Developing skills for personal effectiveness, ethics and business acumen - BMO0287

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions. 

Other

Assessment 1: Portfolio

A 2,500-word personal development and reflective portfolio which critically evaluates experience and development in the four key areas listed in the Outline Syllabus at point 20 and in line with CIPD standards. 
 
 

Portfolio

This engaging and interactive module is essential for a career in HRM/HRD and you will learn how people professionals support other workers, how they promote effective and ethical behaviours to champion quality of work and improved working lives and, develop good business sense. The concepts that underpin this module are essential for promoting inclusiveness and influencing others through fair and transparent behaviours. Through core skill sets such as perception, critical thinking, communication and teamwork, this unit will promote understanding of how actions and inclusive behaviour impact on ethics and the organisation.
You will critically assess business issues and different ethical standpoints across people practices and the strategic importance of the HRM role to maintain high standards and secure good organisational outcomes. This module enables you to consolidate your learning from other modules in the course, gaining greater insight into your role in business improvement and improving to working lives. You will evaluate the promotion of well-being, fairness and the contribution of personal integrity within organisations across a range of people practices, by working collaboratively and reflectively across a variety of organisational sectors, contexts and boundaries. You will learn how to achieve and maintain challenging business outcomes through an understanding of business purpose and values, along with the self-awareness needed to support career progression.  Additionally, you will justify the benefits of maintaining a passion for learning, evaluate the need for continuing professional development and the merits of evidence-based critical thinking.  Finally, you will demonstrate behaviours associated with effective influencing and decision-making as well as assessing the benefits of networking.
The module begins at the induction onto the course and involves a number of workshops delivered through the programme of study to integrate and consolidate learning, linking topics to professional standards using the CIPD profession map, providing active reflective space to support learning to cohere around CIPD standards, and connecting learning topics to other professional development opportunities within and beyond the University.

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BMO0287 - Developing skills for personal effectiveness, ethics and business acumen

Developing skills for personal effectiveness, ethics and business acumen

To express curiosity and humility through a capacity to challenge and be challenged in the pursuit of improved organisational outcomes

To understand the importance of sustained commitment to knowledge and learning across a range of digital skills, people management-related skills, abilities and techniques and to be able to evidence this 

To critically examine a range of skills to ensure the responsible management of people through sound, evidence-based and justifiable decisions to address organisational challenges and commitment to principles of inclusion, fairness and well-being 

To be able to reflect on one’s own practice in the people profession, ensuring awareness of changing professional demands to maintain personal development as well as organisational effectiveness and values 

To display a range of self-management abilities commensurate with people management professionals, eliciting credibility and respect from others through demonstration of responsible management, digital and analytical skills