As a result, most HR practitioners are not given the required operational room to function and make positive impact.

He also cited activities of some HR practitioners for fuelling the problem and the backwardness as they had failed to assert their professional authority and demand for due recognition within the administrative structure.

“Some HR practitioners are not articulating issues the way they should, whilst others back off quickly. At times too, due to fear of losing one’s jobs, some tend to keep quiet and that practice are not expected of them to ensure growth in their respective organizations," Mr Quarcoopme stated at the opening of a two-day 2018 Continuing Professional Educational Programme in Accra.

The annual training programme according to Mr Quarcoopme, who is also the Resource Person for the training had the goal of whipping up energy and interest in HR practitioners and organisations to put up proper management systems in order for them to benefit from the systems guiding their works.

He said the training was needed and was also fulfilling the mandate of the HR institute to develop HR professionals and the profession, adding that, "Doing this will also be helping organisations to build HR systems that will improve their organisations especially in terms of Performance Management System (PMS)”.    

He said PMS was an improvement tool used by management to help organisations to improve and called for better systems towards the growth of HR practitioners and organisations. Mr Ebenezer Agbettor, the Executive Director of the Institute of Human Resources Management Practitioners, said in order to empower HR practitioners effectively for them to do their work without fear or favour, there was the need for the Centre to have a charter status,  explaining  that the charter status would regulate the profession and weed out the ‘cowboys’ who brought the name of the profession into disrepute.

"If we get the charter status, we will have a legal backing, that is to say, before one can practice, he or she should have a license," he said.  Mr Agbettor mentioned that the Centre, had the mission of advancing HR in Ghana through Professional Certification, where people would be trained to be practitioners.

He said the centre also focuses on continuing Professional Education, a short-term programme for those who needed to upgrade their skills, and offer Consultancy Services where leaders of the Centre would step in to put systems in order. He, therefore, advised HR practitioners to empower themselves, feel confident, and speak to the issues, without fear or favour and urged the Centre to protect its members’ as doing so would instil confidence in members at their works places.

Among the topics treated at the training included; Theoretical underpinning of PMS; Traditional appraisal system which would be compared with PMS; component of PMS (Key results and key performance indicators); Targets; Competencies as well as practical sessions.