HR Expert Skills, Development, and Organisational Performance Report

This report examines the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in Hightown Housing Association, a charitable organization. Section 1 delves into the professional skills, knowledge, and behaviors required of HR experts, including the importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and reflective learning. It analyzes personal skill audits to build professional development plans, focusing on communication, time management, and supportive behaviors. The report also differentiates between organizational and individual learning, training, and development, emphasizing the significance of continuous learning and professional development for achieving sustainable business performance. Section 2 is covered in a PPT. The report highlights the importance of effective communication, time management, and supportive behaviors for HR managers, and the development priority objectives for skills development. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of HR in driving organizational success.

Developing
Individuals
Teams
And
Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................3
SECTION 1...................................................................................................................3
(A) Demonstrate the professional skills, knowledge and behaviour which are
required by HR expert in an organisation.................................................................3
(B) Analyse personal skill audit for appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviour to
build professional development plan.........................................................................6
(C) Differentiate between organisational and individual learning, training and
development............................................................................................................13
(D). Describe the importance of continuous learning and professional development
to achieve sustainable business performance........................................................15
SECTION 2.................................................................................................................18
(A) Covered in PPT.............................................................................................18
(B) Covered in PPT.............................................................................................18
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................18
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
The Human Resource Management refers is a strategic approach
implemented by an organisation to gain its competitive advantages. Its main purpose
is to maximise the performance of employees by motivating them through building
good relation among each other. This result in developing engagement, involvement
and co-ordination that leads to complete task with collaboration for achieving specific
target in future. This project is based upon the organisation of Hightown Housing
Association as being charitable company which aims to help people through
providing them support and care with food, shelter and cloth (Alexander, 2017). It
operates business at various headquarters that are Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire and Berkshire of United Kingdom. This project demonstrates
professional skills, knowledge and behaviour of an organisation which are required
by Human Resource Expert. It further analyse personal skill audit for building
professional development plan. Additionally, it differentiates between organisational
and individual learning, training and development with the importance of continuous
learning and professional development to achieve sustainable business
performance.
SECTION 1
(A) Demonstrate the professional skills, knowledge and behaviour which are
required by HR expert in an organisation
Role of Human Resource:- The Human Resource refers as process of
planning, directing and guiding workers to complete their task with motivation.
Managers of Hightown Housing further play various roles in an organisation for
achieving organisational goals and objectives (Cai and Liu, 2015). It enhances the
eagerness of its workers by motivating them through completing their target
efficiently for gaining monetary and non-monetary rewards. Some of these roles of
Human Resource have been discussed as under:-
 Hire new persons
 Develop employee relations
 Provide payroll benefits
 Training and development programs
Continuing Professional Development (CPD):- This refers as the
procedure of monitoring and documenting the skills, knowledge, behaviour and

experience of workers through formal and informal system. It is essential for an
organisation to improve the skills of workforce through specialisation which result in
accomplishment of goals and objectives efficiently. Managers of Hightown implement
this for ensuring the worker to be competent in its profession.
Framework of Continuing Professional Development (CPD):-
Professional Skills:- It is defined as the process through which employees
specialise their skills through training and development programmes (Delaney and
et.al., 2017). Managers of Hightown focus on these professional skills as to improve
specialisation among their workers by developing their skills through clearing their
doubts which result in reduction of errors.
 Effective communication:- This refers as the ability of individual and team to
effectively communicate their message either verbally or non-verbally.
Managers of Hightown can use this skill as to develop good relation among
each other which reduce conflicts. The managers of Hightown Housing are
beneficial as they emphasize leaders to highly manage their leadership skills
that motivate workers to give their best level of efforts. It develops intrinsic
strength as the employees build teams morale and encourage in performing
actions effectively.
 Time management:- It is the process through which individuals and teams
are emphasized to perform their task with time management through
improving efficiency. Managers of Hightown can use this skill as to develop
their strategy for eliminating errors with corrective measures that result in
accomplishment of success efficiently. Managers of Hightown Housing further
focus on completing their target effectively in order to achieve goals and
objectives of business. The main role and responsibilities of managers is to
analyse and determine the weakness that lacks company in accomplishment
of success.
Knowledge:- The main duty and responsibility of every individual, team and
organisation is to have proper knowledge of their work and vision and mission for
which the task is performed. Managers of Hightown focus on this as to develop their
information by updating it with new tactics, technologies and skills in order to meet
the requirement of customers.

 Explicit:- This is described as expressive knowledge by readily articulated,
codified, stored and assessed information which makes aware of the
upcoming task. Managers of Hightown can use this strategy as to take
precautionary steps by their individuals, teams and organisation to control
threats by competing with rivalries (Dewar and MacBride, 2017). The
managers of Hightown Housing have strength as they are been aware of
various situations to deal with it in future. This result in developing solution for
bridging the gap with ease that leads company to achieve success.
 Tacit:- It is also known as implicit knowledge which is difficult in transferring
information to another person by means of writing it down or verbalising.
Managers of Hightown can use this strategy as a piece of explicit knowledge
which could be written down, transmitted and understood by a recipient.
Managers of Hightown Housing face weakness with this implicit or tacit
knowledge as the workers are not aware of such problems which delay in goal
accomplishment by taking more time to solve these unexpected problems.
Behaviour:- This is defined as the ability of an individual to perform its task
with eagerness through active participation which leads to achieve target efficiently.
Managers of Hightown focus on this as they analyse the capability of worker, team
and organisation by observing and measuring their action with specialisation and
time consumption to accomplish success.
 Autocratic:- It refers as the organisation have one leader or boss which
directs and instructs individuals and teams to follow the desired procedure for
achieving the expected result. Managers of Hightown can use this as to
command their workforce verbally by guiding them to complete business
activity as per their instructions. The Hightown Housing managers are highly
strength as they follow the guidelines of supervisors and leaders for
performing their task. This result in accomplishing the target as per the desire
of managers to fulfil the requirements of its customers by supplying them
qualitative services.
 Supportive:- The managers develop good employee relations among their
workers which result in co-ordination and sharing their views and information
among each other. Managers of Hightown can use this as to complete their
goal with understanding emotions and feelings of one another that leads to

support themselves for achieving specific target. The managers of Hightown
Housing face weakness in achieving success by developing its core
competence for sustaining in global market. It majorly face problem as the
workers are not able to co-ordinate with each other through respecting beliefs
and attitudes. This problem leads company for delay in goal accomplishment
and lacks in competing with its rivalries.
 Collegial:- This is described as individuals and teams are delegated various
targets which are to be completed within specific time duration. Managers of
Hightown can use this as to discriminate task in accordance with the
capability of workers for improving efficiency (Eaton, Roberts and Turner,
2015). The Hightown Housing Association is beneficial in developing good
collegial behaviour among its workers by motivating them to complete their
target within particular duration for achieving individual and organisational
goals.
Reflective Learning:- It is a form of education and learning of individual as
being guided by managers to restrict errors through solving doubts and problems
which improve effectiveness. Managers of Hightown focus on this as to develop their
skills through improving skills which result in achieving success efficiently.
The major difference between current and KSB’s required for role of HR is
that it develops various strategies for making the task done by its workers through
proper quality management. It further creates opportunity for growth and stability of
business to sustain in perfect competition market by developing its core competence.
The current skills for Human Resource Manager include team-work, problem solving,
communication skills, time management, Information Technology skills, customer
awareness, etc. These current skills further interrelate with KSB’s that result in
planning, monitoring and controlling the actions of workforce for restricting errors.
(B) Analyse personal skill audit for appropriate knowledge, skills and
behaviour to build professional development plan
Personal Skill Audit:- It is described as the best way for an individual to
identify strength and weakness of performance which might delay in accomplishment
of target. This is essential for member of an organisation as to analyse the effect of
its efforts towards organisation for achieving short and long term goals. Managers of

Hightown focus on this as to develop awareness among their individual and team to
achieve success efficiently. The personal skill audit refers as the procedure through
which managers of an organisation analyse their weakness in skills, knowledge and
behaviour. It further develops essential or precautionary steps to minimise it for
sustaining in global market. There is various importance of Personal Skill Audit,
some of them are mentioned as under:-
 Develop communication skills
 Management and leadership skills
 Stress Management
What do I
want/ need to
learn?
What will I do
to achieve
this?
What
resources or
support will I
need?
What will be
my success
criteria?
Target dates
for review and
completion?
Time
Management
It is essential
for an
organisation to
improve its
time-
management
by motivating
workforce to
give their high
level of efforts
with training
and
development
programs. The
company
further
provides
monetary and
non-monetary
rewards that
For improving
the time
management it
is essential for
managers and
leaders to
motivate their
workers by
understanding
their emotions
and feelings at
various
circumstances.
The strategy
must be
adopted by
managers of
Hightown
Housing for
delegating the
roles and
responsibilities
in accordance
with their
specialisation
that result in
goal
achievement
efficiently.
3 months

encourage
workers to
complete
target at
specified
duration.
Supportive
Skills
As, I am low in
developing
support among
workers, than it
is essential to
build good
employee
relations in
training and
development
programs by
interacting
them with each
other.
The most
important
resource that
is applicable to
develop
interaction with
each other that
leads workers
to share their
views,
information
and emotions
for develop
understanding
among them.
The supportive
skill of workers
surely results
in achieving
target
efficiently with
the motive to
gain monetary
and non-
monetary
rewards.
5 months
Bridging the
gap
The process of
bridging the
gap result in
analysing the
gap between
current and
future state
that has to be
solved through
developing
innovative idea
for corrective
measures to
The resources
refer as the
identification of
area where the
error is and to
solve it with
creative
thinking skills
that restricts
delay in goal
achievement.
I will start to
discuss with
my leaders for
driving change
in their
leadership
style that affect
workers in
operational
activities to
follow proper
instructions
and avoid such
2 months

restrict errors. problems.
Project Development Plan (PDP):- This refers as the list of actionable steps
for achieving organisational goals and objectives by encouraging itself to accomplish
individual and organisational target. Managers of Hightown implement this as to
identify skills which will lead to move forward for achieving success by gaining skills
that are equivalent to professionalism (Ellinger and Ellinger, 2014).
Development
objectives
Priority Activities
to be
undertaken
Resourc
es
Target
(Start
Date)
Target
(End
Date)
Criteri
a For
Succe
ss
Time
Management
Low 3 months. It refers
as the
ability of
manager
s which
lack in
developin
g
motivatio
n among
its
workers
for
completin
g target
within
particular
time
manage
ment.
01/06/20 31/08/20 The
Human
Resour
ce
Manag
er of
Highto
wn
Housin
g focus
on
develo
ping
effectiv
e goals
by
analysi
ng the
capabili
ty of its
worker
in order

to
achieve
vision
and
mission
on a
specifie
d date.
Training and
development
Moderat
e
1 month This
focus on
developin
g the
skills of
individual
s and
teams for
improving
effectiven
ess to
meet the
demand
of
customer
s.
01/09/20 30/09/20 The HR
manag
er of
Highto
wn
focus
on
improvi
ng
skills
through
training
which
leads
to
achieve
succes
s
efficient
ly.
Supportive
skills
Low 5 months. The
leaders
should be
charismat
ic,
helping,
01/10/20 28/02/21 Leader
s of
Highto
wn are
empha
sized to

etc.,
which
inspires
workers
to give
their high
level of
efforts in
accompli
shing
target at
specified
duration.
develo
p good
relation
among
their
worker
to co-
ordinat
e with
each
other
for
achievi
ng
specific
task.
Analysing gap Low 1 month The main
purpose
of
manager
is to track
business
activities
and
analyse
the
difference
between
expected
and
actual
performa
nce for
identifyin
01/03/21 31/03/21 Manag
er of
Highto
wn
analyse
the gap
by
compar
ing
actual
perform
ance
with
expect
ed plan
while
lacking
in

g delay in
goal
achievem
ent.
accom
plishing
of
succes
s.
Bridging the
gap
Moderat
e
2 month This
refers as
the ability
of
manager
to identify
solutions
for the
problems
raised by
strategic
decision
making
procedur
e to
restrict
errors
through
corrective
measures
.
01/04/21 31/05/21 Manag
ers of
Highto
wn
focus
on this
as to
minimis
e their
risk
with
proper
quality
and
time
manag
ement
to
achieve
succes
s for
compet
ing with
rivalries
to
sustain
in
global