Human Financial Recourse Management: this week we focussed on performance appraisal. To briefly explain this Armstrong (2006) has defined performance management as “a systematic process for improving organizational performance by developing the performance of individuals and teams. It is a means of getting better results from the organization, teams and individuals by understanding and managing performance.... Processes exist for establishing shared understanding about what is to be achieved, and for managing and developing people in a way that increases the probability that it will be achieved ...” (pp.1-2). W also looked at examples to help us understand this definition for example Queens Mary university of London, employs reviewing their performance in section 2.
LPD & Non-LPD Activities
Learning Professional Development activities: are based around career occupations these include researching occupations to your suitable interest. It also includes generating ideas and gathering evidence to show that you are aware of the expectation of responsibility and award for your next job. It is the preparation and awareness of self-assessment, which will drive you through this unit. Various techniques are used to generate career ideas, for example using less structured approaches but instead looking at your own self-assessment of how you would react, change or adopt into working environment. This week we are creating our very own blog.
Media law: we started the 1st hour of the lecture by drawing a sketch of the person sitting next to us and through this, we understood the copyright act. This was by creating our own work and writing the owner name, which is yourself to dictate the publisher therefore it, becomes illegal under the copyright act for anyone to copy your work. We talked through the legislation and the restriction of copyright act throughout the seminar.
We also defined what copyright act is and looked at the type of work and event that decides the duration of copyright. For example, type of work literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, event is ' author dies 'and the duration from end of year event is 70 years. This changes as its 50 years for computer generated work and 25 years for typographical arrangements of publicised editions.
Contemporary Media Communications: we had a spokesman come in from BBC in the lecture to explain the methods used to gain information from people this was very useful as it will help us toward our final group presentation we are working in groups to create and present presentation on ethnic minorities and the type of music they listen to. This week we are creating a survey using the website monkey survey to address question relating the subject to ethnic minorities. In the seminar, our group came up with many ideas and question in what we think are suitable and appropriate question to ask members of society. We faced few difficulties such as cutting down the survey and including the question that are relevant yet important for the presentation as we had written down too many question to narrow it down. This will continue in next week before the full completion of the survey.
Human and Financial Management: we looked at competency levels in an organisation. From level 1 looking at activities of all employees to level 4 being activities conducted by top managers. The task was to find out what is important for an organisation for level 2 and 3. This we figured out was the operational and tactical level. Following in the seminar, we looked how different organisation advertises for recruitment. We had bought 4 adverts as a task from home and discussed and compared the adverts in relation to the layout how the organisation attracts employees for instance in the job description include the big salary or use of persuasive language etc. We also looked at the negatives for instance organisation consider the evaluation analysis as advertising could be costly and some organisation do not include salary as it may put off some people or the salary can be negotiable.
Design Online Learning: first half of the lecture was looking at how online teaching can help people of all range to learn. We were shown few online learning methods for instance how to set up a blog or a wiki. This was very basic and perhaps addressed at those who are not in information technology courses. It was aimed at school children or for anybody who does not know how to use or set up wiki or blog. Also we wren given a task between set of groups. A blog was given to us and we had to discuss within us what our response to that blog would begin the seminar we looked and discussed how previous students in this unit did their assignment. This was shown by few examples on PowerPoint and few handouts.
Contemporary Organisation: In the lecture, we viewed a video of buses running in Manchester. The point of this was to see what is expected by customer’s bus driver’s financial owners and managers. Later for this we worked in groups firstly to discuss what is expected by buses in Manchester for customers for instance food customer service...time management. Clean buses, cheap tickets to attract customers. Then we discussed the issues of buses like overcrowded buses, tickets expensive, late dirty buses. Once the issues were obvious we worked as groups to see how we would measure a target so the service is better. For instance as customer we want the buses to arrive on time how we would meet the requirement and the achieving by the service providers. This was later discussed in class.
This week is self study week where we have to study about the theories ofcognitivist, behaverioul and humanist. Behavioural (or "behavioural") theory in psychology is a very substantial field: follow the links to the left or right for introductions to some of its more detailed contributions impinging on how people learn in the real world. The cognitive school is probably best defined by exclusion: if it isn’t biological, behaviourist or humanist, it's cognitive.
Media law: this week lecture slides were on patent law. It is important to understand that patents afford a powerful and particular protection for inventions that meet exacting standards. The monopoly granted to the owner is time limited and the invention will eventually fall into the public domain. Patents relate to new, industrially applicable inventions; they grant the owner a monopoly in their invention; types of patentable invention; historical development of the patent system and relevant statutes, including the Patents Act 2004.
Managing Contemporary Organisation: In preparation for week 9 we were told to do a test provided to help us understand emotional intelligence in depth. this is a online test acing you question such as when someone feels sad you feel sad too, then I have to choose out of options strongly agree, slightly, somewhat or strongly slightly disagree withstatments given .it also tell you your progression as you continue. I have printed this out to show it in my next week lecture. Definitions of EI mayor add emotion “a feeling state (including physiological responses and cognitions) that conveys information about relationships” (e.g. fear = flee).
Contemporary Media Communications: Last week some of the group members including myself were unable to attend the seminar due to religion festival. Therefore we did not present power presentation that week however we prepared during the week to make a short presentation including audios and basic information of what we have done achieved from our results so far. In the meeting we also shared our thoughts on what is important to include and exclude from the presentation. We have given the work to our tutor to show the work is complete. Humanistic "theories" of learning tend to be highly value-driven and hence more like prescriptions (about what ought to happen) rather than descriptions (of what does happen). This will be discussed further in week9.
Learning Professional Development: this week we used the session to get my CV up to date as well as being told what to do for the video interview that you we include in your portfolio submission. The importance of interview was also was also told in the slides, starting from the basic of your application being accepted to wanting to know more about you as an individual. Interviews are wide ranging to find out about you personal attributes. Including knowledge, experience, skills, interest etc.there are different types of interviews. One to one, panel interviews technical interviews etc. this information helped me prepare for future interviews that I may come across in my future.
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