Developing Individuals, Teams, and Organizations: A Comprehensive Guide to HR Practices

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DEVELOPING INDIVIDUALS, TEAMS AND
ORGANIZATIONS

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Section 1................................................................................................................................................3
a) Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour required by an HR professional.............................................3
b) Analysing the personal skill audit of an employee.....................................................................7
c) Creating professional development plan for an employee........................................................8
d) Difference between organizational and individual learning..........................................................8
e) Need of continuous learning and professional development for the sustainable business growth
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Section 2..............................................................................................................................................10
i) Contribution of HPW in employee engagement and competitive advantage..........................10
ii) Different approaches to performance management with examples of organizations.............12
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................13
References...........................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction
Any business organization requires effective employees to achieve the goal of the
organization successfully. They hire people according to their skills which can help an
organization to grow in the market. But, learning cannot be limited to any specific boundary.
One can learn through his/her entire life. Developing professional skill is very much
important in order to gain the success individually as well as for the organization too
(Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). A professional HR of any business organization can help an
employee in this regard. Professional development of any individual is a route to improve the
performance and activity of the organization. There is a link between the individual learning
and development process with the growth of any business organization. This paper is
focussed to examine the role of HR in any company and what are the skills and knowledge
require for a HR to maintain the healthy working environment in the workplace. With the
example of an audit report and the professional development plan of an employee the skills
required for a HR is also analysed. The paper also discusses the different learning process and
its impact on the sustainable development of any company. The High Performance Working
framework and approaches to performance management with real-life examples are also
reflected in this paper. Finally the paper concludes about the need of professional
development in the sustainable growth of any business organization.
Section 1
a) Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour required by an HR professional
Human Resource department of any organization plays an important role in the
development of it. Human resource officer should develop and implement some strategies
and policies to the effective use of the staffs of the organization. One of the major factors of
being a successful human resource officer is an array of skills to deal with any kind of

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situations within the organization. In any business organization there will be diversity of
culture as people come from different places and their individual behaviour will also differ
from each other (Brewster et al., 2016). Human Resource Officer should then have multiple
skills to manage the people in order to maintain the balanced environment within the
workplace.
Any Human Resource Professional should have an organization skill to manage the
people of the workplace in an organized manner. Due to diversity in culture and opinion of
the staffs of the organization, a chance of raising any conflict is very high. A human resource
officer takes care of all the conflicts and takes necessary steps in order to resolve them also.
So, the officer must have a critical thinking skill to judge the complete matter to come to a
decision after listening to it from both the sides. The HR should look closely to all the
departments and he/she should assist the line managers who are working in the organization
to understand the rules, policies and procedures of it. Due to the existence of people from
different countries or culture and there will be employees working irrespective of their
gender, so HR should maintain a healthy environment by promoting equality irrespective of
gender as well as culture in the organization. A strategic mind-set helps an HR to plan and a
strong sense of ethics is also required to examine the moral rights and wrongs of any certain
situation. However, the role of managers varies across the organization according to their
structure (Cascio, 2018). The basic knowledge, skill, and behaviour of Human Resource
Professionals required to play its role is as follows.
Organizational skill- Human Resource Professionals should have organizational skill
to keep a closer look to the various departments within the company at a same time. They
should be capable to assist the line managers in learning the policies and procedures of
working in the organization.