HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Assessment 1

Assessment 1: Detailed instructions

Completion requirements

Assessment Task 1 : Individual Report

Purpose

The purpose of this assessment is to conduct an environmental scan to identify, analyse and communicate a trend or issue of relevance to Human Resource Development (HRD).

Task details

Select two recent, relevant, related articles from the HRD literature. One of the articles should be from an academic journal. By recent, consider articles published from 2010 to the current day. This is also applicable for other journal papers that you will use in your assessment.

Read and analyse the articles and write a report that addresses the following:

• Explain the issue or trend addressed in the articles by briefly analysing the key information presented in each article.


• Explain why you believe the issue/trend is significant to the practice of HRD, and describe what impact you think it will have on the practice of HRD in organisations.


• Make two recommendations for action you believe a HRD manager/professional should follow to deal with the issue or trend. Explain and support your recommendations.

Instructions

Your paper should have the following sections (this is just a guideline):

• An introduction


• A section on the analysis of the issue/trend discovered in the articles


• A section on the significance of the issue/trend to the domain of HRD and discuss the impact on practice of HRD in organisations


• A section on two recommendations for action to overcome the issue/trend with evidence and examples to support your recommendations


• A conclusion


• A reference list.

You must consult and reference a minimum of four (4) academic resources (i.e. journal articles, books, book chapters etc) to support your analysis. You need to use APA7 referencing.

The total length of the assessment is a maximum of 1,000 words (+/- 10%) (Reference list and title page are excluded from the word count).

Resources and readings relevant to the assessment

It is recommended that you consider the following publications to identify relevant articles:

• Academy of Management Journal


• Academy of Management Learning & Education


• Academy of Management Review


• Administrative Science Quarterly


• Human Resource Development Quarterly


• Human Resource Management


• Human Resource Planning


• Journal of Applied Psychology


• Journal of Management


• Journal of Management Development


• Journal of Management Education


• Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Management Learning


• Human Resource Development International

Format

The document should be written as a clear, concise report. It is important that your report has a logical flow and good structure, makes use of relevant subheadings where appropriate and that you write using coherent, integrated text, avoiding grammatical and spelling mistakes.

For reading (and marking) ease please use a 12-point Calibri font with 1.5x spacing. Please submit your assignment in Word document.

You are advised to consult the grading rubric before commencing your assessment piece.

Assessment 2

ssessment Task 2: Individual Human Resource Development Training Plan

Purpose

The purpose of this assessment is for you to plan, design and evaluate a training program.

Task details

You are a Learning and Development Consultant, and you have been engaged by A & J university. The university currently has three regional campuses in Victoria, Australia. The CEO, Ali Jas, has asked you to develop a training plan which can be administered across all the regional campuses, and also in its Melbourne campus.

Your task is to develop a detailed proposal for the training plan, based on one of the topics below:

• Leadership development program (a training program for professional staff members)


• A performance management toolkit for giving and receiving better feedback (a training program for senior academic managers)


• Managing health and wellbeing (a training program for academics and/or professional staff members)


• Creating a safer and more inclusive workplace for employees with disabilities (a training program for academics)


• Supporting women in leadership role (a training plan for women academics identified as potential leader)


• Mentoring culturally and linguistically diverse academics (a mentoring program for international/migrant academics).

Instructions

The training plan should include the following:

1. A title and overall description of the plan.


2. One training objective.


3. The training methods to be used and the rationale for using these methods (including a discussion of the principles using academic articles on which the selection of training methods is based).


4. A tentative lesson plan for the delivery of your training session (attach as an appendix: not included in the word count).


5. A list, brief description and justifications of training materials you will use to deliver your training. Please provide justifications/rationales with examples for each training materials that you have chosen using academic articles.


6. A program evaluation plan. Evaluation should be done at both the reaction and learning levels. Please provide evaluation questions you will ask at thereaction and learning levels. What evaluation tools/methods you will use forreaction and learning levels.

You must consult and reference a minimum of five (5) academic resources (i.e. journal articles, books, book chapters etc) to support your analysis. You must use APA7 referencing.

The total length of the assessment is a maximum of 1,500 words (+/- 10%) (Reference list and title page are excluded from the word count).

Resources and readings relevant to the assessment

It is recommended that you consider the following publications to identify relevant articles:

• Academy of Management Journal


• Academy of Management Learning & Education


• Academy of Management Review


• Administrative Science Quarterly


• Human Resource Development Quarterly


• Human Resource Management


• Human Resource Planning


• Journal of Applied Psychology


• Journal of Management


• Journal of Management Development


• Journal of Management Education


• Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Management Learning


• Human Resource Development International

Format

The document should be written as a clear, concise report. It is important that your report has a logical flow and good structure, makes use of relevant subheadings where appropriate and that you write using coherent, integrated text, avoiding grammatical and spelling mistakes.

For reading (and marking) ease please use a 12-point Calibri font with 1.5x spacing.Please submit your assignment in Word document.

You are advised to consult the grading rubric before commencing your assessment piece.

Assessment 3

Assessment Task 3: Career Development Analysis

Purpose

The purpose of this assessment is to conduct a self-case analysis on your career development plan.

Task details

In this current age, you are required to actively manage your own career path. This assessment will prompt you to think deeply and reflect on the jobs, career or industry that you really want to work in. Your task is to address the following questions in an essay/report format:

Key issues

1. Where do I want to be

Some key issues to analyse and consider here include:

• What are my short-term career objectives?


• What are my long-term career objectives?


• Why are these key objectives important to you?

2. Where am I now?

Two key issues you should address here include:

• An assessment and analysis of my current personal values

Here are links to some of the self-assessment survey to evaluate your values, skills, etc.:

• NEW VALUE SORT for Career Ready Values Sort


• VIA Survey


• Free Career Quiz | Holland Code Job Aptitude Test (truity.com)


• What can I do with a career in...?, Careers and Opportunities, La Trobe University

You can use other survey assessments that you found interesting. You must attach the survey results as evidence to support your analysis in the Appendix section.

• An assessment and analysis of my current knowledge, skills, abilities and other qualifications compared to those required for my desired job/position. For this, you need to first find a position description and then conduct the gap analysis.

Plan of actions

3. How am I going to get there?

In this section you need to outline three (3) strategies (plan of actions) that are able to assist you to obtain your career goals and also to overcome your gap identified in Section 2. This may be very specific if you are already very clear on your career goals and it can be very general if you are unclear of your career goals as yet. In either case, the idea is to discuss ways of pursuing a career that is most consistent with your lifestyle goals and values.

Reflection/Learning

4. What are your learning curves?

Analyse two (2) learning outcomes that you experience by conducting this self-analysis case study assignment. Some guiding questions are:

• What challenges did you face while completing this assignment?


• How did you solve those challenges?


• What did you see as the major benefits of this assignment?


• What do you see any disadvantages or drawbacks of this assignment?

In this section, you also need to provide a visual career map that includes:

• your future position/industry


• necessary skills/experiences needed for the position


• your strengths/values in gaining the position


• challenges that you anticipate in gaining the position


• strategies in gaining the position.

A satisfactory career map will be added to the Career Portfolio under the LTU Career Ready Advantage Award initiative. You can learn more about the Career Ready Advantage Award and eligible activities via theCRAwebpage andCareer Hub.

Instructions

Your essay/report should have the following structure:

• An Introduction


• Body


• Conclusion


• Reference List.

You must consult and reference a minimum of five (5) academic resources (i.e. journal articles, books, book chapters etc) to support your analysis in Sections 2, 3 and 4. You need to use APA7 referencing.

The total length of the assessment is a maximum of 1,500 words (+/- 10%) (Reference list and title page are excluded from the word count).

Resources and readings relevant to the assessment

It is recommended that you consider the following publications to identify relevant articles:

• Academy of Management Journal


• Academy of Management Learning & Education


• Academy of Management Review


• Administrative Science Quarterly


• Human Resource Development Quarterly


• Human Resource Management


• Human Resource Planning


• Journal of Applied Psychology


• Journal of Management


• Journal of Management Development


• Journal of Management Education


• Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Management Learning


• Human Resource Development International

Format

The document should be written as a clear, concise report. It is important that your report has a logical flow and good structure, makes use of relevant subheadings where appropriate and that you write using coherent, integrated text, avoiding grammatical and spelling mistakes.

For reading (and marking) ease please use a 12-point Calibri font with 1.5x spacing.Please submit your assignment in Word document.

You are advised to consult the grading rubric before commencing your assessment piece.