human resource planning (HRP) comprises the strategies and routines it has elaborated in order to be better prepared to analyze and develop its human resources, and depends on the extent to which it invests attention and effort in elaborating these strategies
and routines. We assume that such investments in HRP increases the firm’s capacity ...
to plan deployment and development of competencies for organizational ends.
In this paper we focus on two vital aspects of the firm’s HRP: Whether the firm has implemented a formal human resource management (HRM) strategy or not, and to what extent the firm has routines for the analysis of training and development needs.