Project on Developing Individuals, Teams and Organisations

DEVELOPING
INDIVIDUAL,
TEAMS
AND
ORGANISATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Essential skills and knowledge required for improving the personality of HR professional
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P2. Evaluation of individual ability of audit and preparing plan for professional development 5
P3 Difference between organisational and individual learning-based...................................8
P4 Needs of continuous learning and professional development.........................................10
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................10
P5 Uses of HPW in providing competitive advantage and employee engagement.............10
P6 Different strategy of performance management..............................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management provides big support to every organisation. Many
professionals think HR department as the backbone of a firm (Rummler and Brache, 2012). The
topic of this project is developing individuals, teams and organisations. This assignment will
enlighten various characteristics and traits requires in HR professionals.
Task 1 will tell about all essential skills and learning required for improving the
personality of HR manager and individual ability of a manager will be evaluated. Differentiation
between organisational learning and individual learning have been explained in this task. In Task
2, HPW concept which is stands for high-performance working has been explained in details and
also various techniques of performance development is discussed.
Among this tasks, first one will be more effective because Jane Cambridge case study
will focus on knowledge gap in HR professionals and it will also enlighten how an efficient plan
can improve her traits and qualities.

The purpose of this assignment is to know various methods like self-assessment table,
continuing professional development techniques (CPDT) and SWOT analysis of HR
professionals.
TASK 1
P1. Essential skills and knowledge required for improving the personality of HR professional
Professional development is necessary to enhance the skills, knowledge and attitudes into
employees. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a new technique by which HR
manager can formulate the behaviour of employees. Through this tool, he can examine correct
ability, experience and knowledge required for particular task. Thus, various required skills and
knowledge essential for improving the personality of HR professionals are as follows:
 Ability to maintain knowledge at workplace: Organisations are adapting different
cultural environment at workplace. This difference in culture helps employees to mould
themselves according to the values of other workers (Parmenter, 2015). He learns to
manage and handle the work and coordinate with other employees having different values
and culture. This knowledge will assist employees in maintaining and enhancing ability
and capability required for work.
 Good in making coordination with other functional departments: HR professionals
should be good in building relationships with other departments specially functional
departments. For example TESCO is a big organisation, which has 6,72,000 employees
and each employee is diversified in separate departments. Therefore, in the absence of
proper coordination between these huge no of employees can impact whole company. So
it is the responsibility of HR manager to build healthy relationships with Finance,
Marketing and Production department. Human resource professionals should also assist
line managers and implement policies into the company.
 Promoting equality and diversity of culture: HR professional should be good in
maintaining balance between different cultures (Connor and Pokora, 2012). They should
smartly convince workers to work together for TESCO. HR manager has to generate the
feeling of unity into them.
 Ability of recruiting candidates: A HR professional should involves himself in making
policies for recruiting, developing job descriptions and personal specifications required
for particular role (Anning, 2010). He should post job advertisements through different