Human resources

Table of Contents

1. Topic pack - introduction
2. 2.1 Human Resource Planning - Notes
   1. Human resource planning
   2. Supply of human resources
   3. Workforce Planning
   4. Recruitment and selection
   5. Appraisal
   6. Training and development
   7. Internal and external training
   8. Benefits of good training
   9. Dismissal and redundancy/lay-off
   10. Legal employment rights
   11. Legislation on employment rights
   12. Achieving workforce planning targets
   13. Changing employment patterns and practices
   14. Analysing changes
   15. Handy's Shamrock
3. 2.1 Human resource planning - questions
4. 2.2 Organisational structure - notes
5. 2.2 Organisational structure - questions
6. 2.3 Communication - notes
7. 2.3 Communication - questions
8. 2.4 Leadership and management - notes
9. 2.4 Leadership and management - questions
10. 2.5 Motivation - notes
11. 2.5 Motivation - questions
12. 2.5 Motivation - simulations and activities
13. 2.6 Organisational and corporate cultures - notes (HL only)
14. 2.6 Organisational and corporate cultures - questions
15. 2.7 Employer and employee relations - notes (HL only)
16. 2.7 Employer and employee relations - questions
17. 2.8 Crisis management and contingency planning - notes
18. 2.8 Crisis management and contingency planning - questions
19. Printable version

2.1 Human Resource Planning - Notes

Introduction

Labour is one of the four factors of production described in topic one on the nature of business. There are two key aspects to human resource planning:

• Having the right number of people in the right place at the right time (supply of labour)
• Ensuring that the quality of those people is suited to their roles and responsibilities

By the end of this section you should be able to:

• Identify the constraints and opportunities provided by demographic change
• Discuss the significance of changes in labour mobility
• Compare present human resources with future requirements and evaluate strategies for developing future human resources
• Describe methods of recruitment, appraisal, training and dismissal
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages of different methods of recruitment, appraisal and training

• Describe reasons for changes in the work patterns and practices and consequences for employers and employees
• Analyse the impact on the firm of legal employment rights
• Examine how recruitment, appraisal, training, dismissal and redundancies enable the firm to achieve workforce planning targets
• Analyse reasons for changes in the work patterns and practices and consequences for employers and employees