Developing Individual, Team, and Organisation: HR at ALDI Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Knowledge, Skills, and Values (KSB) required by HR professionals, focusing on the context of ALDI. It begins by identifying essential KSB for HR roles, including leadership, communication, and ethical behavior. A personal audit is presented to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of employees, along with a professional development plan. The report then differentiates between organizational and individual learning, emphasizing their roles in employee and business growth. It explores the need for continuous learning to drive sustainable business performance and highlights the importance of high-performance work (HPW) in gaining a competitive advantage. The report also examines various approaches to performance management, culminating in a concluding summary of the key findings and recommendations for effective HR practices. This report, contributed by a student, is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

Developing individual, team
and organisations

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
Section 1................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Identification of appropriate KSB required by human resource professional...............................3
P2 Completed personal audit to analyse KSB along with professional development plan.................4
P3 Difference between organisation and individual learning and training.........................................7
P4 Need for continuous learning to drive sustainable business performance.....................................9
Section 2..............................................................................................................................................10
P5 Understanding of HPW contribution in gaining competitive advantage.....................................10
P6 Different approaches to performance management....................................................................11
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Development is an essential factor which have to take in account by an association so
that they become able to sustain at market for long term context. Individuals are refer to all
such personnel whom are working in an organisation and dedicated towards working as well.
Team is consider as a unit in which all people are different from each other but work together
for achieving a common target (Baiden and Price, 2011).
Thus, it is essential to combine all individual together and make a team so that growth
for an entity get ascertain properly. This project is based on ALDI which is one of the finest
retail sector enterprise in UK establishment from Germany. All the associates are working
together with an aim to maximise revenue as well as management ability for sustaining. In
this project various knowledge, skills and values which required by HR professional will get
evaluated. For implementing the sustainable development and growth, management have to
consider all associated factors and elements properly. Moreover, in gaining competitive
advantage high performance is required which support in making things proper.
Section 1
P1 Identification of appropriate KSB required by human resource professional
Knowledge work as key factor which contributes more and more in making an
individual body perfect for many task. A sufficient knowledge helps in saving time which
usually incur on resolving issues which are taking place at workplace. Thus, a personnel
should have to acquire appropriate skills and knowledge from outside world and put it with
its behaviour so that things get done in an appropriate manner which facilitate chances of
more growth and development. An appropriate human resource professional is one who have
ability to deal with every situation and make things correct in an association as well. There
are many skills are analysed by a HR professional whom is capable in dealing with any
uncertainty of business (Bolman and Deal, 2017).
A human resource professional is one who is responsible to recruit high skill
individual in an organisation. Along with this, another major duty which is associated with
this position is to arrange training and development session for such candidates. All these
things are helpful and maximise the chances of ascertaining positive direction. ALDI human
resource professional work is to select such people whom are best in doing their work

properly. This fact will directly support them in gaining more and more profit as well as take
appropriate market share. Following are the key skills of a HR professional which are
identify in ALDI manager:
Leadership and Management skills – Human resource professional is one whom have good
leadership skills and management skills to deal with many things in an appropriate manner.
This enable in making the things correct in nature through which chances of gaining market
share is high and better quality results could maintain. ALDI human resource manager have
to done thing properly so that a proper environment could maintain over at workplace.
Good Communication Skills – Human resource professional have to maintain good
command over on communication skill through which exchange of information from source
to another could done properly. This factor is helpful in facilitating things correct and
chances of conflicts between each other get resolve properly as well.
Along with this, HR professional also have to conduct ethical behaviour towards
association. Ethical behaviour is one under which every person is getting equal rights and
chances of neglecting of norms is low. Moreover, it is a duty of HR to maintain appropriate
behaviour between each and every personnel as well. ALDI managers are making this sort of
things into their stores which is a major reason behind their success and growth (Chaskalson,
2011).
Moreover, human resource manager is one whom have good knowledge about every
sort of things as well whether they are related with business operations or regulations. This
will support them in doing the things in a corrective manner which facilitate proper growth.
By following all legislation properly which are associated with workplace then chances of
misbehaviour become low and everything get executed in an appropriate manner as well.
ALDI managers have good knowledge about all health and safety act as well as equality act.
Moreover, several other regulations followed up by HR manager properly as well through
which proper execution is taking place.
P2 Completed personal audit to analyse KSB along with professional development plan
A personal audit is one under which all the strength and weakness of an individual get
determine. This is helpful in analysing about facts which are related with an individual so that
all weak areas get improved properly and strength will going to support in growth and
development process (Eime and et. al., 2013). This process is consider as useful fact under

which effective things could determine and focus on improving areas get evaluated properly.
It is duty of HR manager to analyse strength and weakness of all individuals so that
appropriate actions could be taken out. ALDI managers have to analyse the skills of every
personnel in order to examine the area where more requirement of improvement is essential.
Thus, business professionals have to determine that what sort of activities really need to get
improved. Personal skill of employees of an association is presented as below:
Skill Very Good Good Adequate Little or no
experience
Communicati
on skills
Drafting
contracts of
employment

Taking notes
of disciplinary
hearing
✔
Write reports 
Produce
materials to
support
presentations

Delivering a
training
session

Resolving
disputes
✔
Interviewing ✔
Advising on
HR issues
✔
Skill Very Good Good Adequate Little or no
Experience
Problem
solving skills

Make good
use of verbal
reasoning
skills, able to
handle
complex data
and make
selective use
of information
✔
Explore more
than one
solution in
order to solve
a problem
Consider the
ideas of others
to help solve
problems
✔
On the basis of this personal audit plan it get analysed that all things are getting done
in right direction through which chances of gaining objective become easy and appropriate as
well. Through this, identification of such stages get analysed which need to get improved and
require more and more focus.

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Planned Activities Objective of Development
Required knowledge/skills
All skills which really need
more and more improvement
have to plan properly and take
classes regularly as well which
support in improving them.
Enhance knowledge and skills
to become more competitive in
nature so that objectives get
ascertain properly as well.
Strengths
Another major strength is get
training by professionals
through which chances of
ascertaining things properly
get enhance along with several
test.
To become more efficient
Weaknesses/gaps
Modification in using of new
technology which create
barrier in learning.
Employee will have to learn
entire skills again.
I have completed the
professional development
activities as described.
I have granted 60 professional growth hours for the
professional development procedure.
Instructor Signature
Date - 30/10/2017
P3 Difference between organisation and individual learning and training
Learning is the main path through individuals can make new information and enhance
themselves. According to Brown and Duguid, authoritative learning is "a scaffold amongst
working and enhancing". It is a procedure of making, holding and exchanging of information
inside an association. Hierarchical improvement dependably requires some serious energy as
it is increased through involvement. It helps organization in managing the interior and outer

issues in a satisfactory way. The best and most regular approach to quantify authoritative
learning is through an expectation to absorb information which demonstrates how an
association is performing all the more an item or an administration with consistent losses.
ALDI managers believe that organisational learning is an only thing through which chances
of making effective operations get done. This factor will also support in long term context
under which chances of maximising profit is high.
Individual learning stated as the way in which management picked up workers by
getting appropriate information from the preparation and advancement of department of
organization. It is vital for the representatives as it helps in their general development and in
work execution in an entity (Ford, 2014).
On the off chance that a worker won't act naturally grew then they won't have the
capacity to perform great and in this way they chose objectives won't be accomplished. ALDI
make the personnel responsible in many situation through which a feeling of self-
performance get inbuilt into them. This factor will support in long term context through
which chances of ascertaining maximum gain could emerged properly. Below is a
differentiation between individual learning and organisational learning:
Organisational Learning Individual Learning
 It is define as a process where wide
number of people come together for
performing a job as well as learn so
many things together.
 Enable employees to learn so many
things by sharing their views and ideas
and also learn how to make a friendly
and healthy relation with each other.
This is another major advantage of
organisational learning.
 Whenever more than two people come
together for a work a new idea get
generated. Business learning is a
process where more different
perspective individual come together
 For improving an individual
perspective this sort of learning is
beneficial.
 It get organised by giving knowledge
through seminars, conferences etc.
Although consider as best thing in
relation to a person skills enhancement.
 For learning many new things to
organise a work, individual learning
work as a beneficial approach in long
term context.
 Individual learning is helpful for each
and every personnel to derive the best
source in doing the things perfectly
without repeating chances of

and identify a new way to perform a
common task.
 This process is helpful in increase
knowledge of people so that chances of
future growth are high in nature. This
factor is supportive to ascertain goals
and targets as a team in a simple
manner.
differentiation.
P4 Need for continuous learning to drive sustainable business performance
Learning never get stopped with the age or in any sort of life. It is a part of life which
take a very important place in personal and professional context. Thus, in order to maximise
the criteria of skills and ability, it is essential to keep learning so that each and every thing get
done in an effective manner. Continues learning play an effective role in an organisational
context as well. Employees are enough able to meet with situations but for making them
strength for any uncertain situation, learning is helpful measure (Hsu and et. al., 2012).
Hence, in an organisational context, management have to support their view points and
provide support learning to such individual whom are weak in nature. This context will
directly made a positive reflection on business in order to gain sustainability.
ALDI is one of the largest retail sector business organisation who really want to
maximise their profit rate as well as gain sustainability in long term context. For this
perspective, their employees and managers have to get aware about one fact which is constant
learning which get done through identifying weak are and maintain focus on that. This factor
is enough to support an association in long term context through which chances of generating
more revenue get enhance as well. Moreover, professional development is another major
concern which play an important part in an organisation context. This process work
effectively through work on skills on the basis of internal audit. Managers of ALDI have to
understand this fact and work effectively on skills of personnel so that they become able to
gain sustainability towards an organisation.
 Managers have to identify such individual whom are less work dedicated and provide
proper training as well so that they are going to work positively instead of firing them

 Managers have to analyse the weak part of an organisation as well through which
chances of maximising profit get enhance
Various suitable modes of learning are seminars, conferences etc. which are helpful in
improving recital of a person. Thus, for gaining sustainable business activity this
Managers have to analyse the benefits of constant learning as well through
which chances of maximising profit get ascertain. Thus, management have to analyse
such elements and start operating in an ethical manner as well:
 Support in growth and enhancing in profit ratio as well. This is one a major
benefit which ALDI can gain through constant learning. Overall development
of a performance could emerged through this process which facilitate
appropriate working.
 Skills get improvise which enable an individual to become more dedicated and
responsible towards working. Along with this productivity get rises because
many skills get improved as well.
All these things have to take in account by an organisation (ALDI) so they become to
generate more and more profit and maintain healthy environment at work place as
well. Moreover, chances of ascertaining targets in less time duration also get identify
because employees become more effective in nature as compared to previous fact.
Section 2
P5 Understanding of HPW contribution in gaining competitive advantage
With help of high work execution practices an employer can easily enhance work
performance of staff members and in addition company. These types of practices held in big
enterprises only. Therefore, they can improve their competencies as well as boost growth of
economic. To increase involvement of workers at premises, in is necessary for manager to
provide them proper working environment (Katzenbach-Marquardt and et. al., 2011).
Thus, they can do their work effectively and will attain organisational goals and
objectives within provided period of time.
Apart from this, competitive benefits can be appropriate at premises because of many
reasons. This can be in two form i.e. Monetary as well as non-monetary. So that, company
will create products at reasonable prices and accomplish demands of their customer’s arms

per their requirements. As a result, firm can enhance their sales and take benefits from their
competitors. This will aid them to improve their revenues and reputation at marketplace.
With assistance of high work execution practices, manager of Whirlpool can create
their business strategy as well as policies more effective. To improve involvement of staff
members, employer can develop some activities. As a result, productivity of association will
improve. Along with this, workers will able to compete with external environment and grab
opportunities. This will aid them to take competitive advantages at marketplace (McCleskey,
2014).
ALDI can use high performance working employees in an association by
providing them appropriate training through which they become able to ascertain all goals
and targets in an appropriate manner. This factor is helpful in long term context of an
association through which they become able to make better and effective outcome.
P6 Different approaches to performance management
Every individual is distinct from each other as well as their ability to perform task
also get vary from a person to person. It is essential to measure every person performance
with a course of time through which chances of gaining proper results get enhance.
Organisational managers have to consult with various performance management consent
through which deviations in activity get identify from the side of a person. Along with this,
on the basis of performance proper feedback would be gain which further aid in improving
them as well:. AALDI is using variety of techniques through which they are gaining
appropriate outcome about every consent operation through which high performance culture
and commitment would be gain:
Comparative Approach: On the basis of this technique, major comparison between two or
more individual get done during a single period of time. It enable an association to improve
chances of negative outcome and enhance productivity as well (Rock, 2014). ALDI is
defining their tool in such a manner under which variety of categories are divided. Every
employee performance determine at the last of every three month and such individual whom
gain lower rank get training and development session.

(Figure 1: Approaches of Performance management, 2017)
(Sources: Approaches of Performance management, 2017)
Quality Approach: - A major thing which is associated with business is quality of working
and activity. Managers have to use suitable technique which help in improving quality of
performance by every respondent and work in an ethical manner as well. Chances of
ascertaining objectives is usually high as compared to other tool. ALDI using this technique
in relation to maximising the performance context of each and every performance so that
appropriate quality standard culture could managed.
Attribute Approach: - This approach set an attribute under which various dimensions get
identify which support in providing rank and analyse performance of a person. This is helpful
in evaluating a person ability for performing task so that corrective activity will be going to
give to such person. This concept is helpful in long term context of development of an
association. ALDI can apply this tool in business under which managers and personnel are
divided on the basis of problem solving skill, decision making skill etc.
Result Approach: - This approach provide result on the basis of a person working pattern.
Organisation give target to every personnel whom have to get attain by a person so that they
enable in maximising their working criteria. For this perspective balance score card is a
beneficial tool. ALDI have to provide rank to every person according to their ability to do
task and then provide appropriate numbering to them as well.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned report it has been comprehended that improvements are must
for each and every sort of company. It assumes a prominent role in accomplishing both type

of objectives and targets i.e. Organisational and personal. Staff members have to improve
their abilities and skills; therefore, they can provide best services in firm effectively and
efficiently. In this assignment, there is a description regarding knowledge and skills which
need to be possessed by human resource manager. Along with this, personal as well as
professional development plan is discussed to examine self-capabilities. It is fundamental for
an employer to conduct organisational learning; thus, employee can improve their ability and
in addition learn something new which will be advantageous for them. To enhance individual
learning, some programmes related to individual learning need to be run.

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