The strategic human resource development plan (SHRDP) is one of the dependent strategic plans and flows from the corporate strategic plan. The SHRDP prescribes what development the people in the organization need so that they can help the organization achieve its strategic objectives. The type of general strategy chosen – entrepreneurial, dynamic growth, analyser, defender, rationalization, liquidation, or turnaround – will have a significant impact on the type of the developmental processes used for the people in the organization. Because it is closer to the people of the organization there are to other influences, other influences, other than the corporate plan, that affect the SHRDP firstly, the SHRDP. Has to be fine-tuned by considering factors in the micro-external environment, such as the local socio-economic conditions, local government regulations and laws, local employment conditions and the impact of local key external stake holders. Secondly, internal subsystems, such as the information systems, the culture and key internal stake-holders, may have essential information or have some influence over what may or may not be done.