Developing Individuals, Teams and Organisation - pdf

Developing Individuals, Teams
and Organisation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours that are required by HR professionals..........3
P2. Personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours ..................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P3.Difference between organisational and individual learning, training and development
Organisational learning...............................................................................................................7
P4 Need for continuous learning and professional development to drive sustainable business
performance.................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
P5 HPW contributes to employee engagement and competitive advantage ............................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P6 Approaches to performance management ..........................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The reason for excellence in highly repudiated organisation is the work performance of
the individual and effectiveness of the teams within them. The interrelation between the potential
of the individual, team and organisation that sanction companies to consider development of
people as a vital part of the business (Anagnostopoulos, Byers and Shilbury, 2014). Whirlpool is
a multinational producer and vendor of home appliances. Its headquarters are in Benton charter
Township, Micigan and United States. This report includes the professional knowledge, skills
and behaviours required by HR professionals. It also involves effectiveness of high performance
work to employee engagement and competitive advantage.
TASK 1
P1Professional knowledge, skills and behaviours that are required by HR professionals
Knowledge required by HR professionals
Knowledge means the information what an employee must knowing being an HR
professionals. HR professional knowledge is where an employee must be aware about managing
and planing their work and priorities. The knowledges which an employee must have to be an
HR professional is been discussed . Leadership: Under this, an employee must know and analyse the comparison in working
of people and their interaction within the workplace. By knowing leadership they are
aware about guiding and motivating the subordinates to give efficiency in their work. Resource Management: Under this, an employee must have the knowledge of strengths,
personal skill profiles and differences between the needs of job roles. It will help to know
the unique points of the employees and to utilize them as an competitive advantage for
the firm. Performance Management: Under this a person must have knowledge about the
strategies for managing and evaluating performance levels of teams and individuals
(Belbin, 2012).
Skills Required by an HR professional
HR is one who deals with the people and looks after the whole recruitment and selection
cycle. So, an employee must have the following skills to be an HR professional.

 Attentive listener: An employee must be attentive listener and should have good
observation (Eime and et.al., 2013). He should not interrupt in between when someone
hid giving his point of view about a topic or sharing ideas or problems. Recruiting and hiring skills: An HR is the one who recruits people for the organisation.
For this process the employee must possess skills that help to read peoples mind , have a
proper communication and make genuine connections with the people. Organizational scheduling skills: Another important skill set that an HR professional
must have is to plan and organise objectives, meetings and appointment in a proper
manner. The person must be able to analyse priorities and collaborate with different
departments in scheduling the calender of the company.
Behaviour required by HR professional
There are some behaviour traits an employee must have to be an HR professional. Curious: A person must have the curiosity of achieving the targets. He must be focused
towards future and must come out with innovative and creative ideas that increases the
productivity and gives profit to the firm. Decisive thinker: Being decisive in thought process is a basic requirement since they
usually take tough decisions for people. And if the person is not decisive than the purpose
of decision may suffers.
 Collaborative: A professional HR must work with co-ordination with people within the
organisation and outside the organisation. He must show respect and be sensitive with
people (Erez and et. al., 2013).
P2. Personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours
Personal Skill Audit
It is way to identified an individuals strength that how much it develop and how much it
need to develop. There are following points for personal skill audit:
Examine the present
Identify current skills and knowledge and analyse them through behaviourally,
functionally and technically.
Look ahead to the future
Improve skills and knowledge according the future need.
Know the gap