Manpower Planning Questionnaire

Name:

Designation:

Highlight your answers to close ended questions in red colour

1. What is the role of HR in manpower planning?

2. Which objectives of your company do you satisfy by doing manpower planning?

3. Do you have your organization specific model for doing manpower planning?
a) Yes b) No
If yes, then specify?

4. Did manpower planning help you during recession?

a) Yes b) No
If yes, then how?

5. How do you forecast demand?

1. Trend analysis
2. Manageerial estimate
3. Delphi method
Please specify, if anything else

6. How do you forecast supply?

a) Staffing tables
b) Skills Inventories
c) Management Inventories
d) Replacement charts
e) Demographic changes
f) Unemployment rate
g) Government policies
Please specify if anything else.
7. After identifying gap, what do you do in case of :
a) Shortage:
(1) Full-time recruitment
(2) Part-time recruitment
(3) Recalls

b) Surplus:
(1) Terminations
(2) Layoffs
(3) Demotions
(4) Retirements

8. In which of the following functions does manpower planning help :

a) Recruitement
(1) Do you have any specific recruitment model of your company? Please name.

(2) What percentage of HR budget is allocated to recruitment?

(3) How do you recruit employees?

[a] Job portals (pl specify the name)
[b] Newspapers (pl specify the name)
[c] Campus placement (please specify institute name, if any)
[d] Head hunting
[e] Placement agencies

b) Training and Development

(1) Do you have any specific Training and development model of your company? Please
name.
(2) What percentage of HR budget is allocated for training and development?

(3) Does manpower planning help you design development plan for your employee?

c) Performance Appraisal
(1) What is the name of the performance appraisal system?
(2) How does manpower planning help in performance appraisal process?

d) Succession Planning
(1) How does it help you doing succession planning?

e) Career Planning
 (1) How does it help you in doing career planning?

f) Strategic Planning
(1) How does it help in long term planning?

(2) How does it help in short tern planning?