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The three key elements of the human resources planning model are:
The four criteria highlight the importance of people to met competitive advantages are:
1. Employees shall be valuable: efficiency and effectiveness,
2. Employees shall be rare: knowledge, skills and ability
3. Employees is difficult to imitate: capabilities,
4. Employees shall be well organized: agility, teamworking.
Ideally, forecasting should include the use of both
quantitative and qualitative approaches. Numbers
without context—including the context supplied by
skilled HR professionals who understand the
business and can analyze and interpret the data—
are less useful. “The most important software is
the one running between your ears,” explains one
HR director about the qualitative nature of
strategic human resources planning.
BASIS FOR
BUSINESS STRATEGY CORPORATE STRATEGY
COMPARISON
Meaning Business Strategy is the strategy Corporate Strategy is stated in the mission
framed by the business managers to statement, which explains the business type and
strengthen the overall performance of ultimate goal of the firm.
the enterprise.
Created by Middle level management Top level management
Nature Executive and Governing Decisive and Legislative
Relates to Selection of plan to fulfill the objectives Business selection in which the company should
of organization. compete.
Deals with Particular business unit or division Entire business organization
Term Short term strategy Long term strategy
Focus Competing successfully in the Maximizing profitability and business growth.
marketplace.
Approach Introverted Extroverted
Major strategies Cost Leadership, Focus and Expansion, Stability and Retrenchment.
Differentiation
Through HR planning, firms strive to take proper balance between demand and supply consideration into the basic steps:
1-Corporate strategy in the mission statement will define the strategy such as the expansion, profitability and the like.
2-Business strategy define the strategy to compete in market and product such as cost leadership or differentiation.
3-Forecasting demand based on trend of business activities
4-Determining supply forecasting of the candidate with required qualification to fill positions
5-Make a balance between demand and supply labor, if you have shortage of demand, go to step 4