Chapter 5Learning Objectives

1. Discuss how to plan for human resources needed to carry out the organization’s strategy.

2. Determine the labor demand for workers in various job categories.

3. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of ways to eliminate a labor surplus and avoid a labor shortage.

Chapter 5Learning Objectives (continued)

4. Describe recruitment policies organizations use to make job vacancies more attractive.

5. List and compare sources of job applicants.

6. Describe the recruiter’s role in the recruitment process, including limits and opportunities.

Overview of the Human Resource Planning Process

• Reducing Surpluses • Reducing Shortages

Labor Surplus/Shortage

Goal Setting and HR Strategies for Addressing a Labor Shortage or Surplus

Options for Reducing a Surplus

Options for Avoiding a Shortage

Implementing and Evaluating the HR Plan

• Accountability

• Authority

• Regular progress reviews/reports

• Evaluation of results - actual numbers, success or failure?

Recruiting Human Resources

• The role of human resource recruitment is to build a supply of potential new hires that the organization can draw on if the need arises.

Three Aspects of Recruiting

Personnel PoliciesSeveral personnel policies are especially relevant to recruitment:

• INTERNAL • EXTERNAL

Sources of Recruiting