Manpower Planning Model for Personnel Planning Process: A Bane or Boon of Unbounded Uncertainty and Bounded Rationality

Abstract

Although there have been a substantial number of critical dissections in recent years on how to improve the manpower planning process, most of them have been based on piece-meal rather than on a holistic, systemic inquiry. This exploratory systemic formulation of an innovative framework aimed to organize and steer the manpower planning process in the face of bounded rationality, unbounded uncertainty is almost non-existence or elusive. There are other related issue, such as wicked problems, complexity, and conflict that is also examined. A systemic inquiry is essential because the links connecting these problems to one another and to the planning process are not as clear as many imagined. Among other things, our paper suggested that the potential for improving manpower planning process is an opportunity to take up the challenge of examining and exploiting arrays of methodologies that can assist stakeholders in manpower planning to circumvent the otherwise opaque, inflexible mathematical models of analysis currently employed.

Keywords: Systemic, Uncertainty, Rationality, Manpower planning, Mathematical models