Abstract
The focus of this chapter is the techniques available to plan the process whereby people enter, move through and leave organisations, in accordance with the overall business objectives. Management’s choice of a human resource strategy will depend on the values held by those in positions of power within the organisation. In most private-sector companies employment policies are usually geared to corporate goals of profit and growth. Here the planning of human resources becomes a search for those individuals who now and in the future will contribute most to the success of the organisation. By contrast some organisations have developed equal opportunities policies and practices. These have considerable implications for the planning of human resources in that they aim, over time, for the population of the organisation to come to resemble that of the local community which the authority serves.
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© 1996 Margaret Attwood and Stuart Dimmock
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Attwood, M., Dimmock, S. (1996). Planning for People in Organisations. In: Personnel Management. Macmillan Business Masters. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13939-2_2
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