Abstract
To assist leaders and planners, the researchers provide a new human resource planning model and suggest best practices for planning and implementing an outsourcing engagement. Based on dynamic HR planning theory, and research into current outsourcing cases and approaches, the researchers provide a roadmap to confront the challenges of outsourcing. The researchers also suggest directions for further research on the contemporary outsourcing issues. First and foremost, HR planning should not be outsourced during the outsourcing process. Companies rushing into outsourcing sometimes depend so much on consultants and potential vendors for advice that the critical job of determining the new organization is left to these third parties. Letting go of this analysis is like letting go of your strategy -- the human resources strategy. The proposed model recognizes the important stages of an outsourcing engagement and describes the role that HR planners need to play during each stage of this organizational change: evaluation, contract negotiation, transition, and stabilization.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Publisher Statement
Copyright Human Resource Planning Society 2005
Recommended Citation
Khanna, Shilpa, and J. R. New. "An HR Planning Model for Outsourcing." HR.Human Resource Planning, vol. 28, no. 4, 2005, pp. 37-43.