However it may influence the business strategy by drawing attention to ways in which people can be developed and deployed more effectively to enhance the achievement of business goals as well as focusing on programme that might have to be resolved to ensure that the people required will be available and will be capable of making the necessary contributions (Armstrong, (2009). Taylor 2008) stressed that employers quite simply prefer to wait until their view of the future environment clears sufficiently for them to see the whole picture before committing resources in preparation for its survival.