DEFINITION “ The process by which management determines how the organization should move from its current manpower position to its desired manpower position.” -Vetter Manpower planning involves two stages  “planning of manpower requirement for all types and levels of employees throughout the period of plan.”  “the planning of manpower supplies to provide the organization with the right type of people from all sources to meet the planned requirements.”

Ensuring maximum utilization of personnel Assessing future requirement of the organization Determining the recruitment sources Determining the training requirements OBJECTIVES

IMPORTANCE OF MANPOWER PLANNING 1. Key to managerial functions 2. Efficient utilization 3. Motivation 4. Better human relations 5. Higher productivity

PROBLEMS IN MANPOWER PLANNING  Difficult to prepare long range forecasts accurately.  Changes in economic conditions  Lack of top management’s support

1.JOB ANALYSIS  It is a process of discovering and identifying the pertinent information relating to the nature of a specific job.

 Technical skills  Human skills  Conceptual skills

3.Personnel forecasting  Manpower inventory Inventory of the existing personnel to compare what exists in stock with what can be expected in stock at future dates  Expected loss and extra manpower  Labour turn over The rate of change in the number of employees.  Workload analysis  Workforce analysis

4.Projecting supply of human resources  Estimate the number and kind of employees that are expected to be with the organization after one year, two-year and so on 5.Comparing forecast demand with projected supply

Programme of recruitment, selection and training, transfer and promotion

Guidelines for recruitment of various departments in hospital Doctor - bed ratio :- 1:5 Nurse - bed ratio :- 1:3 in teaching hospital and 1: 5 in non teaching hospital

Nurse – Bed ratio for Different Wards

 X - ray dept   Medical laboratory  Pharmacy  Laundry  Dietary services  Sanitation and house keeping  Security  CSSD  ECG department

Basic B.Sc nursing

Teacher student ratio= 1:10 BSC. NURSING: POST BASIC

Basic BSc., Post Basic BSc. & MSc. Nsg Teacher student ratio= 1:10 (Basic BSc., Post Basic BSc.N) 1:5 (MSc. N)

Part time teachers/ External teachers  Microbiology  Bio chemistry  Psychology  Nutrition  English  Computer and  Hindi/ Any other language

7.Training and development programme 8.Evaluation of manpower planning effectiveness