Developing Yourself as an effective HR Practitioner

Introduction The intention of this report is to address the following learning outcomes:- †¢ to understand the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be an effective HR practitioner; †¢ know how to deliver timely and effective HR services to meet users needs and; †¢ be able to reflect on my own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development. For the purpose of this report I will use research journals, books and internet searches, in particular, help and guidance from the CIPD website in order to reflect on my own personal experience and skills to constructively align with the assessment criteria. Career in brief Throughout my career I have had a diverse range of roles including the†¦show more content†¦It was important to create a vision statement at the outset to assist with future planning and where we wanted to the see the business in the future. Creating the vision statement impacted immediately upon my role as Owner/Director as I had invested my own money to fulfil the ambitions I had of building the business. The core: Leading HR This are relates to HR professionals being active, insight-led leaders: owning, shaping and driving themselves, others and activity within their organisation, not just observing or facilitating. The model suggests that an HR specialist leading HR services acts as a role model to help develop their teams goals The model also suggests that they know how to engage people with different backgrounds by utilising their experience and skills and by developing their team s knowledge of the operational plan of the organisation and helping their team to drive forward whilst supporting and mentoring other HR team members. Table 2 shows how I am able to demonstrate my knowledge and understanding of this core area. Table 2 Personal knowledge and competency relating to leading HR Personal leadership 2.1.2 Seek feedback and coaching to continually learn and develop as a professional. Use HR processes as appropriate for own CPD (e.g. through My HR Map) As Managing Director of my own retail business it was essential that I had proven skills to continue my own professional development. I therefore sourced various courses whichShow MoreRelatedDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1426 Words   |  6 PagesDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Human Resource Practitioner The CIPD Human Resources Profession Map The CIPD is the professional body for those working within a HR related role, to â€Å"manage the employer-employee relationship and align an organisation’s culture with its people† (CIPD). Researched through collaboration with business leaders the CIPD has developed a map of the activities, knowledge and behaviours required by the different HR roles to meet current business needs (diagram 1)Read Moredeveloping yourself as an effective hr practitioner1589 Words   |  7 Pagesï » ¿Developing Yourself As An Effective HR Practitioner Activity 1 I am doing this HR course to further my career at work. I am supervisor. I am involved in HR in my job, as we do not have an HR department. I work with my Manager at present to help conduct annual appraisals, disciplinary procedures and inductions. I have also been involved with redundancies. We are a medium sized company, which has expanded since I joined in 2000 but as we are growing we feel the need to have 1 personRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1723 Words   |  7 Pagesten professional areas. The architecture of the professional map is structured as follows: †¢ Professional areas - describes what needs to be done and what you need to know for each area of the HR profession at four bands of professional competence. †¢ Behaviours – Describes the behaviours and HR professional needs to carry out specific activities. Each behaviour is described across four bands of professional competence. †¢ Bands and Transitions – Describes the four bands of professionalRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1517 Words   |  7 Pagesteam we look to alternative solutions such as temporary agency staff or re-distribution of workload amongst the HR team during busy periods of recruitment within larger regions. I also use KPIs to monitor the speed of applicant turnaround and this information is communicated to the senior management team who relay this to the wider organisation in the regional meetings. Effective Communication Method of communication Advantage Disadvantage Team meeting (Verbal) †¢ Opportunity for openRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as Effective Hr Practitioner1760 Words   |  8 PagesIntroduction: The purpose of this report is to outline the responsibilities of a H.R practioner and users of the service. It explains the different communication methods used whilst providing effective service delivery. Task 1.1 Explain the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be effective in an identified HR role. Refer to the HRPM, and include a summary of the HRPM (including the 2 core professional areas) and an explanation of the activities and knowledge, at either band 1 or 2, of any oneRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner (4dep)1617 Words   |  7 PagesActivity 1 The Human Resources Profession Map: The CIPD HRPM is a developmental tool that sets out activities, behaviours and guidelines to become a successful HR Professional. 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It describes the knowledge and activities as well as the behaviours thatRead More4dep (Hr)-Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner2271 Words   |  10 Pages* Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner * Date | | Name | | Unit Number | 4DEP (HR) | Level | Foundation | Total Number of Words | 1535*(+ or -10% or 150 words)(Excluding References, Endnotes and Bibliography) | Statement | I confirm that the work I have submitted for Unit 4DEP (HR) Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner is my own. | | Signature: | | Date: | | | | | Print Name: | | | | Tutor | Signature:Read MoreEssay on Cipd Developing Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner612 Words   |  3 PagesUnderstanding customer needs As an HR practitioner it is important to indentify the needs of customers and prioritise the needs of each. Three examples of different customer and a need for each: 1. An employee enquiring about their holiday entitlement for the next holiday year 2. Payroll department require new employee details the day before the cut off period 3. Manager who requires the sickness absence report for an employee who has triggered a disciplinary hearing scheduled forRead MoreDeveloping yourself as an effective HR OR l D Practitioner1911 Words   |  8 Pages– This area of the map concentrates on developing an understanding and prioritising the direction of the organisation. Leading HR – Shaping and driving themselves and other employees to deliver a valued service to the organisation. The Professional Areas are made up of Organisation Design – This area of the map concentrates on shaping the organisation structure to the business needs. Organisation Development – This area of the map concentrates on developing skills and training of all employees to developing yourself as an effective hr practitioner Developing Yourself As An Effective HR Practitioner Activity 1 I am doing this HR course to further my career at work. I am supervisor. I am involved in HR in my job, as we do not have an HR department. I work with my Manager at present to help conduct annual appraisals, disciplinary procedures and inductions. I have also been involved with redundancies. We are a medium sized company, which has expanded since I joined in 2000 but as we are growing we feel the need to have 1 person to take on the HR role so that all staff have someone official that they can go to with any problems that they may have. HRPM: this is an easy to use table containing behaviours, professional areas and bands of competence. It allows users†¦show more content†¦This can be an issue for both the engineers and shop floor staff as the engineers quote the times for each job but they are not always accurate so this means that the shop floor staff may appear to not build cables in the allocated time. New Employees: I will be conducting all inductions for new Employees - This includes a walk around the factory introducing them to key members of staff such as our other supervisor, first aid, fire marshals and the other members of staff who they will be working closest with. I will also show them the fire exits, evacuation points and show them the fireboard with everybody’s names on. I will tell them when the fire alarm is tested and register them on out hand scanner, which clocks everyone in and out of the building and is also used for payroll. I will show them where the toilets are and what times their breaks and lunch breaks are. New Employees have to read our health and safety handbook thoroughly. Conflicting Needs: I prioritise these by consulting with my manager and shop floor staff so that I am able to decide what to deal with first. For example, I would deal with a conflict between two or more employees by speaking to them separately away from their normal work environment and if appropriate, I would get them together to talk about the problem. This would take priority over an appraisalShow MoreRelatedDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1426 Words   |  6 PagesDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Human Resource Practitioner The CIPD Human Resources Profession Map The CIPD is the professional body for those working within a HR related role, to â€Å"manage the employer-employee relationship and align an organisation’s culture with its people† (CIPD). Researched through collaboration with business leaders the CIPD has developed a map of the activities, knowledge and behaviours required by the different HR roles to meet current business needs (diagram 1)Read MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1723 Words   |  7 Pagesten professional areas. The architecture of the professional map is structured as follows: †¢ Professional areas - describes what needs to be done and what you need to know for each area of the HR profession at four bands of professional competence. †¢ Behaviours – Describes the behaviours and HR professional needs to carry out specific activities. Each behaviour is described across four bands of professional competence. †¢ Bands and Transitions – Describes the four bands of professionalRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner1517 Words   |  7 Pagesteam we look to alternative solutions such as temporary agency staff or re-distribution of workload amongst the HR team during busy periods of recruitment within larger regions. I also use KPIs to monitor the speed of applicant turnaround and this information is communicated to the senior management team who relay this to the wider organisation in the regional meetings. Effective Communication Method of communication Advantage Disadvantage Team meeting (Verbal) †¢ Opportunity for openRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an effective HR Practitioner2909 Words   |  12 PagesIntroduction The intention of this report is to address the following learning outcomes:- †¢ to understand the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be an effective HR practitioner; †¢ know how to deliver timely and effective HR services to meet users needs and; †¢ be able to reflect on my own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development. For the purpose of this report I will use research journals, books and internet searches, in particular, help andRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as Effective Hr Practitioner1760 Words   |  8 PagesIntroduction: The purpose of this report is to outline the responsibilities of a H.R practioner and users of the service. It explains the different communication methods used whilst providing effective service delivery. Task 1.1 Explain the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be effective in an identified HR role. Refer to the HRPM, and include a summary of the HRPM (including the 2 core professional areas) and an explanation of the activities and knowledge, at either band 1 or 2, of any oneRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner (4dep)1617 Words   |  7 PagesActivity 1 The Human Resources Profession Map: The CIPD HRPM is a developmental tool that sets out activities, behaviours and guidelines to become a successful HR Professional. Without a Human Resources team, many companies would fall apart. By HR professionals following the guidelines set by the profession map, this would assure that any organisation would be sustainable and successful. The Core Professional Areas: There are two 2 Core Professional Areas †¢ Insight, Strategies and SolutionsRead MoreDeveloping Yourself as an Effective HR/LD Practitioner2194 Words   |  9 Pagesï » ¿ HR ASSIGNMENT Table of Contents Developing Yourself as an Effective HR/LD Practitioner Activity A The HR Professional Map It is the map that directs the HR Professionals at each level (generalist or specialist) to figure out what they need to do so as to deliver correct output at whichever stage of the career they are working at. The map is a threshold set for the individuals exhibiting HR excellence. It describes the knowledge and activities as well as the behaviours thatRead More4dep (Hr)-Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner2271 Words   |  10 Pages* Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner * Date | | Name | | Unit Number | 4DEP (HR) | Level | Foundation | Total Number of Words | 1535*(+ or -10% or 150 words)(Excluding References, Endnotes and Bibliography) | Statement | I confirm that the work I have submitted for Unit 4DEP (HR) Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources Practitioner is my own. | | Signature: | | Date: | | | | | Print Name: | | | | Tutor | Signature:Read MoreEssay on Cipd Developing Yourself as an Effective Hr Practitioner612 Words   |  3 PagesUnderstanding customer needs As an HR practitioner it is important to indentify the needs of customers and prioritise the needs of each. Three examples of different customer and a need for each: 1. An employee enquiring about their holiday entitlement for the next holiday year 2. Payroll department require new employee details the day before the cut off period 3. Manager who requires the sickness absence report for an employee who has triggered a disciplinary hearing scheduled forRead MoreDeveloping yourself as an effective HR OR l D Practitioner1911 Words   |  8 Pages– This area of the map concentrates on developing an understanding and prioritising the direction of the organisation. Leading HR – Shaping and driving themselves and other employees to deliver a valued service to the organisation. The Professional Areas are made up of Organisation Design – This area of the map concentrates on shaping the organisation structure to the business needs. Organisation Development – This area of the map concentrates on developing skills and training of all employees to