HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING: THE BASIS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The success and development of any organization or nation depend on the management of its equipment, materials, and other resources, which are managed by the human elements, which need to be adequately planned, to achieve its set targets. Human resource planning is so vital,that its management in terms of recruitment, training, placement, utilization, and disengagement will affect the manpower available, deficient, and redundant. For any organization or nation like Nigeria, with a huge population to take advantage of its human resources and attain its goals, the need for human resource planning cannot be over-emphasized. The paper through the use of observation and contents analysis of the documents available was able to draw inference on the subject matter which includes the significance, objectives, functions, types, process, factors, problems, and solutions to the problems of human resource planning, with a comparison of the human resource planning in the private and public sectors. In conclusion, the need for adequate, effective and efficient use of human resource planning which is very imperative for the attainment of all organizational and national targets was recommended.