Human Resource Planning and Organizational Performance: A study of Telecom Companies in Port Harcourt

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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Human Resource Planning and Organizational Performance: A study of Telecom Companies in Port Harcourt

Nwachukwu, Precious Ikechukwu1, Nchey, Gabriel Achukwu2, Oshogbunu, Esther Ogochukwu3, Sokari, Ndomokidem Myra4
1Lecturer, Department Of Petroleum Marketing And Business Studies , Federal Polytechnic Of Oil And Gas Bonny, Rivers State ,Nigeria .
2,3,4Department of management, Ignatuis Ajuru university of Education Rumuolumini, Port Harcourt, Rivers state

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ABSTRACT:-The study was to investigate the influence of Human resource planning on organizational performance. The objective of this research is to determine the influence of human resource planning on organizational performance in the telecom company in Port Harcourt. The study used a well structured questionnaire to obtain data from 160 top managers and middle level managers. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 was utilized for data analysis and regression analysis for the hypotheses. Findings from the study disclosed. HRP has a significant influence on organizational performance (R=0.563, R2= 0.318, P=0.000). Furthermore, finding suggests that an effective human resource planning such as anticipating manpower factors of job satisfaction, understanding peoples need, utilization, motivation, compensation and training and development packages have the capacity to assist the organization in modifying the behavior, increase creativity and increase its workers level of innovativeness and commitment towards improving organizational performance. It was recommended that Companies should spend more on Human Resources; which can lead towards High performance achievement.

Keywords – Human Resource Planning, Organizational Performance, innovation, job satisfaction

1. Introduction

In recent years there has been changes in business world which had adverse effect on business performances .The impact of this , have propel management to strategically sort for ways to manage its limited resources. Among this resources , the most important of them according to (Ashwathappa 2002) is the human resource due to their dynamic nature (Khan,2010), thus , they are central to every organization and their performances is directly associated to quality and the quantity available at any given point of time and rendering their services to the organization. Therefore organizations are making sure that they are in the right quantity, quality, right time and place to facilitate work, by constantly planning ahead of time for them.
In the modern-day context, according to (Mills, 1985). Human resource planning occurs within the broad context of organizational and strategic business planning which entails anticipating and forecasting of manpower need, and possible ways to meet those need effectively. Man Power Planning is making a decision in advance and strategically planning to meet the future requirements of man power in the organization .As process that entails interconnected activities, management human resource plan must continuously be modified to accommodate prevailing human resource changes in the organization.