02. Manpower Planning- Levels and Approaches

This video lecture describes manpower planning formulated at macro and levels and various approaches to manpower planning.Macro level manpower planning includes population planning and control, literacy and education, health and medicare, housing and employment planning. Manpower planning at the macro level can be formulated by international body like UNICEF and WHO for human resource development across the World; Respective state and central governments for development of human resource of a country; Sectors and industries for their respective manpower requirement and their development. Micro level manpower planning is formulated at the enterprise level. It can be at corporate level for HR policy decision; SBU level for manpower procurement; operational level, say for training and development; and planning short term activities like grievance redressal activity.
There are several approaches to manpower planning which include social demand approach, rate of return approach, manpower requirement approach, quantitative approach, qualitative approach and mixed approach.