The Challenges Of Human Resource Planning (2023)

The Challenges And Value Of Human Resource Planning

By Robert Bacal

Human resource planning is about ensuring that the organization has the employees it will need in the future, in the right jobs, with the right skills, and it's one of the most challenging types of planning we cover on this site. In fact, it may be the most complex kind of planning a company can undertake. Why?

Consider the following points:

• Human resource planning can only be as good as the ability of the company to predict what will happen OUTSIDE the company, economic trends, upturns, downturns, what competitors are doing, and a raft of other things the company has no control over. Often HR staff don't have the skills and background to predict these events with any success.
• The pace of change is so quick in the workplace that it's hard to predict what skills (and therefore, what employees, will be needed in even the near future.
• People make decisions about their own careers, whether to stay or go, and these days, there's much more movement of employees from company to company. No longer do employees expect to stay at the same company for decades, and often their "moves" occur without warning, and even with two weeks notice. When people are involved, prediction becomes much harder.
• Company growth (or for that matter, contraction) is difficult to predictin today's world. Successful companies can crash and burn quickly, or lose revenue, resulting in a need to layoff staff in an uncontrolled and unplanned way. The flip side is that as companies succeed and expand, not only do they need more employees, but theskills they require will change.
• Human resources planning needs to be linked to the overall strategic direction of the company, and HR needs to have a seat at the strategic table to both define that strategic direction, and to have information about corportate strategy. Unfortunately, HR is still seen as a nuts and bolts part of the organization rather than a strategic lever to make things happen. Not only is HR left "unheard", but the skills of HR staff are often not strategic in nature, but oriented towards the completion of short term tasks, like getting people hired, or more tactical functions.

What Needs To Change In HR

• Companies need to shift HR's focus from nuts and bolts administration, to seeing HR as a strategic function that can have profound benefts on into the future. Having the right people at the right time, and the ability to create workforce stability (few layoffs) may eventually be a critical success factor. That's not the case yet, but HR has never been considered strategic.
• HR staff need to have different skills and abilities to succeed in a dynamic and strategic HR world. No longer can we afford HR staff who are "administrators of programs", who have no ability to think strategically.
• HR needs a seat at the executive table. CEO's need to both listen to, and include HR in the decision-making process, and that includes the strategic planning process.

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