Developing Individual Teams and Organisations

Developing Individual,
Teams and Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours required by HR professionals.....................1
P2 Completed personal skills audit and develop a professional development plan....................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Differences between organisational and individual learning, training and development......5
P4 Need of continuous learning and professional development ................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Contribution of HPW in employee engagement and competitive advantage........................8
P6 Approaches of performance management.............................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In every business entity, team building plays a very significant role in growth and
development of employees. It is essential for leaders to provide training and development
assistance to all of their subordinates in order to develop effective teams. While developing goals
and objectives for the company managers need to align them with their activities. So as to gain
maximum profitability from target market. Along with this, team building can also helps
managers so as to find appropriate solutions and create effective relationship with them (Baiden
and Price, 2011). WALMART is the chosen organisation in this present assignment; which is
one of the largest retailer of supermarket chain. The firm is located at worldwide, it has almost
11700 stores. Apart from this report will be define skills and knowledge of HR professionals.
There will be a differentiation between organisational and individual learning. The role of HPW
will be also described in order to achieve competitive advantages from target market. The
assignment will be define various approaches of performance management.
TASK 1
P1 Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours required by HR professionals
In today's scenario, HR manager plays a very vital role in growth and development of
business entities; the person also put a huge impact on business performance and its operations.
Human resource professional is liable to take over the leadership and ownership regrading the
process of change management. In WALMART, the person helps in introducing certain policies
and practices of the company, managing workers' performance, designing an effective
organisational cultural so as to achieve goals and objectives.
Skills of HR manager – Must be a good communicator – It is foremost quality of HR managers, as they must be
good communicator who can easily interact with all employees in an adequate manner
(Warrick, 2011). This will help him to know certain problems and issues of staff
members so as to resolve them and providing healthy working environment to people. Leadership and management skills – A good leader is capable to lead all working
activities and manage projects. It results to achieve high competitive advantages in a
minimum period of time. In addition, WALMART has effective HR professionals who
are able to maintain performance of all team members and they also provide them
directions or necessary directions so as to achieve high volume of production.
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 Change management skills – Another important skill of HR human resource manager is
that, he or she is capable to implement changes effectively and able to managing them in
proper manner. Due to changing environment, business entities are required to make
some alterations in so as to make impressive business operations and practices. Technological skills – HR managers are culpable for making innovative ideas and
thoughts in order to achieve performance management goals and objectives. Along with
this, he should have knowledge regarding to make best use of technology. It is accessible
in identifying new ideas and inventions. Decision making capability – Human resource manager of the company, should capable
to take fast decision so as to gain high competitive advantages from global environment.
In addition, HR professionals are required to take strong and impressive decisions in
order to improve the performance level of staff members.
Behaviour of human resource professionals Ethical behaviour – The behaviour of the HR manager should be very ethical and polite
in front of employees. He or she have to be frank with workers and listen all problems
and issues. In the refereed business entity, human resource professional organise certain
activities to interact with all workers (Seibert, Wang and Courtright, 2011). Fairness – While taking any action or certain business decisions, HR should be fair and
equal with all employees. There would not be any discrimination or partiality in terms of
sex, education, caste etc.
Knowledge of HR manager Knowledge of labour relations – The foremost knowledge of HR is, he have proper
information about labour laws and regulations. It involves a set of phenomena inside as
well as outside of the workplace. Along with this, HR managers have to knowledge to
manage healthy employee relationship, cooperation and coordination among all workers
so as to gain better results. For this purpose, it is crucial to implement free flow of
communication, thorough workers can easily talk with their managers. Knowledge of business – The person have enough knowledge as how to run a business
entity very smoothly. He is capable to determine different ideas and concept to improve
current market position of the company.
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