MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Severance Package, Root Mean Square, Employee Retention
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The process of forecasting future human resources requirements to ensure that the organization will have the required number of employees with the necessary skills to meet it"s strategic objective. Examples; adaptation they went from building temples to cof ns so they used their competencies. Anticipate and avoid shortages and surpluses of human resources. Steps in the hrp process: forecasting the availability of candidates (hr supply, forecasting future hr needs (hr demand, programs to balance supply and demand. Internal; candidates that already work for the organization, use them to move to different / higher position. External; people in the local labour market who don"t have a relationship with the company. Saves recruitment and selection costs for that employee. Motivation for other employees, rewards employee loyalty. May be costly in terms of increased compensation. Creates a vacancy elsewhere in the organization. Internal may not have the ksa"s to ll the role. May be dif cult to nd employees willing to relocate.