Human resource planning for ICL

Abstract

This article relates to a subject which personnel management has wrestled with over the years. How can human resource planning and development become an integral part of business planning in an organization? How can we get the confidence and competence in an organization to address human resource planning just as throughly and professionally as any other aspect of planning the business? And how can the plan be successfully implemented? Answers to these questions have eluded many organizations for many years. This article describes how ICL set out to solve some of these problems. It is not an ordinary story of human resource development. It is about development initiatives and it is about developing human resources for today's and tomorrow's needs, but most of all it is a story of a Chief Executive and his team becoming convinced that human resource development was a necessary and positive contributor to a massive and urgent change programme in the organization and that culture change was a key precursor to effective Human Resource Development.