Deeply concerned about the level of angst or anxiety and uncertainty among existing staff,
the Vice Chancellor tried to reassure employees about the future direction of the university.
However, the Vice Chancellor is convinced that more needs to be done and has hired you to
provide the director of human resources with some recommendations to improve planning for
the university’s human resource needs. Based on the above mentioned case study write a
report that answers all the three questions:
1. What are the external factors that are affecting the labour profile needed by the
university?
2. Identify and critically discuss the ways that the HR planning function within the
university could provide better information to university decision makers.
3. Given the information in this case, what are the advantages and disadvantages of
the downsizing of staff numbers at the university?
