Frans Minnaar, Management Advisor

The main purpose with human resources planning is to match the demands of an organisation’s vision with the human resources it has to its disposal.

Once the vision and mission statements have been defined, the organisation must investigate its environment to set objectives.

Organisations formulate objectives in hierarchies. Because we tend to be caught-up in the importance we attach to our own roles and responsibilities, managers often hardly notice this, but there are almost always a hierarchy of objectives; and then I am not talking about strategic objectives that are translated into tactical and then into operational objectives, but about objectives that are seemingly on the “same level” of decision-making.