HR Planning in a Changing Environment Article 2022

Running head: HR PLANNING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
HR planning in a changing environment
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HR PLANNING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Article 1:
Normi, S. (2017). Strategic Human Resource Planning: Responding to Changes Dynamic
Business Environment and Effective to Achieve Competitive Advantage. Journal of Social
Science Studies, 4(2), 117-131.
Objective and research question:
The article discuses about the planning of the human resource as a strategy to respond to
the competitive and dynamic business environment that enable the organization to gain
sustainable competitive advantage. In addition to this, the linkage between the strategic business
planning and human resources have also been identified in the article.
Method:
Analysis of the information gathered has been done by the adoption of various
mathematical and statistical approaches such as the quality and number of the human resources
for estimating the organizational inputs such as sales volume and production.
Finding and discussion:
The short term, medium and long term planning of human resources are implemented in
accordance to the needs and conditions of the organization along with the changing environment
of the business. However, higher level of risk is associated with the long term planning of human
resources and in line with the changing role of the human resource as competitive advantage,
long term HR planning plays a very crucial role. The linkage between the human resource
planning and the changing environment would result in influencing of the human considerations
such as availability and cost of human resources.

HR PLANNING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Conclusion:
From the analysis of the article, it is ascertained that the planning of human resource in
the changing environment is faced with the needs of balancing the present and future
requirements of the human resources. The challenges faced in the dynamic business environment
would cause the human resource to be located in proper and appropriate place.
Contribution of the article to essay:
The article would help in understanding the effectiveness of business and HR planning in
gaining competitive advantage and the proficiency of human resource should become more
pronounced in the long term as the organizations become involve in such activities. The
performance of the organization can be accumulated by improving the human resource
performance and incorporating in into the business strategy.

HR PLANNING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Article 2:
Guest, D. E. (2017). Human resource management and employee well‐being: Towards a new
analytic framework. Human Resource Management Journal, 27(1), 22-38.
Objective and research question:
The article presents an alternative approach to the human resource management that helps
in the prioritization of the practice that aims at improving a positive employee relationship and
enhancing wellbeing and proposing both the elements as essential. The choice of the practices in
the organization has been supporting presenting the evidences. It has been argued in the article
that such practices intends to improve the potentiality of organizational and individual
performances.
Method:
The benefits of the HRM to the organization and individual has ben explained using the
mutual gains model. The focus of the research work is on the improvement in the performance
and with placing secondary importance on the employees concern and this has been done by
adopting the dominant model within the theory of HRM. Five provisional set of HR practices is
presented in the model and the dual track of promoting the positive employee and wellbeing is
argued.
Finding and discussion:
The impact of the practices concerning HR has been presented in the article that has
outlined different or distinctive set of HR practices. Evidences supports the linkage of the
positive employment relationship and higher level of well-beings with the different HR practices.