Our Professional Standards
Contents
Introduction 2
The CIPD Profession Map
4–7
The design principles and architecture of the Profession Map
4
Bands and transitions
6
Professional areas
8–46
Professional area definitions
9
1 Insights, strategy and solutions
10
2 Leading HR
14
3 Organisation design
17
4 Organisation development
20
5 Resourcing and talent planning
23
6 Learning and development
26
7 Performance and reward
30
8 Employee engagement
33
9 Employee relations
36
39
10 Service delivery and information
Behaviours 42–51
The Profession Map behaviours
43
Curious
44
Decisive thinker
45
Skilled influencer
46
Personally credible
47
Collaborative
48
Driven to deliver
49
Courage to challenge
50
Role model
51
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Profession Map – Our Professional Standards V2.4
Introduction
The CIPD Profession Map sets out standards for HR professionals around the world: the activities, knowledge and behaviours needed for success.
Use the standards in the CIPD Profession Map for you and your organisation to:
• define great HR
• diagnose areas of success and improvement
• build HR capability
• recognise achievement through professional qualifications and membership.
By the profession, for the profession
Based on research and collaboration with organisations around the world, and continuously reviewed and updated with our research, essentially the CIPD Profession Map shares what the most successful HR professionals know and do at every stage of their career, which is proving to be a powerful tool. A wide range of organisations and HR professionals are now using the CIPD’s Profession Map to benchmark and build their
HR capability at individual, team, function and organisation levels.
Who is it for?
Since its launch in 2009, a wide range of organisations have adopted the CIPD Profession Map standards to
define