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WORK6108
International HRM
Assessments: Reflection Journal (A)
For your first piece of assessment writing
• The Brief has now been posted
• Below are the first 2 journal framing questions
• These will be discussed in Week 3 Workshop &
Tutorials
Assessments: Reflection Journal (A)
For your first 2 entries:
1. Imagine that you are about to embark on an expatriate assignment from (insert your home
country here) to (insert a country significantly different from yours on national cultural
dimensions) as a HR Business Partner. Use course concepts to ensure that you prepare for, and
develop an effective work-focussed cultural understanding.
2. Imagine that you are the HRM for a Global (insert your current or a proposed target industry
post Uni) firm. How might the emerging (post pandemic) Hybrid Workplace change HR
planning processes & programs (Chakraborty & Biswas, 2019), and the design of a typical
globally-focussed (insert industry) role? Use course concepts to explore how you might best
prepare for managing people in this emerging workplace.
Reflective Writing
Reflective writing is not:
•just conveying information, instruction or argument
•pure description, though there may be descriptive elements
•straightforward decision or judgement, e.g. about whether something is right or wrong, good or bad
•simple problem-solving
•a summary of course notes
•a standard university essay.
The 5R Framework (Bain et al, 2002) is a useful method for thinking about and structuring this type of writing, ie
Reading 4
Chakraborty & Biswas (2019)
highlight the importance of effective
HR Planning in a globalised business
environment.
A range of key HR planning activities
are explored and their contribution
to strategic outcomes, performance
and competitive advantage are
hypothesised.
Reading 4
They conclude that that Succession Planning played the most prominent role,
helping the firms to retain key intellectual capital, develop future leaders and
support broader performance and business growth.
After that came Talent Management – the process of identifying the key
talent (via both potential and performance metrics) and focussing on their
training& development and providing career advancement opportunities.
The others were less significant in this research context, reminding us that we
need to continue to research and assess where we should place our limited HR
resources to achieve the best impact on overall firm goals – depending on our
specific industry context.