HR Planning & Information Systems (Functional Electives HR)

Paper Code: 
MBH- 621
Credits: 
4.0
Contact Hours: 
40.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To discuss the concept and importance of human resources planning in organisations
  • To describe the critical linkages that exist between strategic planning and human resources planning
  • To identify the factors that shape an organisation’s demand for human resources
  • To describe the methods used to forecast the demand for human resources
  • To explain the role of skill inventories in developing succession plans
  • To recommend solutions to staffing shortages or surpluses
  • To identify reasons why a computerized human resource planning system could be useful to an organization.
8.00
Unit I: 
Concept and Benefits of HR Planning

Macro level HR Planning and Labour Market Analysis, Micro level (Organisational) HR Planning, HRP components, benefits and process

8.00
Unit II: 
Job Analysis

Meaning and definition, job analysis process, techniques of Job Evaluation, Job Design and Role Analysis and Job Enlargement and Enrichment, competency based approach

8.00
Unit III: 
Workforce analysis and forecasting

Forecasting manpower needs, process, projecting future talent supply, Workload Analysis, Work force flow mapping, Models and techniques of human resource demand and supply forecasting, Wastage Analysis, scenario forecasting, regression analysis

8.00
Unit IV: 
Human Resource Information System

HRIS A Framework: Concept, Management, Information, System, HRIS definitions, Nature & Scope, Characteristics, Functions, Importance & Failures, and MIS & Use of Computers. HRIS: A support to the management, Management effectiveness, Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Controlling, and MIS: A tool for management process

8.00
Unit V: 
Recent Concept

Human Resource Audit, Behavioural factors in human resource planning and Skills Inventory, challenges of succession management, replacement analysis, career planning and its process, Human Resource Accounting

Essential Readings: 
  • Human Resource Information System: Development and Applications, Kavanagh, M. J. etc., PWS-Kent, Boston, 2008
  • Human Resource Planning, Bramham J., Institute of Personnel Management, London, 2002
References: 
  1. The Manpower Planning Handbook, Bennison, M and Casson, J., McGraw Hill, London.
  2. Human Resource Valuation: A Guide to Strategies and Techniques, Belkaoui, A.R. and Belkaoui, J.M., Quorum Books, Greenwood.