ASSESSMENT OF THE PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING IN SOUTH WEST ACADEMY

Abstract

This study focused on assessment of the practices and challenges of human resource planning in south west academy institute. The descriptive survey design was used for data collection. Data were generated through personal interview and survey questionnaires. The interview and questionnaires were prepared and conducted to management staff of the organization to collect whether the human resource planning is aligned with the overall strategic business plan or not and to assess the existing human resource planning practices and the challenges to guide the implementation of human resource needs in the organization. I choose purposely all of the management staff of Southwest Academy. The result of this survey was analyzed using descriptive statistics which made use of frequency and percentages with the help of SPSS version 20. And a qualitative data were used using an interview with principal director and directors of Southwest Academy. The results of the study reveal that most of the management staff did not have in-depth knowledge on human resource planning. The study concludes the organization did not have human resource department and managements were unable to being proactive in forecasting human resources needs and also unable to link human resource planning with strategic business plan would affect the effort to achieve the organization objectives. Based on the findings, therefore, a recommendation for Southwest Academy management towards an effective human resource planning is provided. Thus, it is recommended that Southwest Academy should give careful attention to form human resource department, to create integrative and interactive linkage between the human resource planning process and the strategic business planning process and to have automated human resource information system (HRIS) to achieve its overall objective.