Human Resource Planning - Literature Review

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Human Resource Planning – Literature Review
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Human resource planning refers to the process by which future and current human
resource needs are identified for achieving the goals and objectives of a business organization.
The primary purpose of human resource planning is to serve as a link between overall strategic
plans and human resource management of an organization. This essay undertakes an in-depth
review of five scholastic works on the subject of human resource planning and management, to
arrive at a critical understanding of this process and discipline. The essay concludes that there are
diverse approaches to human resource planning and management.
Berk, L., Bertsimas, D., Weinstein, A. M., & Yan, J. (2019). Prescriptive analytics for
human resource planning in the professional services industry. European Journal of
Operational Research, 272(2), 636-641.
The research question and research objective of the above mentioned study is to develop
a model for human resource planning and management that will put companies in a position to
take decisions pertaining to recruitment and selection of employees in quite a dynamic manner
with the view of maximizing profit while remaining flexible in this respect at the same given
time.
In order to carry out the study, decisions with regard to human resource planning at
various firms have been examined by the researchers, specifically at firms that are engaged in the
buying and selling of contract-based consulting projects. The planning and decision making
activities at the firm have been studied in quite a systematic way so as to arrive at a thorough
understanding of what it is that influences decision making with respect to human resource

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planning at firms and what it is that firms intend on achieving by engaging in such a decision
making process in the first place.
The findings of the research reveal that there are high levels of uncertainty in revenue
forecasts and deals that firms have to deal with which in turn makes the process of recruiting
right people for staffing projects quite a difficult affair for consulting firms.
The researchers propose that adaptive and robust optimization methods be utilized for
the purpose of human resource planning arguing that an adaptive method is one that is capable of
bringing about an improvement in profit while reducing risk over deterministic baseline at the
same given time. The methods that have been proposed are tractable in nature and are effective
on real time data that have been derived from an international consulting company.
In conclusion, it is argued by the researchers that a model of human resource planning
that makes use of the notion of robust optimization be utilized by firms around the globe to make
hiring decisions. By using such a model, the decisions taken by the firm with respect to human
resource planning and management will be of a dynamic and flexible nature with potential profit
improvements being demonstrated via simulations on real or actual data.
The article that has been reviewed is one that is going to prove to be rather useful for the
research work that I undertake on human resource planning as it provides be with an
understanding of the dynamics of human resource planning and management and the key factors
and conditions that are seen to influence human resource management decisions. Specifically, by
reading this article, I have come to understand how a flexible and dynamic model of human
resource planning and management that is based on robust optimization, may be used by firms of

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international standing to recruit the right people in the firm for the purpose of staffing projects
undertaken by the firm.
Murphy, G. T. (2016). Methodological issues in health human resource planning:
cataloguing assumptions and controlling for variables in needs-based modeling. Canadian
Journal of Nursing Research Archive, 33(4)
The research question and the research objective of the above mentioned piece of work is
to uncover the methodological issues that persist in human resource planning in the domain of
health care. Specifically, the research is aimed at cataloguing assumptions and the process of
controlling of variables with reference to needs based modeling.
In order to carry out the investigation, the authors have taken recourse to an in-depth
literature review of the subject matter. The literature that has been reviewed and discussed by the
authors is one that relates to avoidance of atomistic and ecological fallacies, alternatives for
aggregating analysis in order to assess the relation that is seen to exist between utilization of
medical and nursing services and health needs, testing assumptions and how need is something
that is indirectly or directly related to healthcare.
It is the argument of the authors that HHRP models or health human resource planning
models as they are commonly known are those that approximate nursing requirements of the
future on the basis of a wide range of factors that are specific to the type of model that is being
deployed for this purpose. It is further argued by the authors that an urgent need exists of
developing better understanding of idea of what may be termed as sources of bias with regard to
statistical modeling for the purpose of ensuring that researchers are guided by robust and
accurate formulae. The findings of the research reveal that multilevel modeling is something that