Importance of Continuous Learning and Professional Development for HR Professionals at Tesco

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Determine appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required
by HR professionals.....................................................................................................................3
P2 Completed personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviors and
develop a professional development plan for a given job role....................................................5
M 1 detailed professional skills audit that demonstrates evidence of personal reflection and
evaluation.....................................................................................................................................8
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................8
P 3 Analyze the differences between organizational and individual learning, training and
development.................................................................................................................................8
P 4 Analyze the need for continuous learning and professional development to drive
sustainable business performance..............................................................................................10
M 2 Apply learning cycle theories to analyze the importance of implementing continuous
professional development..........................................................................................................11
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................11
P 5 Demonstrate understanding of how HPW contributes to employee engagement and
competitive advantage within a specific organizational situation.............................................11
M 3 the benefits of applying HPW with justifications to a specific organizational situation...12
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................13
P 6 Evaluate different approaches to performance management and demonstrate with specific
examples how they can support high- performance culture and commitment..........................13
M 4 evaluate the different approaches and make judgments on how effective they can be to
support high-performance culture and commitment..................................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The aim of this unit is to provide with the opportunity to appreciate that developing knowledge
and skills to achieve high performance is a cross- organization activity. Employees will
recognize that their own professional development is just one route to improving the
performance of those teams and organizations in which they work. Tesco is a British
multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City,
England. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-
largest in the world measured by revenues. This report contains issues such as Determine
appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required by HR
professionals. Personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviors and
develop a professional development plan for a given job role. Difference between individual and
organizational learning, training and development. the need for continuous learning and
professional development to drive sustainable business performance. Understanding of how
HPW contributes to employee engagement and competitive advantage within a specific
organizational situation. Different approaches to performance management (Moxen and
Strachan, 2017).
LO 1
P 1 Determine appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviors that are required by
HR professionals.
HR professional in companies such as Tesco have to be the one to take responsibility of
employees in order to teach and train them with effective practices so that they are able to work
efficiently and make progress in their skills. With the help of profession map of HR company
can easily assess that what form of knowledge, skills and behavior they need to have.
Knowledge-
HR of Tesco must have the knowledge of the present trends or anything with that
information that can help the company to grow. They need to develop their attitude and
personality towards audience so that they can grab their attention or keep on motivating them.
this way the audience they are targeting can easily understand the importance of training and the

techniques that are imposed in it. They need to make sure that before training others with
techniques or use of software they are fully perfect in applying the codes for it. Other than that it
is important that they have knowledge and information about the needs and demands of
employees who are working in the company (McClory, Read and Labib, 2017).
Skills-
HR of company must have adequate skills that helps to operate and guide all other
departments so that they can be managed error free. This is because their role is concerned with
all of those departments as many of the decisions taken for them are done by HR. it is important
that they appreciate and accept a more diversified culture so that they can increase their strength
in the aspect of communication and make their networking more stronger. The skills that is
required in order to be an effective HR in a company such as Tesco involves setting up the
budget for different departments and allocating them in the right area. Apart from that setting up
compensation, benefits or performance appraisals which is set as per the policies and guidelines
formed by the company. They also have to engage or be a part of social activities and encourage
employees to be a part of this too. It is important that before taking the decision they plan out
everything so that it turns out to be right and they can easily manage employees of company.
With this they have to evaluate the performance of each employee in company so that they can
make the required changes in their procedures (Lin and Sanders, 2017).
Behavior-
It is important that HR of company must gain some knowledge of every area they have to
deal in. This is because of behavior of HR works on a professional approach. It is important for
them to assess that what form of structure is suitable to them. This way they will be able to
assess it on the basis of their professional behavior HR must be able to assess that their
employees have potential as per goals set by them. They need to make sure that the environment
formed by them is comfortable to them. This way HR can rely on them and leave some short
term decisions on them. Environment of company must be in that form that they are able to make
sure that employees are able to support each other and the efforts put together by them will help
them to make society a better place for them. behavior of HR must be appropriate so that they
can set the remuneration and incentives for employees which satisfies them. This is an important