KEY ISSUES FOR THE GR PROFESSION TO TACKLE
Submitted by christian on Sun, 03/20/2016 - 15:13
BARRIERS
- Lack of understanding of the GR practice
- Difficulties to prove the real impact of GR activities
- Skills required to work in GR remain a work in progress
- No barrier to entry, no formal qualifications or Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Lack of rigor means that it is not possible to benchmark the skills of one GR Practitioner against another, or one GR consultancy or GR in-house position against another
- No benchmark, lack of formal accreditation or training system for GR Professionals
- Training needs are difficult to identify and address and shortage of up-to-date GR training and education
- No definition of what GR Practitioners need to perform their activities effectively and hence no knowledge to know if they’re qualified
- No competency framework has been developed as an effective method to assess, maintain, monitor and measure the knowledge, sills, and attributes of GR Practitioners
- Experience more highly valued than qualifications in GR
- Although there is a drive towards professionalism, it remains inconsistent and the responsibility to professionalise GR within countries is spread across professional bodies, universities and private education institutes, with little coordination.
- Status of GR associations and professional bodies
- Ethics is more than Codes of Conduct that prescribe a set of inflexible rules
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