During the past two and a half decades, the practice of human resource
planning (HRP) in Canada in both government and private sectors has
experienced considerable evolution. This paper provides a chronological
perspective of the development of HRP in Canada since the mid-1960s. The scope
and depth of HRP have been affected not only by the availability of information
processing techniques, fluctuations in the economy, the unemployment rate, and
the demand for specialized personnel, but also by the Canadian vision of a just
and humane society, as enacted by governmental and corporate management
groups.
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