The important objectives of manpower planning in an organization are
- To recruit and retain the human resources of required quantity and quality.
- To foresee the employee turnover and make the arrangements for minimizing turnover and filling up of consequent vacancies
- To meet the needs of the program of expansion, diversification etc.,
- To foresee the impact of technology on work, existing employees and future human resources requirements.
- To improve the standards skill .knowledge,, ability, discipline etc.,
- To assess the surplus or shortage of human resources and take measures accordingly.,
- To maintain congenial industrial relations by maintaining optimum level and structure of human resources;
- To minimize imbalances caused due to non-availability of human resources of right kind ,right number in right time and right place;
- To make the best use of its human resources; and
- To estimate the cost of human resources.
