For a long period of time the industrial sector, whether
private or public, has been facing an extraordinary rate of
change which is focused on making organizations more
flexible in their management systems, methods, policies
and strategies. Criticisms have been made of the
management systems established in the early 1990s,
especially, human resource planning. These criticisms
were made on the basis that there was no fit of the
human resource planning with the organizational
objectives which lacked flexibility to have a fit with the
external environment. Mello (2001) articulated that
human resource planning is vital in organizational
unstable periods like during mergers, amalgamation,
consolidation and when labor market settings are studied
or when joblessness is low. Kroger Company evaluated
its employee analytical skills, how they manage stress,
and how they exhibit self-control while rendering
customer services; they planned to select the candidates
for the evaluation on the basis of a survey which they
carried out through their customers on what factors
actually affect customer services (Murphy and Zandvakili,
2000). Employees in the market are lacking in the core
competencies required by a particular organization. So,
*Corresponding author. E-mail: shahid_javed1020@yahoo.com.
more focus is on current managements’ adoption of more
strategic approaches towards human resource planning
in such complex and contemporary employee matters.
On the basis of conceptual frame work, our objective in
this study is to identify the best approaches to human
resource planning and how a reorientation of human
resource planning can be delineated to obtain an optimal
internal fit that aligns HRP with strategic objectives and
an external fit that aligns HRP to the changing external
environment.