Strategic Role of HR Professionals in Organizational Success

Activity 1: Knowledge, skill and behaviour required to be an effective HR

The human resource professionals are responsible for the organisations tasks where the HR professionals are trying to develop effective strategic planning of hiring, training, performance management, team building, rewards and loyalty programs, compensations and benefits where they provide proper organisational culture to retain the employees in long run. It is necessary for the HR professionals to have proper skill and knowledge as well as own behaviour, so that it is possible to manage the workplace of the organisation by managing the employees in the organisation (Noe et al., 2017). Hereby, the HR professionals play a crucial role in the organisation to manage the employees, who are the major stakeholders to run the organisation sustainably. In this regard, as per the CIPD model of HR, it is necessary for the HR professionals to have the skill of developing employee’s relationship and improve engagement with all the employees. In this regard, positive behaviour, politeness and interactive skill of the HR professionals are required to manage the employees and build strong relationship with all the employees in the organisation.

The HR professionals also need to have proper communication skill to interact with others at the workplace positively where the professionals can lead the employees by developing an effective team, and thus the HR professionals are also responsible to develop partnership working practice and maintain organisational harmony and develop suitable organisational culture at the workplace (Bratton and Gold, 2017). In addition to these, the HR professionals needs to have proper knowledge about the service and information to share with the employees as well as develop proper training and development program as per the organisational working activities, so that the staff member can develop their skill and knowledge in long run. Hereby, the HR professionals are also accountable for enhancing employee’s relationship and give them the chance to have personal and professional’s development.

Moreover, apart from developing training and development program, the HR professionals are also responsible for resourcing and talent management where they try to develop group discussion and general meeting where the staff and senior management team can share their experience with each other for talent management and skill enhancement. Hereby, the HR professionals are accountable for enhancing the organisational performance in long run and it provides an opportunity to the organisation to manage the employees and lead them in future. The HR professionals in this regard needs to maintain positive behaviour and improve engagement with all the staff by enhancing trust and loyalty in the organisation. In this context, respecting each of the employees at the workplace as well as designing the structure and organisational planning for presenting better workplace and get proper insights are beneficial and these skill and knowledge of the professionals are beneficial for the organisation to develop suitable organisational culture, where the employees can work with managing harmony and freedom at the workplace. In addition to this, the HR professionals are also liable for managing the performance and rewards and in this regard, the performance and reward design depends on the HR professionals where the professionals try to provide monetary and non-monetary rewards to the employees for encouraging them and leading them in long run.

In this context, the performance related pay, yearly bonus and compensations are effective to create values for the employees and it further helps the employees to become interested for contributing with their full potential in long run to enhance the organisational performances a whole. Additionally, the non-monetary rewards are also designed by the HR professionals where, developing suitable organisational culture with harmony, freedom to choose the working hours, encouraging the employee’s creativity, helping the employees to develop effective team as well as respect each of the staff and manage transparency and accountability are other skill though which the HR professionals are trying to create values for the employees and lead them towards achieving success (Bailey, 2015). In this regard, the professional’s areas and behaviour of the HR professionals are such as driven to deliver, collaborative, communicative, personally credible, skilled influencer, decisive thinker, curious and courage to challenge and these are effective for the HR professionals to manage the employees at the workplace and motivate them to perform better with their full potential.

Activity 2: Delivering timely and effective HR services

There are different needs for HR services in the organisation and it is the role of the HR professionals to manage the conflicting needs of the HR services (Krausert, 2017). In this regard, for example, one employee needs leave on a urgent basis and the second employee require the salary within the 5th day of the month and third employee needs safe place in the organisation to work with security. In this regard there are conflicting needs and it is the responsibility of the HR professionals to manage those three needs of different employees. For prioritising the needs of the employees for the HR services, the HR professionals try to prioritise the needs on an urgent basis, and it is urgent for the first employee to get urgent leave for personal reason. With proper communication with the team leader and the HR manager, it is possible for the HR professionals to approve the leave of the employee. After that, managing employee’s safety and security is the responsibility of the HR professionals and it is necessary for the HR to manage the safety and security at the workplace.

With proper planning and discussion with the senior management team, the HR professionals can resolve the issue of unhygienic place and lack of safety and security, where the activities of implementing CCTV camera under the coverage areas of the employees, implementation of fire extinguisher and emergency exits and managing hygiene at the floor are effective or the HR to manage the need of the third employee. Though it is a lengthy process of implementing the safety requirement, the HR professionals aim to manage these needs on an urgent basis to create values for the employees at the workplace. Additionally, the needs of the second employee are also valid and it is necessary to credit the salary of the employees as soon as possible in each month. With proper discussion, the HR professionals can manage the credit of the salary on the 1st or 2nd day of each month where the HR professionals are responsible to create the salary slip and maintain the account of the employees properly on the very first day of each month so that the management team can credit the salary within 2nd or 3rd day of the month. Hereby, through prioritising the needs of different employees, the HR professionals can handle the task and maintain harmony at the workplace.

Additionally, it is necessary for the HR professionals to communicate with all the employees at the workplace for improving engagement with them and building strong relationship so that it is possible to lead the staff successfully in future. In this regard, the strategies of face to face conversation, telephonic conversation and sending email are the major communication ways through which the HR professionals try to interact with the employees (Leopold, 2016). Face to face communication is the most effective way to interact with the employees and understand their feelings and thoughts successfully, but there is one disadvantage of face to face conversation where some employees cannot be interactive and expressive and fir them it becomes difficult for the HR professionals to understand their perspectives. Secondly, telephonic conversation is also effective, where the HR professionals try to communicate with the employees over telephone to share the urgent messages or any information directly to the employees (Giessner, Horton and Humborstad, 2016). Thirdly, sending email to the employees is also another effective way to interact and communicate with the employees at the workplace where it is formal communication way to convey the message to the employees, where the HR professionals try to share the urgent information and organisational practice and change with the employees at the workplace. Hereby, different ways of communication are effective for the HR professionals to interact with the employees and manage them successfully at the workplace (Heitzler et al., 2018).

It is necessary to handle the HR services at the workplace and being good HR professionals, it is the responsibility of the HR to manage the employees successfully by delivering proper HR services so that their values can be enhanced at the workplace. In this regard, for delivering effective service delivery, the HR professionals try to arrange group meeting where sharing the organisational and change management process in rules or the organisation practice are effective or the employees to understand the perspectives of the management team and this in turn helps to resolve the internal conflicts and resistance to change at the workplace (Scott, 2016). Additionally, the HR professionals try to arrange their task by prioritising the job where it is possible for them to deliver the HR services to the services user on time. For example, managing safety and security of the employees providing performance appraisal and managing the employees with respect and integrity are effective services that are useful for delivering the HR services to the employees on time.

Activity 3: personal and professionals development plan

Continuing the professional development is the assessment for understanding own strengths and weaknesses as well as develop further planning for enhancing own skill and knowledge to perform better and achieve the future career goal. In this regard, as per personal capabilities, I am able to provide effective customer’s service where I try to hear the customer’s perception and acknowledge their actual need and preferences so that it is possible to maximise their satisfaction. Additionally, the technical skill and interpersonal skill are effective to enhance my capabilities to develop string corporate relationship with the customers and service them with better services according to their requirements. On the other hand, I need to develop my communication skill, knowledge to enhance international training practices, improve collaboration and creative thinking skill to manage the workforce in the organisation and deliver quality services to the customers. I have the options of gathering more knowledge and skill by attaining the organisational training as well as utilise the organisational resources to fulfil the identified needs.

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