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Date Submitted: 11/10/2015 12:07 PM
Strategic Planning and its Relation to Staffing
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Abstract
This paper proposes that that decision makers of an organization exist in an environment of strategic issues, where different internal and external factors must be tuned to work coherently for the attainment of the organization’s goals. The paper describes how the process of strategic planning affects staffing. It explains how the content and characteristics of strategic issues translate into effective staffing and implementation of viable staffing policies.
Key words: Recruitment, Organizations goals and strategies, staffing requirements and methods.
Introduction
Top-level decision makers in organizations operate in a market where strategic issues arise now and then. Strategic issues can be described as developments, trends and events that have potential impact on the performance of the organization. They usually represent problems or opportunities that are considered by the management before important decisions are arrived at. The issue that concerns decision makers the most is problems. If not addressed, problems pose a significant threat for an organization’s success (HRcouncil, 2015). The aim of this paper is to shed some light on how strategic planning can be used creatively to address problems of staffing for the realization of an organization’s goals. It describes the close correlation between the process of strategic planning and the benefits realized in the human resource department as a result of these efforts.
Strategic staffing issues are difficult to manage due to the subjectivity involved in their detection and diagnosis. Their complex nature makes the process of identifying them an interpretive and rigorous affair. The recognition of strategic staffing issues and the administrative policies and measures employed to process them provide a channel for conveying concerns that might not otherwise have another outlet to be addressed. Since strategies...