After studying this chapter you should be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of human resources planning in organizations and describe the critical linkages that exist between strategic planning and human resources planning.
2. Describe how managers forecast demand for and analyze the supply of employees in the organization.
3. List four forecasting techniques that are used in human resource planning.
4. Define the terms skills inventory, succession planning, and replacement chart.
5. Identify reasons why a computerized human resource planning system could be useful to an organization.