Management of Human Resource Surplus : Exploring Strategic Manoeuvres

The paper examines the issue of human resource (HR) surplus in modern organisations and explores different perspectives on managing the surplus employees. Based on an analysis of insights, observations and practices in contemporary management world, the paper has explored the strategic manoeuvres synthesizing them into two broad categories that an organisation can craft and implement to manage the HR surplus either proactively or concurrently, so that it can satisfy the stakeholders, ranging from employees and employers to other indirect stakeholders like government agencies, trade union federations, employers' associations and the like. The insights from the paper should prove instrumental to managers and policy makers in managing their human resources putting all the stakeholders in a win-win situation