Exercise: Planning at Smith Manufacturing

Exercise: Planning at Smith Manufacturing

<p> EXERCISE: PLANNING AT SMITH MANUFACTURING</p><p>Objective: to understand HR planning and its interrelation with organizational goals</p><p>Instructions: </p><p>As HR Manager at Smith Manufacturing, the president has asked you to develop a human resource plan for the next 5 years to meet new company objectives. Due to recessionary pressures and the need to be more competitive, Mr. Smith is hoping to increase productivity significantly.</p><p>Departmental Records:</p><p>500 production workers 50 foremen 20 salespeople 60 administrative and office staff</p><p>The rate of admin. staff to production has always remained constant and turnover among production workers averages 10 % per year, 6% for all other workers.</p><p>Marketing Plan Goals:</p><p>-Increase sales by 10% per year over the next 5 years (current sales = $25 million) -VP of Marketing thinks this HAS to come from more salespeople due to the need for more territory coverage.</p><p>Production Goals:</p><p>VP of production wants to add a group of inspectors to improve quality and control. He thinks 10 would do. Productivity of production workers has been improving at a rate of 5% per year with new technological additions each year. Thus, VP here wants to reduce numbers of foremen to one for every fifteen workers over the next two years.</p><p>HR TASK:</p><p>Calculate the workforce required to meet these objectives. Second, come up with a proposal for achieving your human resource plan and be able to back up your reasons. </p><p>Considerations:</p><p>- How can expected surpluses/shortages be resolved? - What methods of projecting supply have been used in this case? - What methods of forecasting future needs have been used? - What OTHER methods would you recommend and why? Would they be as cost effective?</p>

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