Question

Karan finished his graduation from Polytechnic college in the year 2018. He had specialised in repairing of electronic goods. After few months of his graduation, he met his uncle who has a small factory manufacturing electronic circuits used in Television. His uncle informed Karan that he could no longer run the unit so Karan decided to take over the factory. His uncle had two workers. Karan was able to get a huge order of supplying 10,000 units of electronic circuits every month from a popular TV manufacturing company in India. He knew that to meet the orders timely he has to employ more people. In order to do so he decided to formulate Manpower planning. Describe the factors that Karan has to keep in mind while formulating manpower plan.

Answer 1

The factors to keep in mind while formulating manpower plan:

• Kind of people to be employed.

Karan has to recruit the people who have required skill, qualification, knowledge, aptitude, and experience. They should know about the system taking place in electronic goods factory.

• Number of people to be employed:

Karan should employ required number of people. First, he should analyse the order and machines in the factory. Then he has to employ required number of people. Here, 2 employees is not enough, there should be around 10 employees.

• Procure personnel:

Karan should recruit the employees from correct places. Here, he can use his polytechnic college as platform to recruit the people. He can also recruit part-time jobbers if the student is eligible. He should also learn policies and strategies to make people work with trust.