Whirlpool Developing Individuals, Teams and Organisations

Developing individuals, teams
and organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours required by HR professionals in Whirlpool.
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P2 Evaluating Personal skills audit and professional development plan for job role in
Whirlpool................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Differences between organisational and individual learning, training and development,
with reference to the whirlpool company...............................................................................6
P4 Importance of continuous learning and professional development to develop sustainable
business performance in Whirlpool........................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5. Contribution of high performance working in employee engagement and achieving
competitive advantage............................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P6. Management of performance by using different approaches.........................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resources professionals are having significant role in developing never skills in
the workforce of company to perform better in work culture. HR professionals should be
responsive toward the employees of company (Ainscow and Sandill, 2010). By acting
responsibly HR professional can develop new knowledge, skill and capabilities in employees to
contribute in enhancing the success rate of business firm.
Whirlpool staff and HR professional are active and responsive toward the company
newer strategies in order to deal with company of 2011 in country. The staffs of whirlpool are
active in working collaboratively as per requirement of changing external scenario.
In this particular report various skills required in HR professional is identified and
changes required in their action and behaviour as per the new policies and strategies accordingly.
This specific assignment studies about organisation learning and development comparing with
individual self-learning approaches. This report all differentiate between organisational and
individual learning. Continuously learning and professional development is also being discussed
in follow report and this approach is evaluated on the grounds of importance and contribution of
continuous learning on achieving sustainable business performance.
TASK 1
P1 Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours required by HR professionals in Whirlpool.
Behaviour of an individual can be defined as the style by which actions are accomplished
by a person. Behaviour describes the nature and responsive se of person executed against
particular situation (Amabile, 2012). The HR professional should have specific set of skills and
appropriate knowledge in order to act responsible changing need of organisation. The behaviour
or the nature executed by an HR professional in his work life largely helpful in determine the
compatibility of individual with job role. Behaviour aspect of human resources professionals of
whirlpool company can be a determine attribute for the person competence in working culture of
the firm which are described as below.
Skills:
Communication: It is one of the crucial skills that is been possess for the purpose of
getting maximum results in near future time. with the help of proper communication, one can
easily be able to attain their targets.
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Team working: It is an essential for the workers that are combine with their individual
skills in pursuits of a goal. Significance of team work in the workplace consists of accomplishing
task more effectively in near future time. The HR professional can use different activities to
build an effective team through which interpersonal relation are improved, encourages
collaboration, cooperation between employees. The activities which HR manager can use are
problem solving activities in which members faced set of challenges i.e. to work in a limited
resources, map a plan according to resources and achieve goal together. Goal setting activities in
this goals are need to clear so that employees can perform task easily. Role based activities in
this manager can defined clear role of employees so that they are being able to accomplish team
goals. Communication based activities in this group discussions, group presentation are take
place to emphasise the importance of interpersonal skill with the help of these activities HR
manager will able to make their employees work in a team.
IT: It is crucial for an individual as well as team to have proper information about the
internet and computer knowledge so that all kind of data can be stored in appropriate format. The
skills required by HR professional related to IT. They must have knowledge about social media
so that they are being able to post information regarding job opening on company's page and
encouraging employees to share that post so that they reach maximum candidates and brand
visibility is also increased. They are required to have knowledge about HRIS, ATS, cloud
technology etc. used to hire employees and manage organisational activities through which HR
tasks will improves team productivity and efficiency. ATS used to examine new candidates
through screening, interview schedule etc.
Curious: - the HR professional should be curious to know about new things and approach
to execute the task more accurately. Curiosity is having significant role is enhancing the
knowledge of person and also contribute in acting confidently toward any critical situation in
business by applying gained knowledge.
Decisive thinker: - Decisive thinking is a trait of behaviour which helps in developing
analytical approach toward any problem in life. The person showing decisive thinking in
behaviour having ability to analyse and interpreted the appropriately (Choi, Lee and Yoo, 2010).
The decisive thinker person who regiment and reinstall the decisions and develop dependable
decision to react actively toward the situation of the business firm HR professional can make
efficient and profitable decision for firm and work force of company by using his skills and
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