TRIPURA UNIVERSTY

(A CENTRAL UNIVERSITY)
Assignment Topic-:Manpower planning and its significance in Indian Industries
2nd Assignment

Submitted To-:Tamal Chaudhury

(Assistant Professor, Tripura University)

Submitted By-Souvik Purkayastha

Roll No-1906460012
Department-Dept. of Business Management
Academic Year-2019-2020

Date-16/06/2020
1)Manpower Planning and its significance in Indian
Industries?
Answer-:
Manpower Planning-Manpower Planning is the development of strategies to match the
supply of manpower to the availability of jobs at organizational, regional or national level.
Manpower planning involves reviewing current manpower resources, forecasting future
requirements and availability, and taking steps to ensure that the supply of people and skills
meets demand.

Manpower Planning is estimating or projecting the number of personnel with different skills
required over time or for a project, and detailing how and when they will be acquired.
Manpower planning in terms of human resource development is the skills, knowledge and
capacities of all human beings actually or potentially available for economic and social
development in the country.
Manpower planning refers to optimal use of human resources. It is a procedure used in
organizations to balance future requirements for all levels of employee with the availability
of such employees.

Manpower planning significance in Indian Industry discuss in bellow-:

i.Updating the knowledge – The first and foremost need for manpower training is to
renew and update knowledge and skills of employees to sustain their effective performance
and so also to develop them for future managerial positions.

ii. Improving performance – Continuous training is required to renew and

update the knowledge of the employees which makes them functionally more useful.
The performance of the employees is depends on the type of training given to them.
One way training the employee’s skills is directly proportional to the performance of
those employees.

iii. Developing human skills – Apart from emphasizing on technical and

conceptual skills, new training programs also put emphasis on developing human
skills of employees. Such human skills are necessary for effective interpersonal
relations and sustaining healthy work environment.
iv. Imparting trade specific skills – In industrial employment, the convention
is to recruit workers and employees through compulsory apprenticeship training.
Such apprenticeship training enables an organization to impart industry and trade
specific skills to workers.
v. Stabilizing the workforce – Throughout the world, the importance of
training is now increasingly felt for stabilizing the workforce to withstand the
technological change and making the organization dynamic in this changing process.

vi) Efficient utilization-Efficient management of personnels becomes an important

function in the industrialization world of today. Setting of large-scale enterprises require
management of large-scale manpower. It can be effectively done through staffing function.

vii) Motivation-Staffing function not only includes putting right men on right job, but it
also comprises of motivational programmes, i.e., incentive plans to be framed for further
participation and employment of employees in a concern. Therefore, all types of incentive
plans becomes an integral part of staffing function.

viii)Better Human relation-A concern can stabilize itself if human relations develop
and are strong. Human relations become strong trough effective control, clear
communication, effective supervision and leadership in a concern. Staffing function also
looks after training and development of the work force which leads to co-operation and
better human relations.

ix)Higher Productivity-Productivity level increases when resources are utilized in

best possible manner, higher productivity is a result of minimum wastage of time, money,
efforts and energies. This is possible through staffing and its related activities (Performance
appraisal, training and development, remuneration).