A fictional case study examining HR planning & issues.

1.0 INTRODUCTION The Pacific Supermarkets case raises the issues of retaining good performers, human resource planning, or lack thereof, along with other issues of recruitment and selection. The outline of the case is such that the regional manager, Ms. Susan Chapman, has become aware that Mr. Phillip Bailey, her top district supervisor, has accepted an appointment with Safeway through reading the announcement in the newspaper. After talking with Mr. Bailey, Ms. Chapman has decided to transfer …showed first 75 words of 3082 total…

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