Introduction Preface This is an international company which is known as Merck &Co., in the United States which operates in 120 countries with 31 factories and began its operation in 1891. its headed by 11 board of directors, it’s a pharmaceutical company which manufactures and markets both human and animal drugs and descries its self as global research-driven with its mission being to provide quality products to its customers, provide the employees with the best opportunities and to give its shareholder good returns. Some of its brand names include vytorin, zocor, maxalt and vioxx. Human resource planning involves a careful approach of the human resources in a firm since people are the most valuable resources and therefore there is paramount essence to ensure that the appropriate people are accorded their right job whilst making the correct decisions since planning is a forward-thinking issue about courses of action to take in the future. Human resource planning in MSD Company Merck &Co inc or MSD company uses the human resource planning manager to meet the demand of the company of labour, this is because the labour of the human resource is of paramount importance to any organization. The firm faces some problems during the recession of 1980 to 1982 which forced the firm to lay off some of the workers and even the manager. The human resource planning of this company has some written down objectives which ensures that the firm’s employment levels are stable even when the demand for its products is variable and this ensures that there is no exaggerated cost of laying off the employees when the demand of there products get low, it also ensures that the trained personnel is retained through being motivated by good compensation and progressive promotion and lastly they are also there are no problems of succession in the management since they train their personnel to fit in those post depending with their qualification and performance. How the hr planning of msd relate to other personell processes The firm human resource planning is mutually related to other departments especially on matters relating to the selection of employees to ensure that the employed workers fit the vacant position to enable the growth of the company, I ensure that as a human resource base it meets the labour market in terms of the package whilst ensuring all the departments are neither understaffed nor overstaffed. The HR planning is also responsible for the job appraisal of all the workers in the MSD company, this is essential in guarantying that there is the continuous development of the employees through training coupled with proper job orientation to ensure the right job start. Job appraisal is carried out at regular intervals to ensure that the employees with untapped potential are acknowledged and at the same time it present information for promotion and better pay The firm also ensures that the demand for the human resource at a specific point of time is met on time whilst ensuring that there isn’t any pilled up human resource in place since this cost the firm more. The firm prefers to have in place non-human resources at its disposal like raw materials and work in progress. A more concrete reason for this is that the stock of human resource is likely to be upset and bored more so there may be a shortage of labour in t