Human Resource Management
The Human Resource Management Academic Assignment
(A critical analysis of my own and my colleagues’ performance during our class based teamwork)
1. Introduction
In my case, human resource management (HRM) was the most interesting subject last term. Although I am the oldest team member in the HRM class and have twelve years of work experience, I learned many things from other young team members. My team in Gerry’s class consisted of seven members, who were four males (A, B, C and D) and three females (E, F and G), who have various nationalities which were Indian, Russian, Thai, Chinese and Korean. At the beginning of this team, all team members were a little disappointed with the negative results of some groups practice due to different organizational culture from members’ various nationalities. However, we made an effort to know each member with a regular meeting and tried to apply various HRM theories such as team role theory (Belbin, 1987), stages of group development (Tuckman, 1965) and learning styles (Honey & Mumford, 1982). As a result, we could understand members’ personalities and respect each member’s diversity, and finally my team has successfully completed many projects in HRM session. In this essay, I will discuss my own and my colleagues’ group activities based on team building and team working with HRM theories such as leadership, team role theory, learning styles and organisational culture.
2. Discussion and Analysis (Based on Tuckman’s Theory)
Adair (1987) suggests that most tasks need a team because one person cannot accomplish the entire task therefore working in a team is the most popular system to achieve common goals in human societies. According to Tuckman (1965), the team development procedure has four stages which are named: forming, storming, norming and performing, and the team interacts with each stage. Moreover, the team will meet at the forming stage and develop each stage again when team members change. In my team’s case, team
(A critical analysis of my own and my colleagues’ performance during our class based teamwork)
1. Introduction
In my case, human resource management (HRM) was the most interesting subject last term. Although I am the oldest team member in the HRM class and have twelve years of work experience, I learned many things from other young team members. My team in Gerry’s class consisted of seven members, who were four males (A, B, C and D) and three females (E, F and G), who have various nationalities which were Indian, Russian, Thai, Chinese and Korean. At the beginning of this team, all team members were a little disappointed with the negative results of some groups practice due to different organizational culture from members’ various nationalities. However, we made an effort to know each member with a regular meeting and tried to apply various HRM theories such as team role theory (Belbin, 1987), stages of group development (Tuckman, 1965) and learning styles (Honey & Mumford, 1982). As a result, we could understand members’ personalities and respect each member’s diversity, and finally my team has successfully completed many projects in HRM session. In this essay, I will discuss my own and my colleagues’ group activities based on team building and team working with HRM theories such as leadership, team role theory, learning styles and organisational culture.
2. Discussion and Analysis (Based on Tuckman’s Theory)
Adair (1987) suggests that most tasks need a team because one person cannot accomplish the entire task therefore working in a team is the most popular system to achieve common goals in human societies. According to Tuckman (1965), the team development procedure has four stages which are named: forming, storming, norming and performing, and the team interacts with each stage. Moreover, the team will meet at the forming stage and develop each stage again when team members change. In my team’s case, team
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