Resourcing Strategies

Chapter 13 of Human Resource Management in a Business Context (3rd Edition) 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

Topics

Resourcing

Environmental constraints on resourcing

Resourcing and the flexible organization

Resourcing strategies

Types of resourcing strategy

Human resource planning

People as numbers

Forecasting methods

Employee turnover

'Soft' planning

Resourcing information

Researching the job

The job description

Researching people

Selectors and strategies

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

Resourcing Books

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