Executive Summary

The brief

Activity 1. A critical reflection of the use of diaries as a formative and summative assessment tool (750 words)

Activity 2. A critical reflection of your own academic and professional transition during your M.Sc. HRM programme, including a visual metaphor, written exploration of your metaphor and a PDP with associated costs (750 words)

All guidance necessary for this submission will be given to you in workshop 8. Also, read the information below BEFORE the workshop.

Activity 1 guidance
Explore resources in the context of learning and development, as well as research from 3 and 4 star journals, which critically analyse the use of diaries as a learning tool. Examples of theories you may want to explore include:

Problem based learning
Constructive alignment learning and teaching
Pedagogy of formative and summative assessments over time.
Learning diaries and reflective logs the debate of situational learning techniques.

Activity 2 guidance
Consider your learning journey since you began your M.Sc. HRM at The University of Liverpool. To what extent have you experienced a transition, both individually and as a team member? This answer is in three parts:

a) Metaphor
Create your own visual metaphor to illustrate both your professional and personal journey. This should be accompanied by a written exploration of your learning metaphor (the 750 word count of this part of the task will exclude any headings, diagrams, pictures, figures and references and also exclude any words on the visual metaphor itself).

b) Explanation and analysis of your metaphor (approximately 550 words)

You need to write this as an exploration of your own learning metaphor, yet can draw upon actual aspects of your learning as you explore the metaphor. Examples may include the following, yet you do not need to discuss all these aspects of your learning:

Your own transition during the year were there any key moments of change? If so, why do you think they impacted upon you?
Team work. What have you learned from being in a team? What has been challenging for you?
Cross-cultural working opportunities and challenges?
Key aspects of your learning which resonated with you, such as external speakers, MBA talks, a company visit, reading certain books or articles, reflective diaries, presentations, lectures and seminars. How did they impact upon you and why?
What have you missed and why (such as lectures, seminars, external speakers, reading materials or company visit)? With hindsight, should you have gone to the company visit, for example? What do you wish you had done more of and less of this academic year?
Your professional HR journey. As the transition occurs, how has your own understanding of HR developed? What were the significant modules for you personally and why? What have you found difficult and why?

c) PDP and cost plan (approximately 200 words)

Consider your ongoing personal and professional development needs over the next two years.
In which professional areas do you need to gain more skills?
What personal attributes do you want to develop further (how will you strengthen your weaknesses and further enhance your strengths)?
How will you do this? Think of the varied ways you can approach your development. Some will cost nothing and others will cost money. Consider where you may work geographically and investigate what opportunities are available in that location. For example, you may wish to join your local CIPD branch events or annual conference if in the UK, you may wish to attend specific training courses in your chosen vicinity, you may want to have a coach or mentor, you may want to do work-shadowing, read books, do some e-learning, attend an international HR conference or join a local HR network. It is your responsibility to create a fully-costed plan and to justify your expenditure decisions.
Produce a cost schedule of your PDP for 2 years of your personal and professional development, with specific details for each quarter (such as proposed training providers). The cost schedule will not count in your wordcount.

Additional help with this executive summary

Workshop 8 will enable you to explore your ideas for this piece of work. You will be reminded of some key elements of your learning on ULMS550 and other modules. You will also be given the opportunity to start (or continue) creating your own metaphor and be shown some exemplary designs. It is important that you read the brief and that you are prepared in advance of this session in order to fully benefit from it. This is a compulsory session and a register of attendance will be taken.

Submission Date: Friday May 8th 12:00

You need to submit your visual metaphor drawing, as well as your 1500 word executive summary, in hard copy at the Student Support Office as one submission document. You also need to submit both your drawing and summary via Turnitin as well.

Guided reading. Here are some websites to begin your search about metaphor creation. It is YOUR responsibility to review the question and decide how to answer it effectively. A bibliography will be necessary of your research and this bibliography is not included in your wordcount.

https://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/v/q/vqw/Portfolio/VislMeta.pdf

https://www.howdesign.com/articles/metaphor/

https://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk

https://www.metaphor.eu

https://metaphordesignstudio.tumblr.com

https://www.metaphor.eu/exhibitions/

https://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/LearningMetaphors.html

https://core.ac.uk/download/files/161/4161247.pdf

https://www.rootinc.com/blog/storytelling/learning-is-a-journey-a-metaphor/

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