The personnel function currently faces many challenges and threats. Not the least of these is the growing erosion of its status at the strategic management level. The absence of a sound technological foundation is one of the contributory factors. The authors examine the contribution that...

Manpower planners within South African companies have very few, if any, decision support tools at their disposal to assist them in the formulation of their manpower strategies. Such quantitative tools as do exist are mathematically too sophisticated to be easily understood and implemented by...