DATE: 18th October 2012
1.0 Introduction
This report has been produced for a new HR practitioner entering into Companies House. This report it outlines The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) HR Profession Map and how this feeds into timely and effective service delivery from professional HR practitioners. The HR Profession Map (HRPM) developed by CIPD is a useful wide-ranging visionary tool of how HR can add value to the organisation it operates in. The map covers skills, behaviours and knowledge that HR people require in order to become a successful HR professional. It also helps to identify areas that people may need to be developed. The map provides support to individuals as they recognise development needs for their career progression which in turn helps the practitioner acquire the knowledge, skills and behaviours to deliver timely and effective HR services to its customers. The information for this report has been collected from the CIPD website and the HR map.
1.1 Findings The HR Profession Map holds two professional core areas that cover insights, strategy and solutions as well as Leading HR. Insights, Strategy and Solutions is where the professional fosters legitimate insights and solutions, which aid understanding in the business and how it works (or should work), and allows well-defined strategies to be developed and implemented in order to improve things. Leading HR is where a prominent HR professional has active, insight-led leadership; they own, shape and drive themselves, others and activity within the business. Some professionals may not have a role where they lead others but it is still important that they develop and grow in the other two dimensions. The map also shows eight other professional areas of service delivery and information, organisation design, organisation development, resourcing and talent planning, learning and talent development,