

2. Meaning
HR Planning is the process of
selecting the right no. of
qualified people to the right job
at the right time so that the
organization can meet its
objectives.

3. Importance of HR
Planning
● Reservoir of Talent
● Prepare People for
Future
● Expand the Business
● Succession Planning

4. Objectives of
HR Planning
● Forecast Personnel
Requirements.
● Cope with changes.
● Use Existing manpower
productively
● Promote Employees in
a systematic manner.

5. Steps in Human
Resource Planning
Process
● Forecasting the Demand of HR
○ External Challenges
○ Organizational Decision
○ Workforce Factor
○ Forecasting Techniques
● Preparing Manpower Inventory/
Supply Forecast
○ Internal Factors
○ External Factors

6. Steps in Human
Resource
Planning
Process
● Determining Manpower Gaps
● HR Plans
○ Recruitment Plan
○ Training Plan
○ Productivity Plan
○ Redeployment Plan

7. Effective HR
Planning ● Objectives
● Top Management
Support
● HR Information System
● Coordination