Task-1 (LO 1)
You need to create a development portfolio which shows your ‘own’ learning progress and acquisition of key skills. The portfolio should include evidence for the planning and monitoring of progress towards the achievement of personal and professional objectives.
Your portfolio should contain the following:
·You need to determine appropriate and professional knowledge, skills and behaviours that are required by HR professionals,based on a range of different roles within an organisation.
·Prepare personal SWOT analysis and personal development plan based on the SWOT analysis for a one of the job roles.Analyse a completed personal skills audit to identify appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours and develop a professional development plan for a given job role.
·Besides, provide a detailed professional skills audit and professional development plan that demonstrates evidence of personal reflection and evaluation.
Task-2 (LO 2,3,4)
You are recruited as an external Learning and Development Consultant by a large global organisation [an organisation of your choice]. The Director of Human Resources of this organisation requires you to produce an individual report which must address the following question:
‘To what extent does the organisation effectively utilise learning and development to support individuals and teams to help it to operate high-performance working (HPW) in a high-performance culture?’
You are required to demonstrate the use of critical thinking to support a conclusion that justifies your arguments. The report should cover the following:
·An introduction to the organisation.
·You need to analyse the differences between organisational and individual learning, training and development.
·You should also analyse the need for continuous learning and professional development to drive sustainable business performance.
·Besides, you can apply learning cycle theories to critically analyse the importance of implementing continuous professional development.
·Produce a detailed and coherent professionaldevelopment plan that appropriately sets out learning goals and training in relation to the learning cycle to achieve sustainable business performance objectives and produce a detailed and coherent professionaldevelopment plan that appropriately sets out learning goals and training in relation to the learning cycle to achieve sustainable business performance objectives.
·You need to demonstrate understanding of how HPW contributes toemployee engagementand competitive advantage within a specific organisational situation. You can also analyse the benefits of applying HPW with justifications to a specific organisational situation.
·You need to evaluate different approaches to performance management (e.g.collaborative working) and demonstrate with specific examples how they can support high- performance culture and commitment. You need to also critically evaluate different approaches to performance management (e.g. collaborative working) and demonstrate with specific examples how they can support high- performance culture and commitment. Besides, you can provide valid synthesis of knowledge and information resulting in appropriate judgements on how HPW and mechanisms used to support HPW lead to improved employee engagement, commitment and competitive advantage.
Assignment Guidelines
Submit a soft copy to Turnitin on the submission date. Use Normal script of a proper font size 12.
Attach the front sheet of this assignment brief to your work for assignment submission with signatures on the statement of authenticity.
Assignments submitted after the deadline will not be accepted unless Extenuating Circumstances Form is submitted with third party evidence.
Collusion and Plagiarism must be avoided. (For further details please refer to Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure; Plagiarism Handbook, all available on Moodle)
Start each answer on a new page and pages should be numbered. Highlight each question clearly. Include a Bibliography at the end of the assignment and use the Harvard referencing system.
All work should be comprehensively referenced and all sources must be fully acknowledged, such as books and journals, websites (include the date of visit), etc.
In order to pass you need to address all the LOs and meet all the PASS (Ps) criterions within the LO.
In order to get a merit you need to address the characteristics of Pass and then M1, M2 ,M3 and M4
In order to get a distinction you need to address the characteristics of Pass, Merit and then D1, D2 and D3.
Textbooks
FRIEDMAN,A.L.(2012)ContinuingProfessionalDevelopment:LifelongLearningof Millions.London:Routledge.
MEE-YAN, C-J. and HOLBECHE, L. (2015)Organizational Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR.London: Kogan Page.
STEWART, J. and ROGERS, P. (2012)Developing People and Organisations.London: CIPD.
European Journal of Training and Development
International Journal of Training and DevelopmentOrganisation Development Journal
Links
Thisunitlinkstothefollowingrelatedunits:
Unit6:ManagingaSuccessfulBusinessProject Unit 12: OrganisationalBehaviour
Unit 17: Understanding and Leading Change Unit 19: Resource and Talent Planning
Unit 21: Strategic Human Resource Management
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