Developing Individuals, Teams, and Organizations: A Comprehensive Guide

Developing Individual, Teams and Organisations

Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................2
Task 1......................................................................................................................... 3
LO1............................................................................................................................. 3
P1............................................................................................................................ 3
P2............................................................................................................................ 5
LO2............................................................................................................................. 8
P3............................................................................................................................ 8
P4.......................................................................................................................... 10
Task 2....................................................................................................................... 13
LO3........................................................................................................................... 13
P5.......................................................................................................................... 13
LO4........................................................................................................................... 17
P6.......................................................................................................................... 17
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 20
References................................................................................................................21
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INTRODUCTION
Development of skills and knowledge helps in personal and professional growth of
an individual, in addition to this it also help to improve business performance. This
report is focused on the topic "Developing Individual, team and organization". It
focuses on a detailed analysis of the skills, knowledge and behaviour attitude that
are required by the human resource profession. The report also highlights
information about personal skills and audit, and personal development plans. In
addition to this, the report also helps to differentiate between organizational learning
and individual learning and training and development. The report also helps to
perceive the concept of high-performance working and performance management in
the organization.
The company that is studied in the assignment is “European Metal Recycling”. The
company has its head office in Warrington and deals with the process of scrap
recycling. Currently, there are more than four thousand employees in the company
and its functionally in more than one fifty locations worldwide (EMR Group, 2018).
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Task 1
LO1
P1
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIOURS THAT ARE REQUIRED BY THE HR
PROFESSIONAL
As an HR professional, it is significant to identify the skills, knowledge and the
behaviours that are related to the quality performance of a human resource
professional. This process helps to discover the abilities that one need to develop to
became successful and it also helps to plan a roadmap for development. This report
has been written as an HR trainee working with the European Metal Recycling. The
following are the required abilities for the HR professional
 The HR professional must have sound interpersonal skills, as the HR has to
various departments and the individual that belong to different roles and
responsibilities (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
 The HR of European Metal Recycling must be a post graduate with a degree
in human resource management from a recognised organization.
 The HR of the European Metal Recycling must ensure that he dress
according to the professional code of dressing. The HR must also be polite in
speaking and must have good behaviour.
 An HR professional must practice equity in all the aspects related to the job, it
must include the various job functions such as recruitment, work planning and
employee engagement.
 An HR must have excellent written communication skills, as the HR have to
draft various reposts such as work scheduling, performance report, job
description, Emails and offer letters.
 The HR must have excellent leadership skill as the HR is responsible to lead
and train the staffs of European Metal Recycling
 The HR must have sound technical knowledge related to the software such as
Microsoft Office, Microsoft word and work management software.
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 The HR must also have strong analysis skill, as to identify the need of training
and development in the company and to find out the potential of the
employees of the company (Suriyamurthi et al. 2013).
 The HR must also have negotiation skill, as the HR needs to deal with the
trade unions and the HR also need to negotiate with the staff regarding the
salary and packages.
 In addition to this, the HR must have sound knowledge of the HR legislation
and have the skills to apply the HR legislation in the company to prevent the
interest of the employee and the employers.
 The HR must also able to maintain the reports such as staff handbooks,
employee records and the payroll record of European Metal Recycling
 The HR must have knowledge of the methods that are required to be applied
to deal with the grievances and take the required steps to overcome the
challenges that are rise due to grievances.
 The HR must be able to maintain employee relationship; the HR should make
sure that he helps to keep the interest of the employee and the employers.
 The HR must also have a project management skill that helps to execute the
various projects such as training and development of a large number of
employees, bulk recruitment and management of HR functions.
 The HR should also have a team management skill that helps the HR to
coordinate with the employees of the various departments and work with them
on HR functions (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
 The HR must also have sound knowledge of employee motivation and the
factors that need to be developed in a company for ensuring employee
motivation and employee engagement.
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P2
ANALYSE A COMPLETED PERSONAL SKILLS AUDIT TO IDENTIFY
APPROPRIATE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS AND DEVELOP A
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR A GIVEN JOB ROLE.
Personal skill audit is a process that helps to overcome the weakness and develop
the strengths that are crucial for the process of development at the personal and
professional level (Friedman, 2013). The tool of the personal skill audit is wieldy
used by the executives and the manager as a method for development.
The following is the personal skill audit report of the employee Jane Cambridge who
is working as a human resource officer at European Metal Recycling. The personal
development plan has been developed after taking the following steps:
 A self-assessment form that helps to identify the skills that required for the HR
position at European Metal Recycling is made in the first step. This includes
the skills such as computer skills, personal skills, communication skill and
management skills.
 Based upon the personal self-assessment, the level of skills and qualities of
Jane will be marked. This will help to identify the gap between the skills that
are required and the skill that she is having.
 On behalf of the personal self-assessment, self-development plan will be
drafted to fulfil the deficiency of skill that the Jane Cambridge have.
 The personal development plan will be updated regularly to identify the growth
in the skill and the changes that are required in the plan.
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