Manpower Planning

Personnel management is productive exploitation of manpower resources. This is also termed as ‘Manpower Management’. Manpower Management is choosing the proper type of people as and when required. It also takes into account the upgrading in existing people. Manpower Management starts with manpower planning. Every manager in an organization is a personnel man, dealing with people.
Comments on article "Manpower Planning"
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michell thanx fo the notes they helped a lot 11/26/2009
suganyapanneer IT's very easy to understand fundamental problems of man power planning.Thank u so much... 10/21/2009
Bava Nice answer 10/11/2009
shivakala Thank u..The info is very useful. If you add case studies dat would be more inspiring and helpful. 10/11/2009
adeyemo akeem this is a nice job, but i want you to add to these i;e to compare and contrast the man power planning procedure in (1) civil services (2) parastatals (3) private sector. 9/4/2009
Snehal its used to HR dept 7/21/2009
Snehal when manpower required 7/21/2009
HARITMA BHUSHAN PLEASE ADD THE WAYS OF MAN POWER PLANNING 5/29/2009
pky its nice 5/13/2009
umesh It is very good guidelines for those who are working on man power planning issues. 5/13/2009
gcogco i don`t have any comment but I just want know what are the reasons for manpower planning 5/4/2009
stephen what are the differeces between manpowerplanning and humanresouces planning. 5/1/2009
Atonas The basic understanding need to be achieved is - manpower planning can addressed issues on putting the right people, at the right time and at the right place, but how many organisation has successfully inmplementing this thoughout their organisation. 4/10/2009
hajar i think that it is basic or primary need to establihsed business, manpower is whole part of organisation. manpower is must for any success business, this is also must for future uncertainity 3/17/2009
s. Ahmed Bello the must important concepts in management are ' planning organisation,staffing ,directing,coordinating. 1/26/2009
Emeka Samuel the page is quit interesting thanks for the articles and hope to receive more. 1/11/2009
afsana i think that it is basic or primary need to establihsed business, manpower is whole part of organisation. manpower is must for any success business, this is also must for future uncertainity. 12/24/2008
marian i think the staffing processes used in nigeria should be reviewed 12/9/2008
MM GREAT! ITS FANTASTIC... 11/3/2008
Lawrence Excellent Concept In Optimal Use of People In The Production Function / Process;
Cost-Benefit Analysis;
Input-Output Analysis.
10/15/2008
bharath nice presentation 9/21/2008
stella Nice article, but it would have been more detailed, bringing out all good ad bad sides of manpower planning and the effects of such delay in the organisation. Or are there some other articles or books on line whih can be more detailed for people who are doing this course as professional course. 8/13/2008
sanju It's more useful for HR people 7/3/2008
Alamer This article can be considered as key points for Manpower planning 5/8/2008
abu yousef forecast manpower is the first importan for any orgnaizaition 4/14/2008
Nanda Article is nice and gives lots of ideas 4/9/2008
musa aliyu R/d the article is very rich and simple to understand
3/20/2008
MASIMBA TOPODZI An informative website I am finding it easy to learn new concepts 3/6/2008
Sri hmmmmmmmmmm not bad but not so effective 2/25/2008
NOMAN FAHAD NICE WEB SITE I LIKE IT .
THANKS SO MUCH
2/24/2008
Kumar Ravi nice articles on mpp that is very simple to understand. 1/19/2008
FASHI THE NOTS ARE VERY VERY BAD
U HAVE NOT SHAME TO MAKE THESE TYPES OF NOTES U SILLY NONSENSE U R ..............
11/19/2007
edeifo gift i think the 21st cenury organizations need manpower planning more than anything else. 11/2/2007
anand i ts good 10/9/2007
bhaskar please give questions for above topic.. and the topic discription is good 10/5/2007
adesola I will like if u can produce a text book outside 4 student,s. 9/30/2007
Rishikant there is no definition of manpower planning. it seems to be a group of vague statements. no certain definition of manpower planning is given. 9/19/2007
Mr. Ekeke manpower planning affects the organisational makeup, thus, it is neccessary if productivity will be maximised. 7/11/2007
Njoki Manpower planning if done effectively can result in increased productivity in an organization.Therefor the top management should support the HR department in their efforts with regard to manpower planning. 6/8/2007
rupan fantastic one useful for us 5/31/2007
Kaveri Malhotra Rightly said in the above article manpower planning is to make the optimum utilization of manpower.In my views manpower planning is not only for predicting the future requirement of employees or skill set required in future but should also includes planning and developing the skills of the existing manpower as per the future , as an important aspect. 5/15/2007
Tari, S. Kwada Manpower planning not only does it place HMR on the idea of required number of staff in an organisation, but focus on the productivity and profitability of an organisation.

4/18/2007
manoj Though all details are much more relevent and usefull but there we can add some new approaches of man power planning. 4/6/2007
Susan This has helped me to understand fundamental issues in man power planning. 3/16/2007
jdsn human resources in an organization concept of management 2/9/2007
m satyanarayana please sent manpower planning material 1/30/2007
Manvi Article is good...but it should also include a proper format/form which can present Manpower Planning in more effective way. That is missing. 1/3/2007
shruti srivasta Article is very helpful and very well written.
11/21/2006
Renjith Krishna Manpower planning doesnot only means only the using of available resources. It is also finding out the sufficient number of personal for the efficient working of the department 9/23/2006
mitika some more information required for manpower planning like the functions, objectives etc as i m also an mba student 9/20/2006
fohaid require some case study 9/11/2006
zan these material are of immense importance. i have found these a valuable asset.
8/22/2006
tushar should be more eleborative 7/27/2006
Awolaja I need to know about the various techniques used in manpower plnanning 7/12/2006
sele i think is ok. 7/11/2006
sele singnificance of manpower planning in the business? 7/11/2006
S Patra good article, but it should also include the example of cases in practice and its analysis. 7/11/2006
vivian i think the definition of manpower planning give is very okey but my major problem in this manpower planning is how does manpower come about. 7/7/2006
Anindita good article 4/26/2006
Don Juan De Mar wow!!! i wa slooking for the right kind of stuff and here i got it in a very lucid form with proper understanding of the meaning of manpower and the factors which go onto the planning and execution of the HR polocies

thank You
4/6/2006
minakshi this is not enough knowledge about man power because i am mba student having human resource management so i need to know more about it. 3/16/2006
minakshi my personal view about man power planning is for any organisation that any organisation will success when there is proper man power planning
3/16/2006
Wura Aladetan good work,but i need to know more about manpower planning because am writing a project on it.please do help me to complete my project.thanks 2/28/2006
tunde oladeji This is just too good!Please more of this. 2/13/2006
aarushi agrawal not a complete one but helpful of course. need some addition to this. overall a good one 8/16/2005
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