Strategic Human Resource Planning

Statement of Need

In this modern era organizations are expected to operate cost-effectively. Gone are the days of over employing staff, hiring unqualified people or even under employing. Either way, businesses were affected. Qualified people should occupy their rightful positions.  This however requires organizations to ascertain their future business niche, and come up with the correct establishment before filling vacancies. The programme focuses on determining future HR organizational needs (demand forecasting), assessing current employees’ performance motivation and potential (supply analysis), comparing future HR demand and current HR supply to determine possible HR surplus or deficit. In the end, the programme trains participants to formulate various HR plans whose amalgamation would result in the grand HR plan for the organization.

Who Attends

This programme is a must for HR practitioners assigned the planning function, officers in HRM who wish to multi-skill, and those who have joined the function without profound HR planning skills.

How participants will benefit

At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Scan the internal and external environments;
• Analyze planning experiences in the AFRICAN continent;
• Apply HR demand and forecasting techniques;
• Develop an organizational HR plan.

Topics Include

• The Resource Based-View of HRM Strategy
• Human Resource Productivity
• External and internal environmental scanning; 
• Planning experiences in the African environment;
• Methods of gathering information for HRP;
• HR demand forecasting techniques;
• HR supply analysis process;
• Developing the organizational HR plan.