1. Department of management studies
Human resource management
Topic- Planning with people in mind
by D. Quinn Mills
Strategic planning
2. • What is planning?
• How many people are required for the jobs?
• What sort of people the organisation must have?
• How could the business prepare present HR to meet the changing micro and
macro environment requirement?
3. It direct where to go
Decrease the degree of risk.
It gives innovative ideas
Decrease overlapping and wasteful ideas.
Objective of the company are clear to every employee.
4. • Industrial revolution
The basic philosophy of managing workers revolved around master-servant relationship.
• Trade Union Movement Era
Shortly after the emergence of factory system, workers started to organize themselves based
on their common interests to form workers' associations which were subsequently known as
trade unions.
• Social Responsibility Era
In the first decade of 20th century, some factory owners started adopting a more humanistic
and paternalistic approach towards workers.
5. • SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
To improve efficiency and speed FWTaylor advocated scientific management
• HUMAN RELATIONS MOVEMENT
(i) social factors at the workplace, (ii) group formation and group influence, (iii) nature of
leadership and supervision, and (iv) communication.
• The Human Resource Development approach
Human resource development is the integrated use of training, organization, and career
development efforts to improve individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.
6. Long term strategic business planning
Divergence In planning process
People planning
Line management
7. • In 1983 big tech company faced issue of lack of technical advancement in
their employee.
• Subsequently, the production was also decreasing.
• Make or buy situation
• Due to already existing salesperson, company can’t afford more employee.
• Decide to train the existing employee
8. • Therefore planning for people not only requires decision and discussion but
it also require training and development programme for the overall growth
of the company as well as the people that are working there.
9. • The most important development in human resource planning is not the creation of many
elements but rather their integration into a decision-making process that combines three
important activities:
1) identifying and acquiring the right number of people with the proper skills
2) motivating them to achieve high performance.
3) creating interactive links between business objectives and people-planning activities
