Professional Identity and Practice

Professional Identity and
Practice

INTRODUCTION
Professional identity defined as an professional self concept relied on various attributes,
beliefs and motives. Professional identity construct under some conditions that stigmatized
identity of culture which represents a interesting puzzle. This report is based on Marriott which is
an American international diversified Hospitality industry that franchise a broad portfolio of
hotels and related lodging facilities to give many services under one roof. This report is based on
benefits of ongoing professional development of various stakeholders in an organisation. It also
elaborates requirement of specific skills set and competencies for an organisation with assess
capabilities of own to a specific job role. Further it includes learning theories for personal and
professional development by constructing development plan to enhance some skills. At last it
covers job interview with their strength and weaknesses.
TASK 1
P1 Identify the benefits of ongoing professional development.
Continuous professional development is one of the most important for an individual as
well as for organisation to ensure that a particular person should be competent in their profession
. Personal and professional development is an on going process and continue till professional
career throughout life (Parker and Doel, 2013). That kind of knowledge and skills can be
enhanced by conducting formally and informally conducting training and development programs
to remain always relevant in market place. It is one of the most vital process of professional
development that are relevant in all profession to make it more perfect. Due to the continuous
nature of professional identity that it proved helpful in bringing advance tools and technology
and helps to adopt effective value chain to deliver right value proposition. To make it successful
kinds of approaches proved helpful to enhance level of personality of an individual by giving
proper coaching, training and monitoring each and every activity on daily basis. Professional
identity and practices helpful in giving some important benefits to major stakeholders that are as
follows:
Advantageous for personnel:
In context of Marriott hotel and their employers get important benefits by using
continuous professional development program that are as follows:
Gaining competitive advantage by utilization of human resource:
It is proved beneficial for an organisation by giving training and development to their
employees as per market needs and demand to remain always relevant in market place (Oliver,
2013). In context of Marriott they provide training and development as to remain always relevant
in market after conducting research and development about market trends in proper way.
Efficient manpower:
Ongoing professional development proved helpful in enhance talent and skills of
manpower that directly proved beneficial for organisational development as well for individual
development.

Engagement of people with help of professional development:
Continuous professional development program proved helpful to engage people with one
another because with help of it people can be able to transform right kind of knowledge and
information to right people in right way. By building effective relationship within employees
organisation can be able to give best services to ultimate consumers in Marriott.
Benefits for employees:
With help of ongoing professional development employees get many kinds of advantages
that are as follows:
Intrinsic motivation and satisfaction:
It is one of the most important factor for an employee to get motivation from their work
in which they are engaged (McNeil, Mitchell and Parker, 2013). That motivation come from
when employees are self sufficient regarding their knowledge and skills that are necessary as per
the demand of today. When employee remain enough capable they they always remain motivated
to give their best.
Enhance employ-ability:
one of the another major benefit from the ongoing professional development that it helps
to made an employee enough capable to gain advance employment opportunities. That helps in
enhance their satisfaction level and helps to give best in perspective of organisation.
Personal motivation:
It is one of the most effective for employees that they feel motivated when they get
success by accomplishing challenging task in effective manner (Johnson and et.al ., 2012. )
When an employee remain motivated in giving best then it proved beneficial not for only
organisation but also for an individual to remain always competitive in marketplace to reach at
desirable goals and objectives.
P2 Expectation of professional employer skills and competence.
For an organisation it is very much effective to select best and competent staff members
that are very much precious assets for an organisation. While selecting a candidate organisation
have to evaluate some major skills and capabilities that are proved beneficial for organisation to
lead in competent environment. In context of hotel Marriott to attain desirable objectives to
appoint a skilled candidate for operation manager that are as follows:
Professional skills and capabilities:
for an organisation it is very much important to retain staff members that are very much
skilful and helps to organisation to remain always competent.
Skill of personal presentation and appearance:
It is one of the most effective skill for an operation manager to lead in organisation and
external environment of an organisation. In that skill set manager have to be enough competent