P1 Describe the internal and external factors to consider when planning the human resource

Human Resource
Planning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1- Describe the internal and external factors to consider when planning the human resources
requirements of an organization..................................................................................................3
P2- Describe how the skills that employees require to carry out jobs in an organisation are
identified.....................................................................................................................................5
P3- Outline how an organisation motivates its employees.........................................................6
P4- Explain how organizations obtain the cooperation of their employees..............................10
P5- Explain how employee performance is measured and managed........................................11
M2- Compare the use of motivational theories in an organisation...........................................12
M3- Explain how the results from measuring and managing performance .............................12
D1- Suggest, with justification, ways of enhancing motivation in an organisational setting...12
D2- Assess the essential of evaluating and managing employee performance at work............13
CONCLUSIONS.......................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTION
It is of utmost importance for a firm to have abundant and right people, at right job
profile, at right time for smoothly carrying out its business operations. Human resources
planning can be described as a procedure of identifying manpower requirements of a firm. It
involves intensive study for analysing requirements in terms of quantity i.e. number of people
and its quality i.e. skill and capabilities required for carrying out a particular job. ASDA is a
British retail supermarket brand that was established in 1965, with its headquarters in Leeds,
West Yorkshire (Alagaraja, 2013). This assignment will deal with providing internal and external
required by a firm for its s human resources planning along with identifying its employees skills
requirements. Moreover it will provide a synopsis of theories of motivation that is adopted by
manger to motivate and obtain cooperation of its team.
P1- Describe the internal and external factors to consider when planning the human resources
requirements of an organization
For every organization, its employees forms a cornerstone for attain success as they
serves as a source of creative ideas, skills and knowledge utilizing which a company achieves its
objectives. Thus , efficient and dynamic human resources planning is considered to be center of
focus for any firm as it strives to retain its existing proficient employees, recruit potential ones,
minimize their grievances and enhance their productivity.
ASDA is the second largest grocery retail stores that deals in wide variety of product line and
also provides financial and mobile phone provider services besides its core supermarket
products. It has a team of around 1,60,000 proficient employees that manages its operations in
around 365 stores across the globe (Bamberger, Meshoulam and Biron, 2014). Thus to have a
dedicated, efficient and adequate number of workforce ASDA scan various internal and external
factors in reference to plan out for its human resource. Mentioned below are certain internal and
external factors :
Internal Factors
These are those factors that are presented within ASDA and thus directly influences its human
resource planning process. It comprises following factors:
Organizational needs: An analysis of organizational needs assists firms to make a
comparison of existing strength in ASDA with its future competencies requirements that are
necessary to meet its objectives. For instance, in case ASDA wants to start a new product line

then company will need to plan out the future manpower requirement which involves hiring new
employees for carrying out various functions and to achieve the new and previously set targets
with full proficiency, profitability and within specific time line (Bloom and Van Reenen, 2014).
Skill Requirements: Merely having right number of people does not aid company to
achieve its objectives as employees are required to posses certain skills and knowledge to
undertake their assigned job responsibilities. Thus, skill requirement assessment helps ASDA to
know level of knowledge,capabilities and skills posses by its existing employees and what are
the expected level of competencies that is essential for them to achieve for successfully carrying
out their future job. This comparison between current and future skill requirements helps ASDA
to identifies the key areas of lacking of its employees and in taking decisions regarding
removal of these gaps by either designing a proper training program or by recruiting new
employees with specific skills (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017).
Workforce Profile : It involves a detailed information regarding the profile of all
employees that are working in an organization. ASDA keeps records of its employees profile
which includes information related to their age, gender, abilities, ethnicity etc that is analyzed by
firm while taking various decisions related to retirement, new hiring etc.
External factors
These are the factors that are presented outside ASDA but have a major impact on its human
resource planning.
Supply of labor : For smoothly carrying out the manufacturing and production process, it
is essential for a firm to have a regular supply of cheap labor in the areas company is conducting
its operations. Thus; before taking decision related to opening its new venture; ASDA undertakes
a detailed study about its present labor supply, type of labor available in specific location, recent
average working hour trends, government policies and legislation related to Labor laws and
current labor and wage rates prevailing at local, national and international scale (Brewster,
Chung and Sparrow, 2011). This helps firm to take necessary steps for recruiting new labor force
in case company has shortage or to lay off excessive worker supply which is adding on to
ASDA 's expenses.
Labor market competition: It relates prevailing demand and supply rate of Labor force.
In case, labor market competition is low availability of workers will be abundance. On the other
hand, in case of competitive labour market condition it might be hard for company to have