1. What is human resource planning? How does it relate to other human resource
management activities? Human resource planning is setting plans and the process of plans. It relates to
other human resource management activities because of how articulate and
thought out it is. Since planning is involve in human resource planning it goes
hand in hand with HR that helps you see demand and supply.
2. How can an HRIS help organizations respond to today’s pressures to reduce costs and
be more efficient?
be more efficient?
3. Describe the pros and cons associated with outsourcing most of your organization’s
HR functions to an independent vendor for a contract period of 10 years.
HR functions to an independent vendor for a contract period of 10 years.
4. What factors would affect your choice of an HR planning system? What factors
would influence your choice of forecasting methods?
would influence your choice of forecasting methods?
5. Assume that your organization wants to retain senior employees who might otherwise
want to retire. What incentives and other retention techniques should you use to keep
these valued employees? Explain.
want to retire. What incentives and other retention techniques should you use to keep
these valued employees? Explain.
6. Why are skills inventories important to an organization? Explain.
7. Assume that someone hacked into the HR records of your company. It appears that
employee names, social security numbers, and home addresses were downloaded by
the hacker. If you were the Director of HR for this company, what would you do in
this situation? For the employees today? To prevent this kind of identity theft from
happening again in the future?
employee names, social security numbers, and home addresses were downloaded by
the hacker. If you were the Director of HR for this company, what would you do in
this situation? For the employees today? To prevent this kind of identity theft from
happening again in the future?
8. What kinds of action decisions are available to an organization when there is a
surplus of labor? A labor shortage?
surplus of labor? A labor shortage?
9. What is succession planning? How have HRISs helped companies to integrate career
planning with effective succession planning?
planning with effective succession planning?
10. In your opinion, will HR planning become more or less important as we near the time
in which the baby boom generation will begin to retire? Explain.
in which the baby boom generation will begin to retire? Explain.
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