Strategic Planning

Human Resources professionals (HR) initial roles remain closely aligned with personnel and administration, performing duties such as hiring people, budgeting, to help their organization function well. However, effective HR Professionals serve a much more pertinent role to their organization, by using their knowledge skills and abilities to help their organization become more successful. Thus, it is important for HR professionals to work closely with the management they serve in order to gain a better understanding of the organization’s vision, and what the organization hopes to achieve. Human Resource Management needs to align their strategic planning with the organization’s strategy in order to develop and maintain a completive advantage in the field they are competing.

According to Reed and Bogardus (2012), strategic planning is “the systematic way of setting the direction for an organization and developing tactics and operational plans to ensure its success” (pg. 111). Strategic planning is a behavioral science and can be described as an organization’s process of forecasting organizational strategies for what it hopes to achieve and how to g o about achieving their desired outcomes (Darvish and Zahra, 2014) . It is an effective process for determining goals and helping the organization’s management team to focus on what it is they ultimately want to achieve. Organizations use strategic planning as a control mechanism as well, for the purpose of deciding and the implementation of its strategies. Additionally, strategic planning identifies with the organization strategies to improve the bottom line. There are no set ways to plan because planning depends on the organization’s objectives, culture, and current situation/s....

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...ractices. . Human Resources planning will forecast the available employees, their skills and other resources to boost the organization’s strategic advantages. HR professionals needs to know the organizations culture in order for them to maximize their abilities to support the organization success. For example, HR can hire well by matching prospective hires talents to fit the organization’s needs, they can manage employee time to increase performance under budget constraints, HR strategically uses employees to serve business goals Strategic and financial objectives.

In conclusion, If well planned and implemented strategic planning may possible result in higher profitable for the organization. If an organization is competing in the global market, strategic planning will help them to maintain or maximize their advantages in their respective competitive market.