PLANNING - HR

Planning is the first and basic function of the management and everything depends upon planning as it
is a process of thinking about things before they happen and to make preparations in-advance to deal
with them. Poor planning results in failure and effects overall system. Therefore HR Mangers should be
aware of when is right time to do things, when things should be done and when things should not be
done in order to achieve goals and objectives of the organization.

Establishing goals and objectives to be achieved through the employees so as to achieve the
organizational mission set by the top-level management.

Developing rules and procedures which has to be followed by the employees in order to avoid any sort
of discrimination among the employees in any of their functions, to enable fair and transparent
treatment among employees, to avoid conflict starting from recruitment to the separation of
employees, inculcate discipline among the employees, to drive performance of employees and
ultimately to avoid conflict and contravenes with statutes and employment laws of the land, ultimately
for smooth running of the organization.

Determining plans and forecasting techniques as a part of Human resource planning to avoid any
shortfall of workforce so as to avoid impact on the output of the organisation, to draw the estimation of
workforce exactly needed for the organisation and to plan for attracting talented candidates.

HR outsourcing: as that of make or buy decision in operations management, human resource manager
should be able to make decisions with regard to HR activities which are to be executed by the
management itself or to be outsourced when there is advantage of expertise to bring in and cost-saving
for organization. The following are the most outsourced HR activities; legal advice and support,
employee payroll, pensions, training and development, recruitment, employee assistance,
compensation and benefits, outplacement is, human resource information systems, employee relations,
policy-making, strategic partnerships, appraisal of employees and resource planning.

Most small to medium-sized business owners know the frustration of spending more time than they
want on non-revenue generating activities from payroll to human resource management to benefits and
compensation.The answer for many businesses maybe to outsource part of their HR functions to third
party providers so that they can focus on their core business and also has following benefits-

Save money and reduce operating costs

Allow the company to focus on its core business

Reduce the number of HR staff and related staff expenses

Allow HR staff to focus more on strategy

Avoid the costs of major investment in technology

Improve metrics/measurement