Primark: Developing Individuals, Teams, and Organisations Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of human resources management and its impact on organizational development, using Primark as a case study. It begins with an introduction to individual development and its significance in enhancing overall productivity. The main body of the report delves into the essential skills, knowledge, and attributes required by HR professionals, emphasizing the importance of management, technical skills, and leadership. It also includes a personal SWOT analysis and a detailed professional development plan, outlining areas for improvement in technical and leadership skills, along with a reflective statement discussing challenges and achievements. The report concludes by summarizing key findings and emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and development within an organization, with references to relevant sources.

Developing Individuals ,Teams
and Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Skills, knowledge and attributes required by HR professional...................................................1
Professional development plan for personal skill audit..............................................................2
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................4
Reflective Statement...................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Individual development refers to the overall development of the workforce that leads for
increasing overall productivity of organisation. With better development of individual, team and
organisation management enhance skills, capabilities and competencies for all departments to
gain competitive edge in market (Shin and et. al. 2012). The current report is written from
perspective of Primark which is performing their work in clothing industry. Moreover, this report
highlights on skills and attributes required by HR professional. Along with this personal SOW T
analysis and personal development will also be covered in this report. In the last, reflective
statement will also be focused in this report.
MAIN BODY
Skills, knowledge and attributes required by HR professional
Human resources management work as an effective formal system that undertakes
various activities to perform by HR management in order to manage personnel and all other
individuals of organisation. The main motive of HR professional is to reduce employees turnover
for accomplishing organisational goals and objectives in effective manner. Some skills,
capabilities and knowledge required by HR manager are mention as follow:
Knowledge
 Management- This is crucial for HR manager to ensure that all activities that leads
organisation must perform in effective manner. Along with this HR manager is to manage
and implement all principles to gain productive results.
 Technical skill- It is mandatory to work according to existing market conditions. So
technology implement is most important part for organisation which directly enhances
productivity of organisational operations through performing them in minimum time
period (Choi and Ruona, 2011).
Skills
 Leading Skill- With learn and adopt of leadership skills HR and other authority are able
to guide and lead employees for performing there work with more efficiency by
motivating them to complete all task effectively.
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 Work in groups- By performing work in teams HR manager of an organisation leads
employees to gain better results. As it is easy for employees to develop better
coordination that with other departments of organisation.
Behaviour
 Risk taking- HR manager perform an essential role that leads employees to work as a
self-motivated team but it is a risk process because senior employees or workforce are not
motivated to complete there effectively (Goffee and Scase, 2015).
 Problem Solving- With expansion in operations and functions of organisation it is
analysed that company face too many challenges for manage there business. Therefore, it
is mandatory for HR to learn problem solving skill for enhancing performance of
organisation.
Professional development plan for personal skill audit
The role of assistant sales manager plays an important role to ensure better results that
leads company to accomplish their target. With achieving all task it is easy for management to
complete all work by taking guidance of top authorities persons. As the goals and objectives it is
leading organisation to generate more results. Being an official clothing brand offers to manage
work as per sales practices for completing of all task effectively.
Personal skill audit- This work as a process for recording and also analysing skill of the
persons for determining there strength and weakness (Macdonald, Burke and Stewart, 2017). It is
essential for each individual to develop a continuous development process so some points of skill
audit are mention as follow:
Skills Personal Audit Questionnaire 1 2 3 4 5
Management Complete of work in decided time period. *
Manage all task as in organised manner. *
Technical To adopt new learning styles. *
Beneficial to complete task in minimum time. *
Work as per search engine
*
Leading skill To encourage employees for performing work *
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effectively
Provide relevant guidance to individual *
Increase in skill of workforce *
TO work in
group
Useful to engage all persons in work. *
To provide better ideas *
For complete of task in other teams also *
Problem solving To come up with problem of solution *
Deal with all situations *
Risk taking Work with open and positive mind *
To work for achieving opportunity *
Guidance:
1 to 5 skill are rates as per Bad and Good
With the above table my skills are demonstrate to work with audit to perform all work as
per skills and audits as per motive on to scale to leads more strength and weakness. With the
below table SWOT analysis that work as per perform work (Landsberg, 2015).
Strength Weakness
 With manage of time and performing
task as per timely manner.
 Leading and technical skills are good
 Learning skills are not high so it is
complex to adopt new methods of
work.
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so it work as positive to perform
delegate role.
 With management of teams and groups
better results are gained by
management.
 Due to average leadership skill it is
complex for engage more persons in
work.
 With low skills persons face
complexity to understand all work.
Opportunity Threat
 Problem solving skill is implement by
me in all situations. So it work as a
positive point to complete task
properly.
 With the potential of working within
teams various opportunities are
identified to deal with large projects.
 Due to average technical skills it is
difficult for me to work with digital
tools. So it works as a negative point
for me.
 Risk-taking skills generates problems
as they are not implemented in all task.
By overcoming from the weakness there are various points are decided to develop that
leads to formulate right strategy is as follow:
Personal development plan
Area of
development
Date I will
Have this
completed by:
I will achieve
this:
What's
happening
now?
How will I
know I've
been
successful?
Progress
Technical 08-01-2020 to
25-01-2020
For improving
technical skill
utilisation of
proper digital
tools is
observed and
learned.
With observe
of technical
skill it is easy
to gain and
monitor proper
results.
By success of
efforts
organisation
determines
that its
colleagues to
perform work
effectively.
All of my
technical skill
are enhance
that leads me
to complete
work in
employees
performance.
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Leadership 10-02-2020 to
30-02-2020
To improve all
leadership
skill I
analysed to
take guidance
from top
authorities.
By taking
guidance it is
easy to create
better ideas for
deal with
issue.
For
determining
success team
members
perform all
work in
effective
manner. .
This skills
leads me to
offer guidance
for completing
work
effectively.
Reflective Statement
Name Description
Reflect on why you selected that
particular job role
With the post of assistant sales manager
work performance for team and achieving of
target work as positive aspect for career.
Reflect on what is the most challenging
part of job role
The major role related with job is used to
deal with employees conflicts for
performing work effectively.
Reflect on what you have found to be
challenging to achieve based on your
Personal Skills Audit
Major challenges that is found while
personal skill audit is used for enhancement
of technical skills properly.
Reflect on your journey you undertook to
address your developmental needs and
how you resolved them
To become a marketing manager with future
but to get position work is performed for
managing certain skill.
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Reflect on your communication with
your mentor and the challenges you faced
in the process
To improve skills my communicate for
improving mentorship regarding weaknesses
to set right activities of work.
Reflect on the value you have gained
from the beginning of the Semester
With beginning from semester my skills and
capabilities are implemented for particular
formulation of profession development plan.
Reflect on the actions you would take
differently in order to overcome
challenges you faced so far
By found of all difficulties there is
improvement to increase skills which helps
to overcome ideas in better way.
CONCLUSION
In the last, with the above report it is summarised organisation is able to learn and
develop there skills which is used for enhancing individual programmes, development as well as
continuous learning methods. Knowledge, skill and attribute works as an effective perspective
which leads firms to update there work knowledge. Along with this continuous development
program is also formulated by understanding skills audit for organisation.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Choi, M. and Ruona, W. E., 2011. Individual readiness for organizational change and its
implications for human resource and organization development. Human Resource
Development Review. 10(1). pp.46-73.
Shin, S. J. and et. al. 2012. Cognitive team diversity and individual team member creativity: A
cross-level interaction. Academy of Management Journal. 55(1). pp.197-212.
Goffee, R. and Scase, R., 2015. Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals): The Dynamics of
Large and Small Organisations. Routledge.
Macdonald, I., Burke, C. and Stewart, K., 2017. Systems leadership: Creating positive
organisations. Routledge.
Landsberg, M., 2015. The Tao of coaching: Boost your effectiveness at work by inspiring and
developing those around you. Profile Books.
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