3. HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING VERSUS MAN POWER PLANNING
Human Resource Planning mainly deals with broader issues about the employment of people while
Man Power planning is concerned with the traditional quantitative approaches in vogue in older times.
According to Liff (2000), such approaches arrive from a rational top-down view of planning in which well
tested quantitative techniques are applied to long term assessments of supply and demand”. She further observes
that there has been a shift from reconciling numbers of employees available with predictable stable jobs,
towards a greater concern with skills, their development and deployment.