PLANNING FOR AND RECRUITING HUMAN RESOURCES

Concept and brief description:

In order to plan recruitment, HRM should create a strategy. This strategy can be conceived by following three important steps.
First, HRM must determine and evaluate the demand and needs for human resources in the company. HRM has to know which areas are going to require and need work force, or which departments are going to be overstaffed. To anticipate the demand and in the mean time the needs of workers, HRM can use several tools or data such as trend analysis, leading indicators, or transitional matrix.
Second, the chairman office along with HRM should set goals and strategies. They all need to set numerical objectives in order to focus on the same target. They also should identify possible problems and obstacles in order to find a solution to avoid those withdraws or to solve them as efficiently as possible. HRM should also adopt a human resource strategy in order to tackle the needs of human resources and according to the demand of the market.
Third, HRM needs to organize affirmative actions. It is a must for HRM to know and to plan how to deal with diversity in the work force.
Those three steps must be followed in order to be ready to tackle the surprises of the market and to stay competitive.

Emotional hook:

In the hypothesis of a boom in the market, a company which does not have necessary human resources or which did not anticipate this upward in the market will not be able to make as much benefits and to get as many market shares as it could have if it had been prepared and ready to catch up to the demand of the market and customers.

Key to elicit discussions:

It can be hard and complicated for HRM to try to anticipate a demand or need of work force based on theories and averages given by other organisms. HRM can try to plan as well as possible, the anticipations and predictions will rarely be accurate.

Facilitative questions:

How can a company make sure that it will have enough human resources or work force in the case of a sudden boom of the economy of market?