HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE Humanizing the Human Resource Planning Process: HRD at Universitas Terbuka*

Human resource planning has been characterized as the ’process of analyzing an organization’s human resource needs under changing conditions and developing the activities necessary to satisfy those needs ’ (Walker, 1980: 5). In other words, it is about ’planning to ensure the organization has the right numbers of the right people in the right place at the right time ’ (Torrington & Hall, 1991: 49). As such, it is given considerable prominence in the human resource management literature as the basis for effective human resource and organisational management (see, fo