| L01 – Be able to model principles and values that promote inclusivity aimed at maximising the contribution that people make to organisations. |
| Question 3 To be able to self-evaluate personal and professional integrity in relation to ethical practice, professional courage and influence, and valuing people. 650 – 700 words ± 10 |
| Starting Point Here, I can rate myself as 9 which means I am proficient in this area. The rationale of scoring myself as excellent is informed by the fact that I always carry out a self evaluation of myself. This is in the areas of ethical practices, embrace professional courage and influence and valuing people. Nevertheless, I am yet to evaluate all the risks which could be encountered in an organisation in the process of ensuring embrace to integrity, courageous and value to all people. This is evidently clear in my role working in IHCC where I am tasked with a role of ensuring that the employees I recruit touch the communities. For fairness, I don’t disclose potential employee nationality and gender to screen and shortlist employees to guarantee fairness. Also, in the past, I have managed a security issue in IHCC despite occurring beyond my assigned roles. Any employee who is unethical or fails to value the interests of the clients is dismissed. Also, as a woman leader in my community, I ensure that I guide women on the best practice of embracing ethical standards in all their activities in the society. Development Objectives I need to: a) To be able to understand the consistent changes in the areas of personal and professional integrity in ethical practices, professional courage and influence b) To achieve the best practice in diagnosing all the organisation risks, fairness in approach and harnessing the overall transparency c) Setting appropriate measures intended to improve how different stakeholders are engaged in the process of building professional courage, influencing others d) To develop insights on how to manage bad feelings when there are instances of opposition in my current organisation Importance to me Important In my profession as a HR Professional, my intention is embracing diversity and inclusion in my active practice. This call for a specific manner of thinking and actions which is universal and consistent even in fresh and challenging phenomenon. Also, in my experience working in IHCC and being involved as a community women leader, I have managed to experience the outcomes of scandals if ethics are not integral to societal or organisations operations. Hence, ethics are at the heart of my professionalism and community engagement. This is while embracing strong integrity and valuing others. Learning Plan (with dates) 1) Within a period of 2 months, my intention is to ensure that I can use available content in peer reviewed journals and other publications for appreciating ethical practices, professional courage while influencing the rest to achieve 80% improved ethical practice in my roles and organisation 2) I intend to use my set skills in a period of 3 months to appreciate on risk management, embrace fair-based practice while harnessing transparency levels to improve fairness with 70% in my organisation operations 3) In a period of 4 months, I intend to enrol in a coaching and mentoring program on gaining relevant insights on the best practice of managing inappropriate feelings particularly in cases of opposition for 60% of all the roles I am assigned in my organisation Evaluating Competence To evaluate my competence, I would use the 360-degree assessment. This is a method identified in Eiris et al. (2018) as involving reviewers such as peers, direct reports, senior colleagues or customers. They would identify my competency in being able to embrace ethics, being courageous in executing my roles and with high integrity. Also, since I confidentially maintain all the records of employees in my organisation, any leakage of such information such as payslips, salaries increment or personal health details of the employees would be an indicator of my lack of integrity. I ensure all my terms confidentially embrace good integrity. Possible threats to my progress The issue of professional courage and demands for integrity are always under a consistent change impacting the scope of influence in their implementation. For instance, working in IHCC, since COVID-19 pandemic emerged, there are instances where the population ask for favours by disguising themselves as needy. Failure to appropriate recognise this would lead to inappropriate decisions which are unethical and lack influence.Bad feelings are often emerging limiting the success of influence to others to take an active role in the organisation. For instance, often, employees in IHCC being a turnkey solutions organisation prioritise on making money for the organisation. Over the years, the performance appraisal in the organisation has been monetised. Hence, the employees tend to ignore ethics leading to immense issues to the organisation. Question 5 To be able to reflect on levels of self-awareness, self-management and continuous self-improvement, leading to improved organisational success and career progression. Starting Point Here, I can rank myself as 6. This means I am above average Working as a people practice professional, since COVID-19 pandemic emerged, multiple instances have emerged which have required re-evaluation of IHCC organisation operations. This is due to the challenges which have emerged in the business environment particularly in regard to resumption of active business operations. I have managed to go through different hurdles which are evidenced by my capacity to manage my behaviours, entire thoughts, and emotions consciously and productively. Through self-awareness, I have managed to influence different situations in my organisation which has impacted the overall engagement. Currently, IHCC is ranked as an employer brand and featured in the Sunday Times 100 organisations for working for. The reason why I am an average performer in this category is influenced by my ability to maintain a continuous self-improvement. I nevertheless need to improve my communication skills for expressing myself appropriately. Majorly, I prioritise on areas of growth that are beneficial to me as a person rather than intended to harness organisation success. This is in areas of identification of my weaknesses, improving skills and learning new ones and identification and development of strengths/talents. I am also not effective in managing my time and stress. As a women leader, in instances I have encountered women suffering from health issues which impacted on my stress levels. Also, I have been nominated by KSA to become a women leader as part of KSA transformation vision 2030. I got a certificate. Development Objectives I need to; · Build on my knowledge in the area of psychological needs with a particular focus on those that drive my behaviours contributing to development of a culture of high-level awareness · Improve my ability for time management in the roles assigned to me specifically in the areas which are constraining to my practice. This is by training myself in becoming time efficient · Build on understanding of the best practice in promoting stress management particularly through weighing on pros and cons for decisive planning, sound judgements on difficult situations Importance to me Important In both my career and real life as both a community leader, family person and entrepreneur, self-awareness, self-management and continuous self-improvement is instrumental to me. This is since I have found this to impact the scope of my entity success, progress in my career and being competitive. Personal development plan (SMART) · In every week, I would attend group discussions with different team members in my organisation to gain insights on how to be self-aware on issues affecting us in our organisation to achieve 80% increased stress management and accuracy of decision making · Take part on work shadowing sessions every half of the year with an intention of building my self-management in areas of time and financial management while ensuring I am updated with new changes in my organisation and business environment by doing Gallup assessments · To enroll in a short-term course to build my skills and knowledge on various areas of HR which would ensure that I 100% contribute to my organisation success in its business environment How will I evaluate my competence? To measure my competence in self-awareness, I would use the Gallup assessment and Birkman test. As evidenced in Sutton (2016), this would be inclusive of evaluating how I am reflecting and developing and evaluating training needs which are designed for assisting me in developing my skills Further, I would use the self-management self-test (SMST). According to Wehmeier et al. (2020) the importance of this tool would be to test my ability to promote convergent validity, ability of differentiating, criterion validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability. This would be important to evaluate how I cope with highly stressful work conditions and how I am executing my functions. During COVID-19 pandemic, stress issues had been prevalent. Formative and summative assessments would be used to evaluate my competence for continuous development plan Possible threats to my progress In my role working in IHCC, I have to work for many hours for my success in my assigned job roles. This is also complicated by the fact that I am a family person, entrepreneur, women leader and also take part in different initiatives for organisation change. This would impact my ability to take part in continuous learning process Also, stress and lack of effective self-management are not necessarily due to lack of capability to management them but due to external factors beyond my control. These factors beyond my control would limit my success. |
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