Describe the factors that Karan has to keep in mind while formulating manpower plan.

Question

Karan finished his graduation from Polytechnic college in the year 2018. He had specialised in repairing of electronic goods. After few months of his graduation, he met his uncle who has a small factory manufacturing electronic circuits used in Television. His uncle informed Karan that he could no longer run the unit so Karan decided to take over the factory. His uncle had two workers. Karan was able to get a huge order of supplying 10,000 units of electronic circuits every month from a popular TV manufacturing company in India. He knew that to meet the orders timely he has to employ more people. In order to do so he decided to formulate Manpower planning.

Describe the factors that Karan has to keep in mind while formulating manpower plan.

Answer 1

Karan has to formulate manpower planning keeping in mind the following: 

(a)  What kind of people are required? To carry on its work, each organisation needs personnel with the necessary qualifications, skills, knowledge, experience and aptitude for work. Since it is a factory, Karan will need more semi skilled employees keeping in mind that they will be manufacturing electronic circuits. He will also need a manager to supervise the production work.

(b)  How many people are required? This question deals with the quantity of personnel the enterprise needs. Presently the factory has just two employees, so Karan will need at least ten workers to achieve the production target every month. This number of employees will be taken into account keeping in mind the absenteeism and turnover. 

(c)  How to procure personnel? As the next step in manpower planning, entrepreneur clearly mentions the strategies, methods, policies, rules and regulations pertaining to employees. He can approach his own polytechnic college and recruit fresh graduates. He has to properly train the employees so that there is less error in production and the target is completed on time.