Question

Planning to Hire

Human resource planning cannot be done in a vacuum. The HR department needs to understand the company's strategic plan and be able to hire or shed jobs as necessary. As you read the following case, think about how Alicia Brooks, HR manager at Edu-Films, needs to take a balanced approach to hiring the right amount of staff for the company's next big project. In this exercise, please read the mini-case and answer the questions that follow. Edu-Films is a small design company that writes and produces videos for the elementary and high school education market. The company is in the final stages of negotiating a new contract with a U.S. publisher to create 40 videos for a new K-12 math series, and the videos need to be available by the spring of 2017. Business for Edu-Films has been slow over the past three years, and the company has kept staff levels to a minimum. Mindful of the company's flat fiscal results over the last couple of years but understanding that new hires must be ready to go once the agreement is signed, HR manager Alicia Brooks must put together a cohesive hiring plan.

1). What should be Alicia's first step?

A). Check with her colleagues in the industry for possible new hires.

B). Get together with company execs for a planning session.

C). Set goals for hiring new staff.

D). Forecast labor supply and demand within the company once video work starts.

E). Take out a recruitment ad in the local newspaper.

2). Forecasting can use statistical or __________ methods.

A). experimental

B). historical

C). scientific

D). judgmental

E). experiential

3). Statistical methods are excellent for capturing what type of data?

A). Subjective data

B). Scientific data

C). Historical trends

D). Expert data

E). Instinctive data

4). After forecasts of labor demand and supply are known, what comes next in the planning process?

A). Budget review

B). Program implementation

C). Program evaluation

D). Employee appraisals

E). Goal setting and strategic planning

Answer 1

Question:- What should be Alicia’s first step?

Answer:- Forecast labor supply and demand within the company once video work starts

Reason:- This will help in meeting the demand and supply with each other.

Question:- Forecasting can use statistical methods or:

Answer:- Judgment

Reason:- Forecasting is done on the basis of mathematical methods of qualitative tools which are termed as judgmental tools..

Question:- Statistical methods are excellent for capturing what type of data?

Answer:- Historical trends

Reason:- Historical trends can be determined on the basis of past data.

Question:- After forecasts of labor demand and supply are known, what comes next in the planning process?

Answer:- Goal setting and strategic planning

Reason:- Once the demand and supply is predicted, then the organization should focus on Goal setting and strategic planning