ASB 3101 Human Resource Management: Assignment Guidelines:
Individual Assignment: Reflective Essay (60%)The reflective essay will take the form of individual reflection upon some aspect of your personal experience of human resource management.Throughout the module, you will be exposed to various activities associated with HRM, such as recruitment and selection, training and development, dealing with work-place relationships etc. Think
about how HRM relates to you: have you applied for a graduate job; have you been an employee; how have you been paid at work; how have you dealt with work-related conflict, perhaps during group-
based assignments at university? These are all potential areas for you to reflect on. You are required to write a reflective essay that(a) makes use of relevant theory to provide a detailed analysis of one aspect of your personal experience of HRM and(b) considers the implications of your analysis for the effective management of human resources within organisations.In practice, this means answering four simple questions (these may even be the headings you use in your individual assignment!):1. What happened to me eg during a job interview, training session, appraisal meeting, or during group work? Give brief details of the context.
2. What worked well/not so well? Why might this have happened? What did I learn? What would I do differently next time?
3. What theories of HRM can explain what happened?
4. What could line managers and/or Human Resource professionals do to ensure things (continue to) work well in future and/or prevent such problems?For example, your reflective essay may address one of the following topics:1. Job interviews, assessment centres
2. Induction to a new organisation
3. A training and development session, e-learning package
4. A performance review with your supervisor/line manager
5. A grievance with a colleague
6. Being selected for a talent development programme
7. Conflict within your group (at university or work organisation)
8. Cross-generational working
9. Issues surrounding group leadership/management (or a lack thereof!)
10. The impact of culture on group workYou need not be constrained by this list and should focus on an HRM topic that you are interested in researching (and writing about) in detail.
A high quality reflective essay will involve:
Meeting the terms of reference (objectives a and b) by answering the four questions presented above
Excellent presentation and layout (style and structure)
The ability to undertake constructive/honest self-reflection (openness, clarity and realism of reflective critique)
The ability to analyse and provide explanations, linking to relevant literature
An overall grasp and understanding of the HRM activities involved

Individual reflective essay

a. Draw upon literature and course material to critically assess your own entrepreneurial characteristics and tendencies. Include theory as well as practice in your answer. Wider reading tends to be associated with higher marks.
b. Submissions should be a maximum of 1,500 words in length
c. An electronic copy must be uploaded to LEARN where it will also be checked for plagiarism
d. Essay format
e. Make sure your name is stated clearly on this document
Part A. Individual reflective essay (40% of total mark)
Deadline Friday 11 December 2015, 3pm

a. Draw upon literature and course material to critically assess your own entrepreneurial characteristics and tendencies. Include theory as well as practice in your answer. Wider reading tends to be associated with higher marks.
b. Submissions should be a maximum of 1,500 words in length
c. An electronic copy must be uploaded to LEARN where it will also be checked for plagiarism
d. Essay format
e. Make sure your name is stated clearly on this document
This is the tips from my tutor
The material on entrepreneurial characteristics was given to you mostly in session 2.
Tendencies that you should do a TEST on link: http://get2test.net/

So what you have to do, for example, is determine whether you have a strong need for achievement (NAch), locus of control and take a responsibility etc. So you need to think about your own personality and characteristics. You also had a general enterprising tendency test in class, the results of which you could use.( http://get2test.net/). I have had a few questions about assignment number one and specifically
whether writing in the first person is acceptable i.e. using ‘I’ . The
answer is yes you can use ‘I’ because it is a reflective essay and you are
expected to discuss yourself.

Individual reflective essay

a. Draw upon literature and course material to critically assess your own entrepreneurial characteristics and tendencies. Include theory as well as practice in your answer. Wider reading tends to be associated with higher marks.
b. Submissions should be a maximum of 1,500 words in length
c. An electronic copy must be uploaded to LEARN where it will also be checked for plagiarism
d. Essay format
e. Make sure your name is stated clearly on this document
Part A. Individual reflective essay (40% of total mark)
Deadline Friday 11 December 2015, 3pm

a. Draw upon literature and course material to critically assess your own entrepreneurial characteristics and tendencies. Include theory as well as practice in your answer. Wider reading tends to be associated with higher marks.
b. Submissions should be a maximum of 1,500 words in length
c. An electronic copy must be uploaded to LEARN where it will also be checked for plagiarism
d. Essay format
e. Make sure your name is stated clearly on this document
This is the tips from my tutor
The material on entrepreneurial characteristics was given to you mostly in session 2.
Tendencies that you should do a TEST on link: http://get2test.net/

So what you have to do, for example, is determine whether you have a strong need for achievement (NAch), locus of control and take a responsibility etc. So you need to think about your own personality and characteristics. You also had a general enterprising tendency test in class, the results of which you could use.( http://get2test.net/). I have had a few questions about assignment number one and specifically
whether writing in the first person is acceptable i.e. using ‘I’ . The
answer is yes you can use ‘I’ because it is a reflective essay and you are
expected to discuss yourself.