Major Project 2
20% of Final Grade HR STAFFING PLAN PROJECT GUIDELINES
PURPOSE The purpose of this project is to provide experience in preparing a human resource
(HR) staffing plan for a company. This project incorporates many of the topics
explored during this class. You will have to make assumptions if the information is
not available on the company’s public site, in their Annual Report, or available
through other business sources. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES:
1) Whole Foods 6) AT&T 2) Tesoro 7) Game Stop 3) Valero 8) JC Penney 4) Southwest Airlines 9) Exxon Mobil 5) Sussor Corporation 10) Texas Instruments STEPS: 1. Select a company or organization to use as the focus of this plan and submit the name to the instructor. 2. Assume the company is undergoing an expansion and will need to hire an additional 800 workers at various levels [you decide which ones] of the
organization within an 18-month timeframe.
3. Identify the critical skills and job roles needed to staff the company. Develop a baseline staffing level made up of staff members whose absence would
significantly impact the basic functioning of the business.
4. Identify current staffing gaps within the organization. You can make assumptions to do this. If you make assumptions, you will have to answer the questions below.
However, you can contact the HR department at the organizations, identify
yourself as a Concordia HR student, and ask if they will answer the basic
questions for you:
o Have they identified any current staffing gaps within the organization? o Do they believe there are critical staffing needs that are not being currently
met?
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o Are there any skills sets needed which are not possessed by current
employees of the company? o If so, what are they doing to locate and hire these people? 5. Forecast the future needs of the organization by categories as a result of the expansion pans identifying any staffing gaps that will arise..
6. Assess if current and future gaps can be filled with internal actions such as cross training or transfers or whether external recruitment efforts will be needed.
7. Identify if the organization will rely on internal recruitment or contract employees for part or all of the new staffing needs.
8. Review the published goals, mission statement and strategic plan for the business, to identify the areas in which the company is expected to grow in the
future. Consider any planned expansion to product lines, new customers and
market segments or the acquisition of competitors, for example. Identify the
additional staffing or skill sets needed to achieve this level of growth and identify if
the additional positions will increase the permanent base staffing level or should
be temporary to address a defined short-term need.
9. Account for absences, including both those which can be controlled — terminations, for example — and those which cannot be controlled, such as
medical leaves. Identify the number of retirement-eligible staff and determine if
actions can to be taken to train other staff to replace those duties when
retirements occur or if the business will need to hire from the outside. Prepare an
estimated timeframe when these retirements will take place. For example, if 75
people are retirement eligible, will 35 retire in 2015, 15 in 2016 and 25 in 2017?
10. Develop recruitment plans to address any issues that cannot be dealt with through internal training and succession planning. Consider when you will need to recruit
to have essential staff on board. For example, if you are recruiting staff with hardto-find skills, you may want to have an open recruitment and hire staff members
whenever you can find someone suitable — even if no gap exists — to be sure you
have appropriately skilled individuals when you need them. Document the plans in
writing, but adjust them as changes to the business plan arise.
11. Turn in a professionally written HR staffing plan for your organization. It should be at least five pages in length plus the title page. Include an executive summary and
a reference page. The plan should include information on the company’s mission,
values and current plans. Use APA. This is a team grade.
12. Each student will prepare and post a 5-7 slide PowerPoint presentation of the staffing plan. Put descriptive information in the notes section. This is an
individual grade.
13. The grade will be an average of the paper and the PowerPoint presentation. Page 2 of 3 Major Project 2
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14. The paper and the PowerPoints are due in Week 7. IMPORTANT REMINDERS
• Review the company’s Annual Report to obtain information on their goals, mission
statement and strategic plans. They are available on their website or by looking on a
stock tracking website like MSN money or Market Watch, Wall Street Journal, etc.. • If you are unsure how to obtain some information, you MUST contact the instructor
for help while there is sufficient time for you to finish the project. • Refer to the rubric to ensure you have covered all required parts. RESOURCES
• http://www.uvm.edu/extension/community/buildingcapacity/pdf/drafting_staffing_pla
n.pdf • http://www.beta.mmb.state.mn.us/doc/wfp/stratstf.pdf • http://www.careerxroads.com/news/eskenazi.asp • http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/lookup.asp Page 3 of 3
