Case Study 5



Case Study 5

Introduction

Having the right number of people in the team and keep them in the service of the organization is often a factor of productivity and success in crucial organizations. Human resources main task is to hire right people at the right place in the organization. At the same time, they also have the responsibility to hire right number of people in a team to carry out the operations smoothly (Wright, 2011). For hiring right number of people, Human resource planning is very important, so the importance of human resource planning is that it becomes especially critical when organizations plan to perform functions, locate plants, cut staff or close facilities operation.

Today, almost a third of the workforce consists of people working part-time, casual workers and self-employed so good planning within the organization is essential for good performance. Manpower planning is very necessary for any organization, however, not always be necessary to apply it from a reasonable point of view has much to do with the size of the organization (Merkle, 2005). The case we are going to discuss in this paper has hiring issues like ABC company had hire more employees in one division while more employees are required in other division. In this paper, we are going to discuss some effective ways to overcome over hiring in the second division and understaffing in the third division.

Solutions to over hiring

Over hiring have many vital signs in disrepair among which is the loss of time and resources is the disadvantage to the organization. Over hiring in the second division can be managed by reduction of poor performing employees. Reduction of over hiring is sometimes unpalatable, but will provide immediate savings. If, the management want to go with this choice than they should use caution so that any staff ...