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We can summarize purpose of workforce planning to the following points:
1- Provides a good foundation for optimal use the workforce, so as to ensure elimination or reduction of the phenomena of disguised unemployment and deficits in some categories of workers, and thus it leads to reduce unnecessary burdens on individuals non-wage producers because the case is clear surplus.
2- Provide an opportunity for the institution to make sure of utilization of human resources available to them, especially those who work are not compatible with their abilities.
3-to maintain the workforce and reduce labor turnover, which leads to ensure the institution retain good tires technical and do not allow for this type of leak workforce to compete with institutions.
4- provide an opportunity for the institution to review its organizational structure and alignment of the structure where the jobs.
5- Organization makes a high degree of flexibility for the purpose of enjoying accommodate new technological developments, regulatory, and cope with emergency changes in the structure of the workforce.
6- Contributes to an effective contribution in the development of the appropriate individual in the right place so as to ensure improved performance levels, and increase the human element care within the institution.
its a HR process, its purpose is to presenting business strategy to ensure right no. of skills available for business operations, also it is a policy, a document, a set of procedures, a forecast n a continuous process, its purpose is to keep HR pro-active to manage n provide skills to avoid n issue/problem/surprise, identifying n evaluating sources for arranging desire skills and talents, maintaining balance of demand n supply of skills n talent at min. cost.
The Workforce planning is a document which specifies the overall company needs in workforce,
this should be in terms of size,type and quality .
It determines what mix of experience, knowledge, and skills is required and sequences steps to get the right number of right employee in the right place at the right time.
Workforce Planning is a continual process used to align the needs and priorities of the organization with those of its workforce to ensure it can meet its legislative, regulatory, service and production requirements and organizational objectives. Workforce Planning enables evidence based workforce development strategies.
The purpose of workforce planning are:
Achieve a balance between labor supply and demand so as to secure the needs: current and future, of the appropriate labor, the numbers required and the levels at specified intervals; to be used, in economic terms, at best.
