Reflective Journal on Career and Progression Plan in Business and Management

FOUNDATION DEGREE IN
BUSINESS AND
MANAGEMENT
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Career & progression plan.......................................................................................................................3
Skills Audit..............................................................................................................................................5
Self-Appraisal & Action Planning...........................................................................................................7
Skills development & work – based feedback.........................................................................................9
Analyze principle of organizational theory against organizational practice in achievement of
organizational objectives.......................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Work related learning refers to activities that are mainly used in the context of work to
develop student knowledge, skills and understanding. It basically involves learning through work
related experience. Development is an essential concept of analyzing self and helps in framing
personal reflection in order to recognize weakness and strength on individual basis. This report
involves several aspects that are the foundation of business management. it involves career and
progression plan, skill audit, self-appraisal and action planning that are useful to reflect
individual strength and weakness and overcome with the consequences that create barrier in
career growth development (Bachik and Kitzman, 2020) . At last it provides skill development
and work based feedback that support the activities of individual person.
MAIN BODY
Career & progression plan
Career progression plan refers to the process that is useful to staff member or employees
to grow their occupational status. It is a straightforward roadmap that provides the detail about
how an employee will grow or develop through company or organisation. This plan is mainly
shows the advancements and need of improvement by using action plan because it helps in
developing their skill and action so that they capture more opportunity. Here, a career
progression plan is presented below in case of HR manager:
Skills Need and necessity
of skill
How to get better
(action taken)
Time duration
Time management
skill
It is essential to
manage the time so
that project is
completed on time. To
become a HR
manager it is
necessary to manage
the time skills so that
To develop time
management skill I
will focus on regular
practice and maintain
schedule to complete
objective of time.
Hence it will improve
my time management
4 months

all targets the
accomplished on time
frame.
skills.
Reporting skills As a human resource
manager it is
necessary to prepare
report for
systematically
completing work.
To improve this skill I
will focus on regular
training and online
class that is based on
reporting skills
(Sadjadi and Menhaj,
2020).
3 months
Writing skills For developing
effective report it is
essential to have an
attractive writing skill
that helps
subordinates to easily
understand task.
By focusing on
regular writing I will
improve my writing
skill that helps me in
becoming a best HR
manager in an
organisation.
2 months
Communication skill Communicate
positively with
workers and timely
analyze
communication skills
which are needed by
me.
In order to get better
results I will focus on
communicate with
subordinates and
focus on reading the
books.
5 months
Information
technology skill
Today’s concern is
based on information
technology and to
survive in corporate
world it is essential to
have an updated
knowledge regarding
To improve this I will
focus on adopting
new technology, take
online and offline
class of using
technology that
develops career in HR
6 months