How Are Human Resource Development Planning (HRD) and Strategic Planning Related?
Human Resource Planning, or Human Resource Development Planning is the process by which a company attempts to ensure that it has the necessary people, skills and talents needed to reach its goals. HR planning can have implications for hiring, retention, and the training and development of existing staff, while Human Resource Development Planning (HRD planning) usually focuses on skill development.
So, the issue is: How do you know what skills, people, talents and abilities are needed in the future? That's where there is a link between human resource planning and strategic planning. HR planning takes the information from the strategic planning process as input, and uses it to predict what will be needed in the future.
Of course, HR planning can be done independently of strategic planning, but it simply makes more sense to first to strategic planning, and then do human resources planning, because the mission, role and goals of the organization really will determine human resource needs.
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