Question:
(a) "Current pressures to control labour costs and protect tighter profit margins demands an increasing rather than decreasing emphasis on human resource planning" (Marchington and Wilkinson 2001). Discuss this statement.
(b) Distinguish between hard and soft human resource planning and explain the importance of having a proper mix of both hard and soft approaches to human resource planning. Explain with relevant examples.
(c) Provide a diagrammatic representation of the process of human resource planning. Describe the entire process of human resource planning through the use of this diagram.