This report is a brief summary of the CIPD Profession Map, the two core professional areas, the specialist areas, the bands and the behaviours. It will be going into more detail in the activities and knowledge specified within the professional area of Performance and Rewards at band 1 level. It will identify the activities and knowledge most essential to my own HR role.
The CIPD Profession Map
(CIPD, 2013)
The professional map is a universal platform for HR professionals, which describes what you need to do, what you need to know and how to do it. It is designed by professionals for professionals.
The 10 Professional Areas
There are two core professional areas; Insights, Strategy and Solutions and Leading HR, these sit at the centre of the profession and are relevant to all HR professionals in all roles, locations and at all stages of the HR career. These two areas support the direction of the profession as a business discipline.
Insights, Strategy and Solutions – Developing an understanding of an organisation and its back-ground in order to style its strategy and solutions and to meet its needs for now and in the future, by reading relevant information and articles to build and broaden an understanding of new initiatives and practices across areas of HR.
Leading HR – Act as a role-model to expand the influence HR makes to the organisation both through its own efforts and through supporting, developing and measuring others across the organisation. This can be done by providing advice confidentially based on a sound understanding of the organisations policy and practice.
(CIPD, The CIPD Profession Map, pp. 10, 14)
The remaining eight professional areas are:
Organisational Design – To ensure the organisation is suitably planned to deliver maximum impact in the short and long term.
Organisational Development – Identify organisational and individual capability requirements and support all processes to enhance effectiveness and achieve
Bibliography: CIPD. (2013). www.cipd.co.uk. CIPD. (n.d.). The CIPD Profession Map.