1. What is human resource planning? How does it relate to other human resource management activities? Human resource planning is setting plans and the process of
plans. It relates to other human resource management activities because of how articulate and thought out it is. Since planning is involve in human resource planning
it goes hand in hand with HR that helps you see demand and supply. 2. How can an HRIS help organizations respond to today’s pressures to reduce costs and be more
efficient? 3. Describe the pros and cons associated with outsourcing most of your organization’s HR functions to an independent vendor for a contract period of 10
years. 4. What factors would affect your choice of an HR planning system? What factors would influence your choice of forecasting methods? 5. Assume that your
organization wants to retain senior employees who might otherwise want to retire. What incentives and other retention techniques should you use to keep these valued
employees? Explain. 6. Why are skills inventories important to an organization? Explain. 7. Assume that someone hacked into the HR records of your company. It
appears that employee names, social security numbers, and home addresses were downloaded by the hacker. If you were the Director of HR for this company, what would you
do in this situation? For the employees today? To prevent this kind of identity theft from happening again in the future? 8. What kinds of action decisions are
available to an organization when there is a surplus of labor? A labor shortage? 9. What is succession planning? How have HRISs helped companies to integrate career
planning with effective succession planning? 10. In your opinion, will HR planning become more or less important as we near the time in which the baby boom generation
will begin to retire? Explain.
