Developing Individuals, Teams and Organisations

Developing Individuals,
Teams and Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P.1 Appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviour required by HR professionals..................1
P.2 Evaluate personal skills audit...........................................................................................2
M.1 Detailed professional skills audit that reflects personal reflection and evaluation.........6
D.1 Detailed professional development plan .........................................................................6
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P.3 Differences between organization and individual learning, training and development . 6
P.4 Evaluate need for continuous learning and professional development ...........................8
M.2 Learning cycle theories to evaluate importance of implementing continuous professional
development ..........................................................................................................................9
TASK 3 .........................................................................................................................................10
P.5 Methods through which High performance working contributes to employee engagement
..............................................................................................................................................10
M.3 Benefits of applying High performance working with justifications to specific
organizational situation .......................................................................................................11
D.2 Appropriate judgements that High performance working supports staff members......11
TASK 4 .........................................................................................................................................11
P.6 Different approaches to performance management.......................................................11
M.4 Critically evaluate different approaches can support to high performance culture and
commitment..........................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Staff members are working in the company for accomplishing their objectives.
Developing persons and creating effective team is important for every firm. It is the
responsibility of manager to motivate all employees and they organize training programmes to
increase their skills and knowledge so that it leads to attainment of results (Barrett, 2018).
Developing skills of staff members helps the company to increase the skills and knowledge of
employees. Assignment describes about the Whirlpool company which is a home appliance firm.
Report explains about monitoring the employee's knowledge, behaviour and skills and these
traits are required by HR professionals. It describes about application of ways in which high
performance working contributes to employee engagement and competitive advantage and ways
in which performance management, collaborative working, effective communication can support
high performance culture and commitment.
TASK 1
P.1
HR must possess knowledge and skills so that they can handle all activities such as
recruitment, selection, providing training and compensation etc. in proper manner. Human
resource manager must interact with staff members and solve their issues. This helps in
increasing motivation level of all employees and workers can give superior results. HR manager
of Whirlpool can also organize training sessions and this also helps in enhancing skills and
knowledge of staff members. In this manner, organization can improve their performance.
Skills required by HR professionals in Whirlpool are:
Teamwork skills: HR manager properly interact with staff members and solve their all
problems. They also take their suggestions so that firm can improve their methods and process.
This helps the Whirlpool to run smoothly and successfully through improved team efforts.
Interpersonal skills: HR manager must posses interpersonal skills such as confidence,
communication, positive attitude, critical thinking and problem solving. This is important so that
HR of Whirlpool can create good team and all employees perform activities to accomplish
objectives (Breuer, Hüffmeier and Hertel, 2016).
Knowledge: Hence, HR manager possess necessary knowledge so that all tasks can be
handled in proper manner (Burke and Morley, 2016). Different kinds of knowledge which is
required by HR manager of Whirlpool are:
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Laws and legislations: HR manager must posses knowledge relating to rules and
regulations formulated by the government so that there is minimum disruption in business
activities Thus organization can survive in industry and can earn huge profits.
Process and Methods: HR must have knowledge regarding different methods and
process such as training and development, recruitment and selection, compensation provided to
workers etc. as then only workers can accomplish the objectives. This helps HR to accomplish
objectives in minimum time and Whirlpool can run smoothly.
Behaviour: It is important that HR manager must behave with staff members in effective
manner i.e. with honesty, integrity and ethically. This motivates employees to give good
outcomes in terms of performance and maintain a positive environment within business.. Some
behaviour which is requited by HR professional in Whirlpool are described below:
Accountability for results: HR manager is answerable for decision and actions which are
undertaken by him. Human resource manager give rewards to employees who are giving best
results. This motivates all workers to perform better and to give superior outcomes.
P.2
Personal skill audit is process for measuring and recording skills of an individual or
group. Main objective is to identify skills and knowledge that firm requires and the knowledge
which the organization currently has. HR manager of Whirlpool can give advice to employees
relating to their performance so that they can give best results (Fernandez and et. al., 2015).
Different skills are required by personnel manager such as team building, high confidence level
and problem solving etc. I have my personal audit plan so that I can evaluate my strengths and
can improve my weakness. Skill audit plan is explained below:
S. No Competencies and skills Self assess score Score from
others
Variances
1 Team building activity 8 8 0
2 Problem solving activity 7 9 -2
3 Decision making capacity 9 8 1
4 Confidence level 7 8 -1
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