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The main objective of having human resource planning is to have an accurate number of employee required, with matching skill requirements to accomplish organisational goals.

In other words, the objectives of human resource planning are to:

1. Ensure adequate supply of manpower as and when required.

2. Forecast future requirements of human resources with different levels of skills.

3. Assess surplus or shortage, if any, of human resources available over a specified period of time.

4. Ensure proper use of existing human resources in the organisation.

5. Anticipate the impact of technology on jobs and requirements for human resources.

6. Provide lead time available to select and train the required additional human resource over a specified time period.

7. Control the human resources already deployed in the organisation.

8. Despite growing unemployment, there has been shortage of human resources with required skills, qualification and capabilities to carry on works. Hence the need for human resource planning.

9. Large numbers of employee, who retire, die, leave organisations, or become incapacitated because of physical or mental ailments, need to be replaced by the new employees. Human resource planning ensures smooth supply of workers without interruption.

10. Human resource planning is also essential in the face of marked rise in workforce turnover which is unavoidable and even beneficial. Voluntary quits, discharges, marriages, promo­tions and seasonal fluctuations in business are the examples of factors leading to workforce turnover in organisations. These cause constant ebb and flow in the work force in many organisations.

11. Technological changes and globalisation usher in change in the method of products and distribution of production and services and in management techniques. These changes may also require a change in the skills of employees, as well as change in the number of employ­ees required. It is human resource planning that enables organisations to cope with such changes.

12. Human resource planning is also needed in order to meet the needs of expansion and diversification programmes of an organisation.

13. The need for human resource planning is also felt in order to identify areas of surplus personnel or areas in which there is shortage of personnel. Then, in case of surplus personnel, it can be redeployed in other areas of organisation. Conversely, in case of shortage of personnel, it can be made good by downsizing the work force.

Human resource planning is important to organisation because it benefits the organisation in several ways.