Chapter 13 of Human Resource Management in a Business Context (2nd Edition 2004) by Alan Price - published by Thomson Learning

Contents

Objectives
The purpose of this chapter is to:
- Provide an overview of employee resourcing atrategies
- Discuss the purposes and methods of human resource planning
- Outline the process of job analysis
- Debate resourcing strategy in the context of staff retention and redundancy
Resourcing

Environmental constraints on resourcing

Resourcing and the flexible organization

Resourcing strategies

Human resource planning

People as numbers

Forecasting

Employee turnover

'Soft' planning

Resourcing information

Researching the job

The job description

Researching people

Strategies for redundancy

Planning for redundancies

Redundancy and retention

International organizations and redundancies

Summary
Employee resourcing is a wider issue than recruitment and selection. In this chapter we discussed strategies for determining resourcing from either the internal or external employment markets. We considered a variety of models for resourcing strategies. We also discussed some approaches to human resource planning and the use made of information collected during the resourcing process. We reviewed the issue of retention, staff turnover and wastage in terms of measurement, forecasting and action. Some of the limitations of job descriptions and personnel specifications were identified. Finally, we considered redundancies as an aspect of resourcing strategy.
Further reading
Ahlrichs' (2000), Competing for Talent: Key Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Becoming an Employer of Choice, Davies-Black Publishing. Examines the topic of employee resourcing in a practitioner context. Miles and Snow's typology is debated in Sonnenfeld, Peiperl and Kotter (1988) (reprinted in Human Resource Strategies, ed. Salaman, 1992). The planning process is discussed in Hendry (1995), Human Resource Management: a strategic approach to employment and Tyson (1995), Human Resource Strategy. Rothwell ('Human resource planning' in Storey, ed, 1995, Human Resource Management: A Critical Text) takes a fairly technical overview of the subject and also provides a useful attempt at explaining why HRP is a 'textbook' topic rather than widespread practice. Iles' article on 'Employee Resourcing' in the second edition of the same book places human resource planning in its context. Dibble's Keeping Your Valuable Employees: Retention Strategies for Your Organization's Most Important Resource, published by John Wiley & Sons (1999) addresses retention and staff turnover in a comprehensive manner.
Review questions

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Human Resource Management
in a Business Context
2nd Edition 2004

by Alan Price
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ISBN 186152966X

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