Hrm Case

Section One

Who is involved in writing a human resource plan?

For writing a human resource plan, every employees in the company would involved. Like managers, team leaders, technical staff, knowledge workers, skilled workers and office workers. In a company, different department would have different needs in human resources. Manager would have to consult all of the department before writing a human resource plan. Workers would have great understand of the needs in their own position, team leaders would collect the opinion of employees in their department then report to the managers. Managers would make the final decision of the human resource plan after consulting every department leader. In order to have a more suitable human resource plan for the company.

Armstrong, M. (1994) Human Resources Management Strategy & Action. 2nd ed. London: Kogan Page Limited, p.59-60.

What external and internal factors should be considered?

In external factors, social environment, economic environment, political environment and technological environment should be considered. Social environment would be the population growth, age distribution, work force and education. Economic environment would be the economic growth, interest rate, inflation rate and business cycle. Political environment would be tax policy, employment law and political stability. Technological environment would be new invention, technology development and government technology investment. Each environment would be an external factor that affect the company. Other than that, opportunities and threats should also be considered. Opportunities would help the company have a better performance and threats would avoid the company having a good performance.

For internal factors, strength, weakness, size of the company, organisation structure, human resources policy and the culture should be consider. Those internal factors would also affect the company, managers should consider before making a human resource plan.

Jobber, D. (2010) Principles and Practice of Marketing. 6th ed. Berkshire: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, p.46-47.

Jobber, D. (2010) Principles and Practice of Marketing. 6th ed. Berkshire: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, p.71-90.

Nel, P. and Werner, A., et al. (2004) Human Resources Management. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, Cape Town, p.7-8.

Draw a simple flowchart of the Human Resource Planning process you would expect for a large hotel here in town

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