Strategic HR Planning: Its Importance and Impact on Organizations

This report delves into the strategic planning process within organizations, emphasizing the critical role of Human Resources (HR). It outlines the steps involved in completing a strategic plan, highlighting the significance of HR's involvement in areas such as employee career planning, change management, and conflict resolution. The report further discusses the negative impacts of excluding HR from the strategic planning process, including potential financial losses and unresolved employee issues. It also emphasizes the importance of HR transforming from an administrative role to a strategic contributor, focusing on talent development and aligning business strategy with HR practices. Finally, the report examines the impact of corporate strategy on HR planning and how these strategies affect employees, ensuring effective business operations and employee well-being. The document concludes by reiterating the importance of a clear mission, vision, and strategic implementation for organizational success.

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1
Steps taken to implement strategic planning in an organization............................................................1
Importance of HR in strategic planning process....................................................................................1
The impact of HR if they are not part of the strategic planning process............................................2
Importance of HR management.........................................................................................................2
The impact of corporate strategy on HR planning.............................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Human resource management is a strategic approach that is used to manage the people
effectively in an organization. They help business to gain competitive advantage ad designs
maximum performance. Thus purpose of human resource department is to achieve success.
Strategic planning process defines the objective by accessing internal as well as external
situation (McLean, 2018). The strategic planning process works on a pre-defined objective
and then plans action to achieve the goal. Strategic planning process is used to implement
strategic plan and the importance of HR strategic planning process. The impact of HR in an
organization is discussed along with the significant of strategic planning process.
Steps taken to implement strategic planning in an organization
Organization completes its strategic plan by firstly clarifying the vision and mission that
allow the team members to be prepared for the future processes. The next step is identifying
the current market position and the competitors (McLean, 2018). The other essential step is
prioritizing the processes that help in handling the critical issues. Once the goal is clear it is
put into implementation and constant feedback and review is taken on timely basis. The plan
is then circulated to everyone in the organization by making them aware about the work flow
(Marchington, Wilkinson, Donnelly & Kynighou, 2016). This will help in designing
corrective measures and rectifying the actions as per the feedback.
Importance of HR in strategic planning process
HR plays an important role in strategic planning process is helping employees in their career
planning. HR also helps groups to initiate and manage the change in the organization by
taking training session (Marchington, Wilkinson, Donnelly & Kynighou, 2016). They ensure

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people are satisfied by the change and listens to the issue and work on it. The role of HR in
strategic planning process is selecting and staffing employees so that plan works in the right
direction (Brewster, 2017). HR is important as they are responsible to deal the employee
conflicts and assistance.
The impact of HR if they are not part of the strategic planning process
If human resource department is not there in the strategic planning process the processes will
not work smoothly and it would be difficult to assist the employees. It can also cause
financial loss in the organization and might take long time to clear the conflicts (Lichfield,
Kettle & Whitbread, 2016). Thus, it is important to have a clear HR planning so that
advancement can be created. They gain the knowledge from industry and build relationship
and alliance for all the roles and functions inside and outside the organization (Bryson,
2018).
Importance of HR management
It is to access the current staff and then understand new talent to develop skills. Talent
development is a crucial part for strategic human resource. They hire employees and offer
them training so that employees are encouraged to continue the development cycle (Bailey,
Mankin, Kelliher & Garavan, 2018). They assure that company culture is integrated and
employee health, safety and quality of work. In addition they also document the strategic
planning process so that there exist visual representation.
The impact of corporate strategy on HR planning
Corporate strategy also helps in integrating the business strategy and focus on talent
development. Being a strategic contributor demands the high levels of business knowledge
and skill can be present in HR (Wolf & Floyd, 2017). It also requires information systems

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that have the right metrics and analytics, and organization designs and practices that link HR
managers to business units. These strategies affect people working in these organizations by
offering them a medium through which employee can share their concerns and conflicts.
They are used to operate the business effectively (Wolf & Floyd, 2017).

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Conclusion
It can be concluded that strategic planning process covers few steps like fixing up a clear
mission and vision. The next step is identifying the current market status and value of an
organization along with its competitors. The goal should be clear so that action plans could
be defined accordingly. The importance of HR management team is also listed and the
impact on an organization if there is no HR management team in the strategic planning
process is also listed. Once the goal is clear it is put into implementation and constant
feedback and review is taken on timely basis. The plan is then circulated to everyone in the
organization by making them aware about the work flow.

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References
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Lichfield, N., Kettle, P., & Whitbread, M. (2016). Evaluation in the Planning Process: The
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Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A., Donnelly, R., & Kynighou, A. (2016). Human resource
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McLean, M. (2018). Understanding your economy: Using analysis to guide local strategic
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