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People and Organisations Human resource management (HRM) is the 'grown-up' version of personnel. Personnel management a range of separate, discrete activities related to the workforce. HRM making the most of the workforce as part of a co-ordinated effort to achieve corporate goals NB Planning the Workforce HR is a resource supplying function; it looks at the demand and supply of labour. Demand Given corporate goals and their impact on other functions of the firm; * How many workers will the business need? * What skills will they require? * Where do they need to be? Supply Factors will be internal or external: * How many workers does the business currently employ? * How many are likely to leave over the coming year? * What skills do the current workforce possess? * What impact will changing technology/changes to working conditions have on the workforce's productivity? * What is the state of the local labour market? * What of the labour market more globally? HR must then produce workforce plans to show how the...

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