The Institute is a corporate body charged with the general duties of: Determining what standard of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as personnel management practitioners and raising these standards from time to time as circumstances may permit; Securing in accordance with the provisions of the decree, the establishment and maintenance of a register of members and publication from time to time of the list of those person; Regulating and controlling the profession in all its aspects and ramifications; Performing through the Council under the Decree the functions conferred on it by the Decree.

The Institute’s enabling charter provides for three broad categories of membership. These are: individual, Corporate and honourary membership.

Members in the professional grades use the following letters to show their status.

Fellow FCIPM
Full Member MCIPM
Associate ACIPM