PERSPECTIVE ON MANPOWER PLANNING IN SMALL BUSINESS

Abstract

This study objective is to identify the factor influencing manpower planning in small business based on literature review. Manpower planning definition or based on the terms of "work planning" could be defined as "substitution planning, analysing labour-intensive turnover, recruitment politics, promotion, development and maintenance of staff programmers, and assessing the future needs of the company so that adequate numbers of people can be obtained in time. The study found that small firms are impacted by workforce planning. The consequence is that in order to maintain consistency and sustainability, business owners need to have a succession strategy in place. On the basis of the aforementioned, it was advised, among other things, that business owners should offer successors for their company in plenty of time to provide for training that might ensure their business survives through numerous generations.