MHRE128 Project: Career Development
Анотация:
From an organisational perspective, helping to manage the careers of others is a key aspect of personnel and development work. In doing so the personnel and development professional has to consider and balance:
• aspirations and expectations of individual employees, who are increasingly aware both of their marketability and their vulnerability to market forces and therefore conscious of the need to acquire and maintain a portfolio of transferable capabilities
• the organisation’s need to secure its skills base, and develop people’s potential and commitment, in the face of global competition for knowledge workers and scarce managerial talent.
• the way people are increasingly concerned about maintaining a balance between work and ‘quality of life’.
The course provides the opportunity to link the theoretical concepts of career management and development to practice. Students identify specific issues related to personal development. The assignment directs them to exert the appropriate theories and concepts in their own developmental analysis, to perform critical reflection on the theory and practice observed, and to propose appropriate recommendations for improvement.
The course directs students to gain firsthand experience in identifying own needs for learning and development and design a plan of own career management and development prioritizing the needs and corresponding actions for 2 years period.
The objectives of the course are:
• Developing skills for planning and undertaking activities to develop their own managerial and leadership skills.
• Exploring and analyzing tools and practices for managing development and careers in specific organizations.
• Applying self-assessment tools and perform a personal SWOT analysis of the current state.
• Applying a model of skills and personal competences in assessing the individual and making an own development plan.
• Better understanding and exploring individual learning styles, personal and career orientations.
Преподавател(и):
гл. ас. Александър Пожарлиев д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
After completing successfully this course the students will:
1) know:
• The nature and importance of self-assessment and creation and maintenance of self-confidence in individuals as they face job or role changes.
• The tools and techniques available for diagnosis and assessment in the field of career management, development and guidance.
2) are capable of:
• Identify and predict possible patterns of career development for individuals within organisations.
• Support and counsel individuals who may be thinking of career change whether voluntary or otherwise.
• Provide guidance on the value and application of psychometric tests and other diagnostic tools that might be employed to facilitate career management and development.
• Handle the emotional implications of career management and recognise and deal appropriately with various reactions to job loss, managed career change, difficult situations, disappointment or success.
Предварителни изисквания:
Students should have the following knowledge and/or skills:
• English reading/ writing skills.
• Working experience in an organization is desirable.
• Participation in course MHRE 114D Career Management and Development.
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Проект
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- Taking responsibility for the own career and development. Main theories of the individual learning process and development. Experiential learning theory. Theory of motivation development. Theory of social learning. Theory of self-directed change. Cycle of development and change. Career anchors. Self-assessment.
- Management skills modeling. Learning styles analysis. Evaluation and analysis of the personal orientation, values, goals and skills. Individual SWOT analysis and SMART development goals, evidence of competence.
- Planning own development, areas, goals, measures, time period.
Литература по темите:
Main reading:
• Pojarliev, A. (2009) Career Management and Development, Textbook for MSc in Human Resources Management, School of Management-NBU, Sofia, ISBN: 978-954-535-563-9.
Additional readngs:
• Boyatzis, R. E., Kolb, D. A. (1991). Assessing Individuality in Learning: The Learning Skills Profile. Educational Psychology, Vol. 11, Issue 3/4, p. 279.
• Carter, G., Cook, K., Dorsey, D. (2009). Career Paths. Charting Courses to Success for Organizations and Their Employees. Wiley-Blackwell.
• King, Z. (2004). Career Management – a CIPD guide. London: CIPD.
• Knowdell, R. L. (1996). Building a Career Development Program. Davies-Black Publishing, Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California.
• Kolb, D. A. (1999). Learning Style Inventory. Version 3. Hay/ McBer.
• Osland, J., Kolb, D., Rubin, I., Turner, M. (2007). Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach, 8-th edition, NY: Prentice-Hall.
• Schein, E. (1990). Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values, London: Pfeffer and Co.
• Sonnenfeld, J., Peiperl, M. (1988). Staffing Policy as a Strategic Response: A Typology of Career Systems, Academy of Management Review, Vol 13, N 4.
• Yarnal, J. (2008). Strategic Career Management. Developing your Talent. Elsevier.