Diagnostic Assessment: HR Planning, Motivation, Employee Development

This assignment provides a diagnostic assessment of human resource planning within organizations. It explains the importance of human resource planning in talent management, training, and meeting future demands. The assignment compares motivation theories, such as expectancy theory and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and their application in understanding behavioral motivation. Furthermore, it discusses how measuring and managing performance informs employee development through methods like graphic rating scales and 360-degree feedback. Finally, it describes the internal and external factors that influence human resource requirements, including technological advancements, employee expectations, and economic conditions. The assignment concludes with a score of 7/10 and a list of references.

Diagnostic assessment
Student Name: A
Group: September 2021
1.Explain why human resource planning is important to an organisation.
Human resource planning allows a business to better maintain and target the right kind
of talent to employ — having the right technical and soft skills to optimize their function
within the company. It also allows managers to better train and develop the skills needed
amongst the workforce. It enables businesses to meet the future and current demands for
allowing managers to develop and anticipate the skills valuable in a company (Flippo,
Armstrong and Schumm, 2018). It helps in assessing future personnel needs as it
ensure the proper number of employment and type of personnel. It plays an important
part in diversification plans and expansion. It provides highly talented manpower
inventory in the organisation and the organisation depends upon human resource
planning for making international expansion strategies.
2. Compare the use of motivation theories in an organisation.
Expectancy theory refers to the cognitive or mental process of a person in regards to
choosing or making a choice. It explains the process a person goes through to make a
choice.
Maslow's theory of hierarchical needs refers to fulfil its basic to self actualisation needs. It
consist of a five step in a pyramid shape at bottom with basic needs of the pyramid and at
the top more high level (Le Dinh, Vu and Ayayi, 2018). It is used to study how humans
immanently partake in behavioural motivation. This theory has five category of needs
which are physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem and self actualisation.
3. Explain how the results from measuring and managing performance inform employee
development.
Measuring and managing helps a company to improve quality, retain key employees and
be ahead of their competitors. A company can see how well a business is doing by the
amount of customers and profits they make. They can compare how well employees work
by checking each employee individually to see how much they have produced. It can be
done by using standard measurements in order to gain perspective in a service which is
used to compare with another organisation on organisational performance. There are few
ways to evaluate and measure employee performance such as graphic rating scales, 360
degree feedback, self evaluation, checklists and management by objectives.
4. Describe the internal and external factors to consider when planning the human resource

requirements of an organisation.
Internal: Companies that make greater use of tools such as online benefits management,
provide human resources workers with more time to focus on other areas like recruiting or
training and employee development.
External: It has the impacts to potential employers on the supply of labour available. It
considers the employee expectation when planning human resources. It impact the
business to completes its strategic objectives and goals (Antonarakis, 2019). These factors
include demographic change, socio-cultural, labour mobility, change in technology,
employment laws and regulations and state of the economy.
Score
7/10
References
Flippo, R. F., Armstrong, S. L. and Schumm, J. S., 2018. Reading tests. In Handbook of
college reading and study strategy research (pp. 340-366). Routledge.
Le Dinh, T., Vu, M. C. and Ayayi, A., 2018. Towards a living lab for promoting the digital
entrepreneurship process. International Journal of Entrepreneurship, 22(1). pp.1-17.
Antonarakis, S. E., 2019. Carrier screening for recessive disorders. Nature Reviews
Genetics, 20(9). pp.549-561.