Human Resource Planning (HRP)

Planning enables managers to better cope with an uncertain environment and allocate scarce resources more efficiently. The importance of human resource planning has been emphasized by some management scholars as follows

“There continues to be in organizations a ‘failure, particularly on the part of line managers and functional managers in areas other than personnel, to recognize the true importance of planning for and managing human resources."

Human resource planning is sometimes referred to as manpower planning when applied to all employees. or management successions planning when strictly applied to managerial employees. It helps  management find the right people for the right jobs at the right time.  Human resource planning may be rightly defined as the development of a comprehensive staffing strategy for meeting the organization’s future human resource needs.