Frederick Mahendra Kumar. Tampoe's scientific contributions

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Article
This article relates to a subject which personnel management has wrestled with over the years. How can human resource planning and development become an integral part of business planning in an organization? How can we get the confidence and competence in an organization to address human resource planning just as throughly and professionally as any...

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... Like most organisational practices, however, the effectiveness of HR planning depends on the context within which it is utilised. The various methods of formal HR planning are appropriate only in the light of the speci® c objectives in mind (Walker, 1990). There are three fundamentally different kinds of HR planning objectives. ...
... The definition of knowledge workers by the Malaysian government shows some dissimilarity from those used in countries such as the USA, UK, Australia and Germany etc. For example, looking specifically at Tampoe's (1992) definition of knowledge workers, not all university graduates or diploma holders can be regarded as knowledge workers unless they actually practice what they have learned. In Malaysia, knowledge workers are now becoming the crucial resource for the growth of Multimedia Super Corridor status companies (MSC IS, 2003;Tyndall 2002). ...