The Cipd Profession Map 2015

The CIPD Profession Map
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