Contact the HR department of a firm in the greater Vancouver

Contact the HR department of a firm in the greater Vancouver area and find out whether or not the firm uses any of the following:

(a) Skills/Management Inventories

(b) Replacement Charts or Summaries  

(c) Succession Plan.  

As part of this assignment, provide the name/address of the firm and the name/designation of the person you spoke to. Sometimes, you may need to contact several firms before you find someone in HR who is willing to speak to you. Use the opportunity to build your network of professional contacts for your future career.  

· Once you have completed the above task, form a team of three (i.e. with 2 other classmates) and share your findings with each other. Following that, together as a team, answer the questions below:

1. Were there similarities across firms?

2. Did company size seem to make a difference in terms of strategies used for forecasting the supply of internal candidates?

3. Can you identify any other factors that seem to play a role in choice of forecasting techniques used? 

4. If you are the HR manager, which forecasting strategy or combination of strategies would you use and why?

Refer the following text book for the answers

1. Dessler, Chhinzer & Cole, Management of Human Resources: The Essentials, Fourth Canadian Edition, 4/E, 2015, ISBN-10: 0132114909 • ISBN-13: 9780132114905