Individual Reflection Paper - Strategic Human Resource
Planning
This assignment is intended to stimulate your thinking
about the conceptual and pragmatic aspects of the assigned readings and
discussions, and their implications for your own managing human resources.
There will be one written reflection assignment covering major concepts from
the course plus a final section on lessons learned.
For each of the assigned areas (total of 7 sections)
below, you are to: take the major concept, explain it, reflect on the concept
and then apply that concept to your leadership role and your organization.
Section 1: Strategic Role of HR in the Organization
Section 2: Job Analysis and Safety
Section 3: Staffing Systems
Section 4: Performance Management
Section 5: Training and Talent Management &
Development
Section 6: Compensation
Section 7: The Legal Environment and Diversity &
Inclusion
Last section - Lessons Learned: this discusses final
discussion on your specific learning’s from the text, discussions, readings,
etc. This should be two pages in length.
The paper covers 7 sections plus the lessons learned.
Each section reflection should be one and a half pages in length plus two pages
for lessons learned. The lessons can be around the text, vClasses and threaded
discussions, teaming, personal insights, etc. You are to follow APA style.
Total length of the paper should not exceed 12.5 pages of content.
Your papers should not be simply a paraphrasing of the
assigned readings. Instead, your reflection should be your thoughts and
opinions on the readings, the extent to which they conflict with or corroborate
other reading you have done or experiences you have had, the extent to which
they have some utility for you (e.g., conceptual development, application potential),
and so forth. Based on this, discuss the insights have you developed about
yourself and how you execute your leadership role. You are required to
explicitly reflect on the reading in the context of your own leadership
experiences (present or past job/organization, social clubs, and volunteer
roles), applying this material as appropriate to probe and explain critical
incidents you have experienced, their relationship to your leadership role, and
insights into your personal learnings. The final two pages of the paper should
include what have you learned from the reading topics, debated positions, other
related discussions, vClasses, teaming, threaded discussions, etc.
While you are required to explicitly focus on the
assigned course reading, you are free to draw on other readings -- from other
courses, your job, academic readings – to support the critical reflection on
the application of the concepts. This supplementary support will create a
robust transfer of learning framework to support each chapter and lessons
learned reflection. The assignment is meant to stimulate your thinking of both
the conceptual and pragmatic/applied aspects of the assigned course readings.