The purpose of this stage is to develop programmes and ways toof achieving HR objectives, specified in terms of current and possible changes in the situation.

The purpose of this stage is to develop procedures for diagnosing and forecasting the personnel situation.

The purpose of this stage is to align the principles and goals of HR with the principles and goals of the enterprise as a whole, its strategy and stage of development.

combines the characteristics of a person's life experience - general, professional, social (knowledge, skills, habits and abilities)

characterises the motivational sphere of the individual and includes a system of needs, motives, relationships, moral norms, life values (desires, interests, intentions, aspirations, inclinations, ideals, beliefs, worldview)

includes personality characteristics, determined by their biological characteristics (gender, age, type of nervous system, temperament, physical health)

includes personality characteristics, caused by the main mental processes underlying the level of mental development of a person and his/her cognitive (mental) abilities (sensation, perception, representation, imagination, attention, memory, thinking, speech, emotions)

allow to take into account the dependence caused by changes in the number of personnel and technical and economic indicators 

involves determining the total and additional need for specialists in the future based on the saturation rates in the base period, taking into account the need to increase or decrease them in the planning period

takes into account changes in the ratio of factors determining the number of employees

involves analysing changes in the number of staff over the past period and transferring the identified trends (with some adjustments) to the values of indicators in the planning period