Preparing for a Professional Career: Challenges and CDP

This report delves into the critical aspects of preparing for a professional career, emphasizing the challenges faced by companies regarding working conditions, employee training, and safety. It examines the significance of code of conduct, government regulations, and professional bodies in ensuring ethical practices and worker protection. The report also highlights the positive and negative impacts of these regulations on businesses, particularly smaller enterprises. Furthermore, it includes a detailed CDP (Career Development Plan) outlining learning areas, reflection of learning, and future implications for career advancement, providing a comprehensive overview of professional development strategies. The report uses various sources like books, journals, and online resources to support the arguments and findings.

Preparing for a professional
career

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Part 1 ...............................................................................................................................................3
Challenges....................................................................................................................................3
Code of conduct ..........................................................................................................................3
Professional body and regulator ..................................................................................................4
Positive and negative impact of code of conducts and professional bodies ...............................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
Part 2................................................................................................................................................5
CDP plan......................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Preparation for a professional career is very essential for the success of any individual
and business as well (Bisel and et.al, 2019). By analysing the future growth and career business
can grow in the market. This report speaks about the challenges which the company faces in the
market. Such as- CSR, working conditions etc. and how these challenges affect the working if
the company. Besides this code of conduct has been mentioned in this report. Apart from this
how the code of conduct affects the professional body of organisation whether in positive
manner or in negative manner has been defined in this report. This report also contains CDP
plan as well.
Part 1
Challenges
The biggest issue in front of the companies is working condition. Working condition
states the working environment of the company, which includes training and development of the
employees and health and safety of the employees at workplace. It has been a challenge for
companies to provide clean and hygienic workplace to the employees specially the restrooms and
dine area, even in the time of pandemic besides this providing appropriate training to employees
so that they can adopt new technology in their work (Sevastyanov and et.al, 2020). So it has
become a challenge for the company to train and educate the employees about the use of tools,
techniques and sources of the company. Apart from this company has to look for the holidays of
the employees, in many companies employees work on holidays also so it is a challenge for the
company that their workers are working on holidays as well. Besides this in many manufacturing
companies, they hire child labour which is a crime, so is has been a challenge specially for
manufacturing companies. Companies must provide all the necessary safety wear to their
employees so that they don't get harm besides this company sometimes company faces conflicts
as well when the employees have to work in a team, this exploits the working environment of the
particular company.
Code of conduct
Code of conduct refers to the set of rules and regulation which the company or the
organisation has to follow (CODE OF CONDUCT, 2020). Government has set some lows and
policies whose aim is to protect the environment by the activities of the company. Besides this
for the working condition, government has set some rules such as companies can't hire child

labours at their workplace. Apart from this company should provide proper drinking water,
restrooms and wages as per the market trend. Besides this company should provide proper
safety wears to the employees if it is a manufacturing company, so that they don't get injured.
Besides this, company has to look after the training as well. They must get the training of
machinery or technology where they are working. So that they can do their work effectively.
Apart from this the working hour should not be more than the standard working hours, workers
and employees can't do their work more the set working hours. It is the responsibility of all the
companies to follow such code of conduct. To record the working time of the worker,
government has set some standard time of working which all the companies has to follow.
Professional body and regulator
To regulate the working conditions of the company, whether they are following the rule
or not, there is a regulation has been developed by the government called, United Kingdom
Labour Law, whose work is to regulate the working conditions of the company apart from this,
they regulate the relationship of worker and the company (Kagwi, 2018). So that no one
company can take undue advantage of their workers and can't bound them to work for long
specially more than working hours. The main objective of this law is to provide all the necessary
requirement of the employees while they are working.
They must get free time between the working hour so that they can have their meal or can
take some rest. By regulating the working condition, it will benefit the society as well, because
due to such rules the family member of employee will feel safe and employees also get surety
that their life is safe, at the place where they are working. The main objective of these lows is to
protect the employees from redundancy and harmful activities. Besides this the main work of this
regulatory body is to make sure that the employees and workers get proper wages as per the
standard rule and inflation of the particular country so that they can buy necessary goods and
products for the survival.
Positive and negative impact of code of conducts and professional bodies
The code of conduct and regulatory bodies have positive and negative impact on the
company (Antonini and et.al, 2020). The positive part of these laws and rules is that the workers
feel safe at the workplace. It will helpful for the workers to enhance their skills as well. They get
proper training about the usage of different tools and techniques, besides this they get proper
working hour and wages through which they may satisfied their needs and wants. But many

companies have to face the negative side of these lows specially those industries who are not
operated at large level and their profits are also not high but even though they have to provide all
the necessary equipments such as safety guards, helmets etc. to the employees. So it becomes
very expensive for the companies who are small in nature and they can't provide all the services
to employees (Worsley and et.al, 2017). Thus, they are shutting down or kicking out their
employees. In result they don't hire more employees and work with few employees. If the
companies don't follow all the set rules, government take legal actions against them, which is
harmful for the reputation and goodwill of the company.
CONCLUSION
After analysing the entire report it can be concluded that, the entire report speaks about
the challenges faced by the companies specially in the working condition. The entire report
shows that how the company is facing such challenges and how they are overcoming them by
providing all the necessary things to its employees. Besides this, code of conduct has been
elaborated in this report to protect the employees from any kind of harmful activities. Except
these , the regulation body has been defined in this report and how it is working for the benefit of
the worker and for the goodwill of the company as well.
Part 2
CDP plan
CPD PLAN
Area of Learning Reflection of Learning Future Implica
(Identify topics of learning from module) (Detail what you have learnt about the topic) (identify how learning will a
studies and care
Working condition
From the entire topic I learnt the meaning of
working conditions and how it is important for
the company as well as for workers. If the
working environment is good and safe for the
employees, they also put their full efforts to
perform their job efficiently. A good working
environment and condition promotes the
health and safety of the employees as well.
This will assist me in my care
As I got to know what should
working hour for the employe
be the estimated wages an em
receive so that they can fulfil
desires. I also learn that how
important for employees. Thi
not in my career but in my fu

Code of ethic
Regulatory body
After analysing the entire report, I got to know
that there are various code of ethics have been
made who protect the interest and health of
the employees and workers.
By getting all the relevant information I got
to know that there is a government authority
and low who protect the employees and if
employees don’t feel safe they can take
legal actions against the company.
My learning from this is, I got
knowledge about the differen
and rules made by the govern
the employees. In my profess
would like to work with such
follows code of conduct.
This will help me in my care
am well aware about the ru
regulations of government.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Antonini and et.al, 2020. Subpolitics and sustainability reporting boundaries. The case of
working conditions in global supply chains. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability
Journal.
Bisel and et.al, 2019. Encouraging upward ethical dissent in organizations: The role of deference
to embodied expertise. Management Communication Quarterly. 33(2).pp.139-159.
Kagwi, C.W., 2018. INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS ON
EMPLOYEES’PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS (A CASE OF HUDUMA
CENTRE-NYERI COUNTY). Journal of Business and Strategic
Management. 3(1).pp.31-44.
Sevastyanov and et.al, 2020, November. Organization of propaganda for the safe work
production of a signaller and an automobile crane operator. In IOP Conference Series:
Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 962, No. 4, p. 042036). IOP Publishing.
Worsley and et.al, 2017. A subject of concern: The experiences of social workers referred to the
Health and Care Professions Council. British Journal of Social Work. 47(8). pp.2421-
2437.
Online
CODE OF CONDUCT., 2020. [Online]. Available through: <https://www.fairlabor.org/our-
work/code-of-conduct>