Answer To: ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET QUALIFICATION: BSB80615 Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning)/ BSB80215...
Ram Mohan answered on May 18 2020
ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET
QUALIFICATION: BSB80615 Graduate Diploma of Management (Learning)/
BSB80215 Graduate Diploma of Strategic Leadership
UNIT CODE AND UNIT NAME: BSBLED808 Conduct a career development session
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Assessment 1
KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS
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Assessment 2
PLAN A GROUP COACHING SESSION
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Assessment 3
CONDUCT A CAREER DEVELOPMENT SESSION FOR AN INDIVIDUAL
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Assessment 1: Knowledge Questions
YOUR TASK:
This assessment has THREE parts. Refer to the relevant learner guide and supplementary readings and answer the questions below.
WORD LIMIT:
Unless otherwise specified, please limit your answer to a maximum of 100 words per question.
PART A: Career development theories and models
1. Explain the ‘Theory of Work Adjustment’ in your own words.
The Theory of Work Adjustment describes how workers seek to actualize satisfaction and fulfillment in their work environments by gradually adjusting to the needs and demands of the workplace. In other words, workers tend to adapt and adopt to their work environment over a period of time. This can be seen in the way most middle aged workers tend to continue in their occupations despite occasional setbacks and frustrations at the workplace that they shrug off as occupational hazards. Further, this is also observed in workers who tend to form an emotional bond with their employers and achieve what is known as correspondence.
2. Explain what you understand by the acronym RIASEC.
The Acronym RIASEC stands for Holland’s Six Personality Types where R – Realistic, I- Investigative, A – Artistic, S- Social, E –Enterprising, C – Conventional, are the categories or types of personality. The RIASEC code indicates the likelihood of each personality type choosing the appropriate occupation according to the “congruence” between them. In other words, the RIASEC describes the occupations that all workers and professionals would fit in to based on their personalities. Further, it also indicates the fit that can be achieved by choosing occupations based on personality rather than random choices that are likely to result in poor job satisfaction.
3. According to Super’s Self Concept Theory, does ‘self-concept’ remain static throughout your life or does it change? Explain Super’s theory of ‘life stages’ and development tasks in detail
According to Super’s Self Concept Theory, self concept tends to change from early childhood and continuing through a worker’s career until his or her retirement. Thus, according to the changing self concept based on learning and environmental factors, the concomitant work and vocational occupations are chosen based on the former. In other words, as individual progresses through life, they tend to have a stable and realistic self concept that allows them to choose occupations accordingly. The life stages or development tasks begin with the Birth to Teens, Exploration stage (teens through 20s), Establishment (mid 20s to 40s), Maintenance (40s to 60s), and Decline (late 60s to retirement).
4. What are the implications of Super’s theory for career counselling?
Super’s Theory provides career counselors with a clear map of how to guide professionals through the various stages in their careers. First, it lets career counselors set goals to professionals based on the developmental stage. Next, career counselors can encourage students to clarify their self concepts as this would enhance vocational maturity. This in turn, leads to better occupational information from the knowledge thus obtained. Third, Super’s theory allows students a diverse set of career choices based on their self concept which is advantageous since career choices narrow over time. Lastly, it ensures that there is alignment between the counselor’s recommendations and real world work roles.
5. Do you agree with Krumboltz ‘Theory of Planned Happenstance’? Why or why not? Give examples from your own life experiences to respond to explain the reasons for your answer.
I fully agree with the Theory of Planned Happenstance in the sense that it advocates no fixed notions of career choices and career development. Instead, it proposes that career counselors expose professionals to a wide variety of career choices and options and lets them choose according to their personalities and abilities. I have observed during my career that what I wanted to be and what I was eventually have been shaped by the changing external circumstances and internal factors such as my inclination towards a particular career as opposed to planning everything in advance. Indeed, the fast changing nature and role of work in the 21st century calls for flexibility in career choices according to the exigencies of the situation.
6. Refer to Bandura’s ‘Social Cognitive Theory’ and answer the following questions:
a. What is ‘self- efficacy’?
Self Efficacy refers to the belief in one’s capabilities to actualize a course of action that is consonant with one’s abilities in order to achieve the desired outcomes.
b. How does self-efficacy affect a person’s ability to function in a workplace?
Self Efficacy ensures that individuals are motivated, believe that they have power and control over their lives, have a realistic opinion of tasks that need to be done, and above all, have thought patterns and feelings which reflect their self belief. In the workplace, professionals with high self efficacy are known to outperform those that are lower in their self belief since the former tend to motivate them better as well as take up tasks without being put off by the perceived difficulty of actualizing the outcomes. Moreover, they tend to believe in self...