Choose one of the professional skills you have studied in units 4 and 5 and which you have identified as an area in which you wish to develop your skills. With reference to the materials you have studied, explain why you believe that this skill is important for you as an HR professional.

Leadership in Human Resources

This piece of assessment is made up of three parts. Read them carefully and complete each one. It is absolutely crucial that you use both the materials I provide and outside sources! Not using the materials I have provided will blow the cover completely.

Part (a)

Select any two theories of leadership, (ie. Transformational, distributed, servant) briefly describe their essential principles and assess the extent to which your chosen model can still be found in (i) organisations generally and (ii) your own organisation or one you know well. Draw on specific examples from one or more organisations to illustrate your answer. Please be critical and draw on strengths and weaknesses of the two theories.

Part (b)

Choose one of the professional skills you have studied in units 4 and 5 and which you have identified as an area in which you wish to develop your skills. With reference to the materials you have studied, explain why you believe that this skill is important for you as an HR professional.

Part (c)

Provide a sample of your skills portfolio which demonstrates how you have gone about developing this skill and how you propose to continue this development in the future. This should include your objective for developing this skill, evidence of how you have practised it in the workplace and your learning from reflection on this practice.

Guidance: key points for students re TMA02

This TMA should be written in an essay style.

You should:

Answer both parts of the question.

Make sure you refer to relevant theories, concepts, models and debates in both parts of the assignment, including using at least one model of reflective practice in Part b).

Make sure your skills portfolio sample is concise yet allows assessment in Part (b). The sample provided should be no more than 500 words.

You can make use of appendices but these must be limited to five pages maximum.

Reference correctly.

Note that:

You can use diagrams, graphs and figures which will not be counted in the word length. However, you should not attempt to sidestep the word length, for example by excessive use of diagram labels or hyphenation. The reference list is also excluded from the word count.

In-text references and the content of tables are included in the word length.