45. "Human Resource Planning and Organizational Design"

ABSTRACT

All managers are involved with human resource planning and organizational design. This involvement vries in the extent to which a decision support methodology is employed. Managers will employ a decision support methodology when it is suitable. Because human resource planning and organizational design are supplementary technologies, managers must decide on which is the more suitable. The suitability depends upon the organizational situation. Organizational design is more suitable for non-programmable situations and human resource modeling is more suitable for programmable situations. In particular, at the strategic apex of the organization, human resource management problems become organizational design issues.