KEY ISSUES FOR THE GR PROFESSION TO TACKLE

BARRIERS

  1. Lack of understanding of the GR practice
  2. Difficulties to prove the real impact of GR activities
  3. Skills required to work in GR remain a work in progress
  4. No barrier to entry, no formal qualifications or Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
  5. 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
  6. No benchmark, lack of formal accreditation or training system for GR Professionals
  7. Training needs are difficult to identify and address and shortage of up-to-date GR training and education
  8. No definition of what GR Practitioners need to perform their activities effectively and hence no knowledge to know if they’re qualified
  9. No competency framework has been developed as an effective method to assess, maintain, monitor and measure the  knowledge, sills, and attributes of GR Practitioners
  10. Experience more highly valued than qualifications in GR
  11. 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. 
  12. Status of GR associations and professional bodies
  13. Ethics is more than Codes of Conduct that prescribe a set of inflexible rules

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