Assignment Brief:
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Managing Self and Others report and reflective blog. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1.Evaluate concepts associated with career development strategies.
2.Assess the development of a lifelong learning approach and skills development taken by yourself and others.
3.Evaluate and apply a range of strategies that lead to ‘high performance’ people.
4.Apply such strategies to working as an individual or as part of a team.
5.Reflect on your personal performance to demonstrate learning and self-
improvement.
HRM6001 Managing Self & Others Report & Reflective Blog Assignment-Arden University UK.
Lifelong Learning: Manage employ ability, utilising the skills of personal
development and planning in different contexts to contribute to society and the workplace.
Maximum word count: 4000 words
Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by the same percentage that the word count is exceeded.
You must not include your name in your submission – Arden University operates anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.
Assignment Task
Consider the content and theory that you have learnt in the Module – Managing Self and Others and apply this to answer the following questions:
Question 1 – Career Development and Lifelong Learning
a. Create your own individual PDP that shows evidence of your development achieved in the past 12 months and applies your planned development for the next 12 months.
To achieve this, you must demonstrate how you manage yourself. This should include how you manage stress, positive thinking and assertiveness to produce your own career development plans. You should create plans for goal setting, a personal skills audit and a personal SWOT. From this, you can then create your PDP.
Within your PDP include examples and evidence that demonstrate advanced learning methods, learning resources, learning timescales, expected outcomes and any necessary communications that may support your learning and development. Please read Lesson 3 Career Development, Future Planning and Reflective Practice for information on how to complete your skills audit,SWOT and PDP.
b. Produce an illustrated report that assesses how strategies for skills development and lifelong learning may enable career development for you and your team colleagues.
To achieve this, evaluate concepts associated with career development
strategies in order to consider how the skills and career development of
employees through integrated personal development planning may support
employee motivation and, ultimately, employee retention and progression.
HRM6001 Managing Self & Others Report & Reflective Blog Assignment-Arden University UK.
Question 2 – High Performance Individuals and Teams
a.Create your own blog to produce a concise summary to answer the following:
How may high performance people be developed by effective performance
management?
To achieve this, you must undertake a series of postings and exchanges using either the i learn Discussion Forum (with students) or your own blog site (with work colleagues) using examples from your workplace or previous experience. It will be important to engage with other students or colleagues from as early as week 2 of this module to promote collaborative learning and gain different perspectives.
The blog content should be pasted into an appendix and referred to in your
summary.
Please see your Tutors weekly posting + Live Chats for additional guidance for this task.
b.Produce an illustrated report that evaluates how high-performance strategies enable you to reflect on how you may work effectively as part of a team.
To achieve this, consider how strategies intended to develop high performance may enable you to meet your personal development needs when working with individuals (individual differences, perceptions and attitudes, learning, development and motivation communication skills) and, in doing so, help create high performing teams.
Formative Feedback
You have the opportunity to submit your DRAFT outline / plan for question 1 and 2 to receive formative feedback.
The feedback is designed to help you develop areas of your work and it helps you develop your skills as an independent learner.
To receive formative feedback, your draft outline / plan must be submitted by email to your tutor three (3) weeks prior to the assessment submission date. This is to allow time for you to reflect on the feedback and draft your final submission.Your tutor’s email address is noted on the module homepage; see right hand side:Module Information – Your Tutor for this module – tutor’s name + email address
Formative feedback will not be given to work submitted after the above date.
Student Guidelines
Development of academic skills:
You MUST underpin your analysis and evaluation of the key issues with appropriate and wide ranging academic research and ensure this is referenced using the AU Harvard system.
The My Study Skills Area on iLearn contains useful resources relating to referencing.
You must use the AU Harvard Referencing method in your assignment.
Additional notes:
Students are required to indicate the exact word count on the title page of the assessment.
The word count excludes the title page, tables, figures, diagrams, footnotes, reference list and appendices. Where assessment questions have been reprinted from the assessment brief these will also be excluded from the word count. ALL other printed words ARE included in the word count See ‘Word Count Policy’ on the homepage of this module for more information.
Submission Guidance:
Assignments submitted late will not be accepted and will be marked as a 0%
fail.
HRM6001 Managing Self & Others Report & Reflective Blog Assignment-Arden University UK.
Your assessment should be submitted as a single Word (MS Word) or PDF file. For more information please see the “Guide to Submitting an Assignment” document available on the module page on i Learn.
You must ensure that the submitted assignment is all your own work and that all sources used are correctly attributed. Penalties apply to assignments which show evidence of academic unfair practice. (See the Student Handbook which is on the homepage of your module and in the Induction Area).