Steps for Human Resource Planning

1Summary

Arab British Fellowship Training Academy offers a course on the steps of human resource planning. HR planning involves a number of stages that can vary from one company to another, though certain best practices consistently deliver the greatest impact. At its core, the planning process is about determining what needs to be accomplished within a given period, alongside the types of human resources required to achieve business goals.

This is usually done by identifying the competencies employees need to achieve business objectives, assigning people with the right competencies to the right tasks, and evaluating the overall process to ensure continuous progress and development.

2Objectives and target group

Objectives of the Human Resource Planning Course

Securing and attracting trained competencies for the future, whether from educational institutions or the labor market.
Analyzing and monitoring the relationship between the cost of utilizing the workforce and the benefits it generates.
Meeting the organization's needs for staff and management with the right number, the right type, and at the right place and time.
Helping management achieve its objectives of greater productivity and lower cost by working to reduce the cost of learning and ensuring a balance between the supply of and demand for the human resources the organization needs.
Helping to select the most effective candidates for recruitment.
Preparing the HR budget, whether for recruitment, training or services.
Achieving integration between the organization's strategic plans and its HR management strategy and other various activities.
Good preparation for recruitment, selection and training activities.
Achieving the principle of the right person in the right place through careful HR planning.
Reducing the costs of other HR management activities, including recruitment, training, monitoring and maintaining the workforce.

Target Audience for the Human Resource Planning Course

Those responsible for preparing training and qualification programs for human resources.
Those responsible for preparing budgets for employee training programs.
All graduates and researchers interested in contemporary approaches to human resources management.

3Course Content

Basic Principles of Human Resources Management:

The pillars HR managers rely on to achieve excellence and innovation at work.
The concept, importance and objectives.
The HR management system.
The various approaches to the development of HR management.
The scientific principles and foundations of HR management.

Manpower Planning:

The concept and its importance.
The stages of manpower planning.
Who plans for human resources.
Methods for attracting a creative and innovative workforce.
Skills inventories and methods for forecasting human resources.
The difficulties of HR planning and how to address them.

Selection, Recruitment and Personal Interview Skills:

The selection and recruitment system.
The scientific steps of the selection and recruitment process.
Conducting psychological, practical and written tests.
Personal interview skills.
Values testing as a basis for placing the right person in the right position.
The traits of creative and outstanding individuals.

Performance Appraisal of Human Resources:

Job performance standards.
Their importance and uses.
Establishing job performance measures.
Methods of job performance appraisal.
Evaluator biases and how to overcome them.
Who conducts the appraisal process.
Practical cases and exercises.

Planning Human Resource Needs Amid the Challenges of the Times:

The importance of HR planning.
The factors affecting the HR planning process.
The basic model of HR planning.
The steps of HR planning.
Methods of forecasting human resources.
Analyzing the supply and demand sides of human resources.

Job Analysis and Job Description as a Gateway to Raising Performance Levels

Job analysis and its importance in modern organizations.
Work analysis and managerial performance.
Methods of job analysis in different organizations.
Work analysis techniques.
Job description and building ideal performance levels.

Planning and Developing HR Career Paths:

The importance of career-path planning in organizations.
The main variables affecting career-path planning.
Responsibility for career-path planning.
The methods used to identify career paths.
Career maps or the employee ladder.
Career-path management.