7CO03: Personal Effectiveness, Ethics and Business Acumen Assessment

This assignment solution addresses the assessment criteria for personal effectiveness, ethics, and business acumen, focusing on ethical standpoints, fairness, transparency, employee well-being, and professional integrity. The student critically assesses different ethical standpoints, evaluates business improvements, and self-evaluates personal and professional integrity. The solution includes justifications, linkages to evidence, and post-program CPD plans with SMART objectives. The assessment covers the maintenance of ethical behavior, the promotion of fairness, employee voice, learning, and the development of professional courage and influence. The student reflects on their competence levels and outlines plans for continuous improvement in areas such as ethical practice, communication, and team building, with the goal of enhancing their role as a recruitment specialist and contributing to overall business success.

Personal effectiveness
ethics and business
acumen

Assessment
criterion
(1.Critically assess different ethical standpoints on people practice and the
maintenance of high standards of ethical behaviour)
Competence
achieved, with
linkages to
evidence and
literature
Initial ability (scale 0-10) =6 Competence now (scale 0-10) = 9
Justification: I am much good in maintaining ethical behaviour in order to
promote effective ethical relations in the workplace. I am a responsible person and
I respect my ethics and team behaviour which Is required in building great
collaborative workplace. High standards of ethical behaviour are considered by
me which includes team building, trust, confidentiality. When I first indulged in
group work, I was not much adhering to ethical responsibilities as it is wider
concept. Due to which I was not much capable of about maintaining ethical
behaviour properly which resulted in my inability score. As per the theory of
utilitarianism, the right things must be done in the right situation which assure
that, there is capability of key behaviour to do it in right manner. Therefore, this
considers the interest of all the people and concerned parties. As a role of
recruitment specialist, it is necessary to promote better working environment for
the new candidates and make them attract towards the company. The more I will
be ethical in my grounds like giving all rights, equality and other benefits, the
more I will seek candidate’s attention. there are some threats which may cause
barriers in my work which are Some employees may not be satisfying with the
manager’s decisions Office politics may have negative impact. Some of my
personal objectives are to analyse and identify the standards of the ethics of the
company. Build relations and collaborative partnerships with the team and people.
I am much liable to give equal opportunities and treatment to the diversified
people. it keeps the motivation among others and ensure great success. It is not
able to handle every person perspective and assure team work. It is important for

me to enhance my ethical behaviour in order to promote effective relationships. It
is relevant to impact on self-performance within the workplace. I have achieved
much competences in my role by being informative and strict towards rules and
policies. In order to be accurate about the roles and development of key targeted
audiences and candidates, I have achieved a high professional behaviour which
has helped in communicating with them. Therefore, I have gained much
competitive behaviour which I will develop further through making plans. I have
to make sure that, I have to plan the professional targets in assuring key practices
which make sur that ethical practices are important factor which is going to
influence in the better practice. I have developed good ethical skills required in
job role as a recruitment specialist.
Post-
programmer
CPD plan Smart objectives Importance Actions Time
Specific: To
understand
different people
needs through
improving team
building skills
and learn ethics.
Measurable:
Through focusing
on team work and
project success in
the workplace.
Attainable: the
objective can be
attaining through
building
communication
and interpersonal
It is important to
understand the
need of people to
promote right
behavior and
right knowledge
for them. This
shows that, there
is requirement of
creating better
workplace
structure that will
help in working
on each
individual rights.
These ethical
behaviors would
help me to grow
I will continue to
take seminars and
sessions to
promote ethical
behavior. I will
make strict policy
and procedures
that must be
followed by each
individual. I will
keep all the
policies and
ethical standards
clear for all the
employees. All
these will be
updates and
regulates in the
2 months.

skills (Jewell,
Reading, Clarke,
and Kippist,
2020).
Relevant: It is
relevant to give
fair and equal
treatment to every
employee.
Time bound: 6
months.
in my own career
as a recruitment
specialist. I can
manage people
and their
necessary
requirement for
working in the
job role.
company for
smooth
functioning.
Therefore, in
order to promote
better actions, it
makes sure
working on the
actions which
accomplish the
targets.
Assessment
criterion
(2. justify business improvements in relation to:
• the promotion of fairness and transparency
• wellbeing
• employee voice
• learning)
Competence
achieved, with
linkages to
evidence and
literature
Initial ability (scale 0-10) = 7 Competence now (scale 0-10) = 8
Justification: In my own workplace environment, I have analysed that business
success can be done through giving effective facilities and transparency (Makhele,
and Barnard, 2020). I mainly consider the wellbeing and employees voice are the
true factors which contributes in the fairness. I have able to listen to the people
and understand their problems at workplace. The company could easily achieve
the gaols by giving employees opportunity to raise their voice. My own objectives
for promoting better fairness and transparency. It makes the employee voice and
learning. Make time for conducting sessions to promote better working culture I
need to Must ensure that, all the employees are working on the standards. Also, I
need to Conduct follow up sessions often. It is important for me to effective

engage employees towards organisation working. All the four factors play an
important role in creating business improvements. So, I have learned that the
recruitment specialist is possible for all these policies that would provide
employee wellbeing, give right to raise their voice and promotes learning. I will
make sure that, there will be effective benefits of every policy which will be used
by the company. In my experience, my ability was to intact the ability which is on
the score of 7. Also, the abilities which are on the basis of competency now that
will be beneficial to promote the concepts that is 8. My competency needs to be
much more capable to make decisions for the employees’ rights, policies and
voice. It will help in adjoining better stages of company improvements. With
evidence to own feedbacks and learning logs, I can easily say that my competency
is rising and I can make much more growth in my own performance. There is
need to get a better strategy to effect on the work place policy. It reflects that, all
these policies and rights will highly involve in the improvements of the business.
the companies can target their customers. This impacts on the wellbeing of the
whole workplace employees to hold a better position in the market. Therefore, my
responsibilities are to take necessary targeted growth for the purpose of targeting
and position the brand through provide customer services. It can be done through
getting attention in the learning focus of the employees which may enhance the
key impact on the functional area. I need to be clearly analyse the importance of
staff engagement and how they can find their rights and listens to the benefited
growth.
Post-
programme
CPD plan
Smart objectives Importance Actions Time
Specific: Identify
the business
problems which
has faced by the
employees.
Measurable:
Follow up
sessions will be
It is important to
achieve skills
related to
improve efficient
skills which are
required for the
company to
provide
These skills can
be learned
through taking
follow up
sessions and
listens to each
employees query
to analyse what
5 months

useful for
measuring
performance
Attainable:
Listens to
everyone and
make own
decision
Relevant: It is
easily attainable
through
controlling the
business process
regularly.
Time bound: It
will take 5
months.
employees every
right and policy
for business
improvements.
Therefore, it is
required to have
ability to take
business
decisions to solve
workplace related
problems. Also,
this will be
important to
control the
business process
by checking
whether all the
individuals are
following the
rules, pertaining
to policies and
keeping all the
rights and duties.
are their problems
and benefits
which they must
take and avoid.
By taking follow
up sessions and
communicate
with them, it will
have great impact
on the
organisation. I
will take
appropriate
actions to analyse
necessary criteria
that must be
provided to the
employees. I will
also take actions
regarding
employees in
order to promote
better work
culture to analyse
the employees’
role and
requirements. The
employees will
easily attract by
getting loyal and
kind behavior of

the employees to
be a part of the
company. I will
also make plans
and policies after
checking out the
updated sites of
government
regarding current
updates.
Assessment
criterion
(3.Self-evaluate personal and professional integrity in relation to ethical
practice, professional courage and influence, and valuing people.
Competence
achieved, with
linkages to
evidence and
literature
Initial ability (scale 0-10) = 8 Competence now (scale 0-10) = 8
Justification: In order to ascertain my own development practice in professional
and personal working to ethical practice. I am able to encourage and influence the
people to integrate with the people (Shariff, and Abd Razak, 2022). I can easily
relate to professional behaviour as I have soft skills like patience, communication,
honesty and politeness. I have attitude of providing prominent efficiency by
keeping track on employees’ performance. In order to effectively engage with the
team building. I can provide value in giving opportunities and listening to each
individual needs is the crucial factor for my professional development (De Bruyn,
2020). I can do the activities with myself as I do not require much guidance. My
ability to make time for learning to develop own skills. To improve my technical
skills, I need to take classes and courses that practice the tasks and be able to
ensure regarding growth and development. It is to make sure that all the activities
will be completed in an effective manner. It is important for me to enhance own

professional targets, learn skills for workplace. Some of my skills may not be
effective for the particular situation. I may lose motivation due to dynamic market
changes. In my own experiences, I have learned about the key areas of personal
and professional growth which achieves own targets and responsibilities towards
the areas of ethical practice. There is requirement of utilising necessary practices
in developing self-growth and raise own competency level to 10 score. It is crucial
to involve better efficient management strategies so I could manage my lifestyle.
For that instance, I need to work on preparing key plans and procedures that
creates better improvements within me. Therefore, it is necessary to help in
addressing all the key elements in assuring better responsibilities. This can be
done through focusing on the clear role as a recruitment. As per this, there is
requirement of key practices in order to promote better understating to drive
potential benefit about the roles and responses. Personal and professional practice
leads to minimise the effectiveness of potential activity which belongs to own
area. A role of the better recruitment agent must be derived through behaving in
the right way with right skill.
Post-
programme
CPD plan
Smart objectives Importance Actions Time
Specific: It is
necessary to make
CIPD plan to
focus on own
skills
development.
Measurable:
This can be
measure through
the effectiveness
of own working.
Achievable:
Plans for
development is
It is important to
analyse own
skills and
professional
courage to make
them engaged.
Therefore, in
order to promote
value towards
people. I need to
make sure that
each and every
employee. It is
also important to
There are actions
which needs to be
taken by me to
adopt necessary
targets. I need to
create an ongoing
CIPD plan which
includes all the
key skills like
communication,
interpersonal,
respect and
confidentiality
among each
6 months

relevant which
will enhance my
own skills
(Vallabhaneni,
2019).
Time bound: It
will take 6
months.
reach at the
maximum skill
development
which enhance
knowledge and
ability to start
individuals
toward
organisation.
Own personal and
professional
integrity can be
developed
through focus on
setting targets and
reach to wider
audience. There is
key requirement
of potential
targets which
makes sure that,
in order to ensure
about own
capabilities in
relation to
promoting ethical
values.
other. It has a
crucial impact on
learning
professional’s
skills which will
help in building
my own career as
a role of
recruitment
specialist. In
order to create
greater impact on
the better
activities for
keeping it real
and confidential.
It shows that, I
need to take
actions to prepare
time goals and
objectives. In
order to promote
better skills, I
have to enable
better responses
regarding
effective benefits
of necessary
areas. For that
instance, to create
effective growth

to promote
necessary areas. I
have to be
accurate about the
necessary factors
to enhance own
capabilities. For
requiring
effective set of
skills and key
performance, I
need to be
accurate about it.
In approaching
necessary areas, I
have to be crucial
about the factors
that will be
encouraging
effective
environment.
Assessment
criterion
4.Assess the impact of collaboration across cultural, geographic and
professional boundaries, including the value of embracing difference
(Aliyeva, 2021).
Competence
achieved, with
linkages to
evidence and
literature
Initial ability (scale 0-10) = 6 Competence now (scale 0-10) = 7
Justification: I may not be able to make good interpersonal relations, but I have
good sense of developing culture in an effective manner. I can bind all the people
together to work for one goal by giving them good instructions (Tarry, 2018). I

can create group meetings and activities through my communication skills which
will lead to enhance appropriate areas of learning. This demonstration of creating
awareness of the facts for creating boundaries and embracing difference. I am
good at analysing individual strength and weak factors though their work done.
Develop collaborative relations. In my own experience, I have gone through a lot
of cultural barriers which I have seen most of the time in the workplace. People
could not understand each other perspective due to language barriers,
misinterpretation of the facts, creating professional boundaries and creating values
like respect and confidentiality among each other. As being a recruitment
specialist, I was sure about workplace collaboration and ethics towards each other.
For that instance, I always end up by giving group discussion, conducting
meetings and set a strategy to involve employees in group activities by conducting
office parties, activities and occasional meet ups. With this experience. I get to
know that people relations are necessary to maintain which creates factors for
motivation and self-growth. So for continuing with good collaboration, office
parties and activities are must to be formal and informal relations that will attract
more employee to be a part of company. Difference creates lack of interpersonal
relations in the workplace that needs to be overcome. Do, I have to be particular
about concerning and raising the issue towards the differences created in the
organisation. So, I have prepared myself to boost my competency level which has
not took much rise. I have to Set professional boundaries for team members. Also,
promote culture differences and overcome barrier. In doing so, I may get some
barrier which may impact on my own development to promote collaboration in
workplace. These are some threats like The departments may create organisation
politics and conflicts, Undignified culture and chain of command, not focus on
particular goals. It ensures major decisions regarding putting right persons in right
groups. Also, there will be key targeted factors that will be easy like behaviour,
attitude and values of different culture that can be found through creating good
relations with the workforce that helps in achieving great response to maintaining
good collaboration. The organization has to put focus on each employee’s
differences and put forward the issues to take the recruitment responsibilities.

Post-
programme
CPD plan Smart objectives Importance Actions Time
Specific: I will
ensure my
presentation skills
to easily
demonstrate the
task to the tam.
Measurable: I will
measure
performance
though taking
feedbacks and
follow ups
Attainable: it can
be attending
through creating
better practices.
Relevant: It is
relevant to check
whether the skills
work for me or
not.
Time bound: It
will take Up to 8
months.
It is important to
enhance the roles
and responsibilities
to emphasize on
planning about the
group meetings,
quizzes and role
play activities. It
will be beneficial
to create
collaborate
workplace which
will helps in
analysing what
issues employees
are facing and how
they feel and what
attitude impacts
them. It is also
important to hold
better facilities in
order to achieve
the key practices
as a recruitment
specialist which
will shows that I
can grow on my
I need to take
appropriate actions
regarding making
collaborative
workplace which
helps in leading
growth. I will take
personal session
regarding taking
feedbacks from
employees, helps
in identifying their
thoughts and
values and
accomplish the
targeted objectives.
I will make sure
that there will be
proper
coordination set in
finding right
knowledge about
the goals. I will
better engage in
activities at every
weekends which
will help in
8 months