Performance Management Systems and Strategies

DIFFERENCE WITH MANPOWER PLANNING

Often career planning is considered synonymous with the manpower planning. Manpower planning, among other things, provides higher management the data on the inventory of skills and potentials available in the organization, based on which, expansion, technology upgradation, etc., are undertaken by the organization. Inventory of manpower resources, manpower needs in terms of number, types, skills, levels and time, possible changes in functions and activities with the passage of time, desired behavioural or attitudinal changes required meeting the manpower needs, training opportunities, resources, and training time, etc., are the basic information required for manpower planning.

However, manpower planning also encompasses ...