Directorate of distance education master of business administration

Long – term HR Planning 
 
 
This is based on projections and long term expansion programmes.  
There will be sufficient time for deep contemplation, programming, 
recruiting and selection.  Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of 
human resources could be taken care of in long – term planning and 
proper tuning.
Various Factors in HR Planning 
Human resource planning at the enterprise level, to a large 
extent is influenced by a number of factors outside the enterprise. The 
human resource planner has to take into account with varying degrees of 
uncertainty political, social, economic and technological factors which 

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will have some influence on the planning process.  Some of the factors 
are: 
1. Government Influence 
 
The central Government also plays a role in stimulating 
companies to plan their manpower resources systematically.  The 
planning commission, the Ministry of Labour, and the Institute of 
Applied Manpower Research have made projections from time to time 
on manpower demand and supply for various skill categories, supervisors 
and managers, over a given time span.  Government departments require 
companies to supply data on their manpower for various purposes, such 
as data compilations or competence to execute certain contracts. While 
providing the data, companies have had to develop inventories of their 
personnel, based on the various skill category classifications, which have 
been used for their own internal manpower planning.  The government 
has also fixed manpower quota for S.C /S.T and monitors the same.
2. Social Factors
Sometimes pressure of public opinion (trade unions, political