Professional Documents
Culture Documents
This step looks at jobs currently being done and the people doing
those jobs. It is based on
• Human resource inventory: it describes the competencies of
currently available staff in the organization. Human resource
inventory is also called a skill inventory which consists of up to date
information about the organizational employees, and their
qualifications and experiences. The input to this report would be
derived from the forms completed by employees and then checked
by supervisors of the personnel department . HRI consists of the
following information.
Name, education, training and development, experience, current
position, performance, compensation, language, specialists skills etc
of the employees. This analyses the current manpower position of
the organization. From the view point of HR planning, this input is
valuable in determining what skills are currently available and what
measures should be adopted to enhance the skill and ability of
employees.
Human resource information system: it serves as the database for
human resource information. Human resource information system
assists in processing of human resource management information.
Normally following things are recorded
• Personal data: name, address, date of birth, marital status,
children, next of kin, etc.
• Skills data: educational qualifications, training received, languages
spoken, capabilities, special skills, etc.
• Position data: current position, duties and responsibility,
occupational history, various jobs held in other organizations, work
location, etc.
• Compensation data: current salary, salary history, bonus, overtime
payments, deductions form salary, tax information, award
received etc.
• Job analysis: it provides information about
jobs currently being done. The tasks of a job
and qualifications needed for doing the job
are identified.
Forecasting Human Resource Demand
• Training is the act of making the person capable to do the work. It helps
to gain the practical knowledge which is required to perform the
organizational works. If the employees are trained properly then there is
a higher chance of higher production. The human resource manager
organizes different training programs in the organization. Training can be
provided from two ways to the employees in organization. They are on
the job training and off the job training. If the training is provided in a
class by giving a theoretical and practical education then that is called off
the job training. Similarly, if the training is given along with the job in the
work place with production process then that is called on the job
training. After studying the performance of entire available staff, the
need of training can be realized by the human resource manager of the
organization. There is no doubt that training program makes the
employees capable, competent and more active in his or her job. The
human resource manager should evaluate the training program after its
completion. There are various methods to evaluate the training
Training your employees is important because
identified, it is
necessary to find who are involved in such deficiencies.
So, the next and final step is to identify employee
performance deficiencies by comparing actual
performance with the standard performance. In this
process, information obtained from the regular
performance monitoring by the immediate supervisor and
the results of performance evaluations are useful for
employees to gain necessary job knowledge, skills, and
attitudes to perform the job duties.
Methods of determining training needs