Question

Planning to HireHuman 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). experimentalB). historicalC). scientificD). judgmentalE). experiential3). Statistical methods are excellent for capturing what type of data?A). Subjective dataB). Scientific dataC). Historical trendsD). Expert dataE). Instinctive data4). After forecasts of labor demand and supply are known, what comes next in the planning process?A). Budget reviewB). Program implementationC). Program evaluationD). Employee appraisalsE). Goal setting and strategic planning

Answer 1

I added each answer under the it question. The answers are in bold letters.

1. What should be Alicia’s first step?

her first step should be to Forecast labor supply and demand within the company once video work starts

. Which is option d. Which will help to meet the demand and supply,

2. Forecasting can use statistical methods or:

Judgment. option d

forecasting is done usimg qualitative methods. these methods are judgmental tools.

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

c. Historical trends

we can use data from the past in determining trends.

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

e, Goal setting and strategic planning

after demand and supply has been predicted, the next focus should be on setting goals and strategic planning