Personal management development plan
Format MLA
Volume of 10 pages (2750 words)
Type of service: Custom writing
Assignment type : Research Paper
Update for Developing Your Personal Management Development Plan
(PMDP)
ASSIGNMENT BACKGROUND AND REQUIREMENTS
The Personal Management Development Plan provides a vehicle for each student to shape their insights
into their preparedness for advancing in the world of management. Combined with the Assessments
done throughout the course in MindTap, the assignment represents 15% of each student’s grade in BUS
160, a major portion.
Shown below is a listing of all of the assessments for each chapter, plus some others from the text and
recommended online. Student scoring the highest grades on their report, do all of the assessments and
exercises and write a great report that ties it all together and creates a holistic picture of the student’s
thinking on their management future.
The final report is to be uploaded to Canvas and a hard copy turned into class on the due date.
MINDTAP ASSESSMENTS TO BE CONDUCTED
Note, the below Assessments are from the 13th edition of the Daft text as reflected in MindTap.
I. INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Chapter 1 – Innovative Management for a Changing World
1. Are You a Winner?
2. How Do You Manage Your Time?
Chapter 2 – The Evolution of Management
3. Are You a New Style Manager?
4. What is Your Manager Frame?
II. THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGEMENT
Chapter 3 – The Environment and Corporate Culture
5. Are You Suited for Managerial Uncertainty?
6. What is Your Culture Preference?
Chapter 4 – Managing in a Global Environment
7. Are You Ready to Manage Internationally?
8. Are You Culturally Intelligent?
Chapter 5 – Managing Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
9. What is Your Level of Ethical Maturity?
10. Are You a Giver or Taker?
Chapter 6 – Managing Small Business Startups
11. Do You Think Like an Entrepreneur?
12. Do You Make Presentations with Passion?
III. PLANNNING
Chapter 7 – Managerial Planning and Goal Setting
13. Does Goal Setting Fit Your Style?
14. How Do You Study?
Chapter 8 – Strategy Formulation and Execution
15. What is Your Strategy Strength?
16. How Do You Study, Part II?
Chapter 9 – Managerial Decision-Making
17. How Do You Make Decisions?
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18. How Do You Make Important Decisions?
IV. ORGANIZING
Chapter 10 – Designing Adaptive Organizations
19. What Are Your Beliefs About Leadership?
20. What Kind of Authority Did Your Parents Use?
Chapter 11 – Managing Change and Innovation
21. Do You Have True Grit?
22. How Creative Are You?
Chapter 12 – Managing Human Resources
23. Will You Get the Right People on the Bus?
24. What is Your Focus?
Chapter 13 – Managing Diversity
25. Do You Have a Gender and Authority Bias?
26. What Are Your Workplace Diversity Values?
Chapter 14 – Understanding Individual Behavior
27. Are You Self-Confident?
28. Can You Express Emotions?
In addition to the two Assessments in MindTap for Chapter 14, there are 6 other assessments that students are to take. By doing these added assessments, students will gain a much deeper understanding of themselves. The additional assessments are the following:
14.2 Rate Your Job Satisfaction
14.5 How Accurate is Your Perception?
14.6 The Big Five Personality Factors
14.7 Measuring Locus of Control
14.8 What’s Your Mach?
Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Some students have taken the Myer’s Briggs test. If so you can add this to your PMDP assessments. If you have not taken it, you can go to mbtionline.com to take an official version at $49.95. There are also free abbreviated versions, but still provide valuable personality insights by doing a search for free MBTIs. One of these is at https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test.
Chapter 15: Leadership
29. What’s Your Personal Style?
30. What is Your Follower Style?
Chapter 16: Motivating Employees
31. What Motivates You?
32. Do You Have a Need for Achievement, Affiliation, or Power?
Chapter 17: Managing Communications
33. Do You Focus on What Others Say?
34. Are You Building a Personal Network? Apply
Chapter 18 – Leading Teams
35. How Do You Like to Work?
36. What Team Role Do You Play?
VI. CONTROLLING
Chapter 19 – Managing Quality and Performance
37. What is Your Attitude Toward Improvement?
38. Do You Prefer Organizational Regulation and Control?
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FORMATING YOUR PERSONAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Below is the recommended format for organizing each student’s Personal Management Development Plan (PMDP).
Cover Page
Table of Contents
1. Introduction of Report
2. Personal Background
2. My Career Objectives
3. Where I See My Management Strengths
4. Where I See My Management Weaknesses
5. New Insights Gained from Assessments Conducted
6. Management Areas Where I Need to Improve
7. Personal Actions I Plan to Take to Improve My Management Capabilities
8. Summary and Conclusions
Appendix
A. Exercises Performed and Summary of Results
B. Bibliography or references if additional research was conducted
The length of the report may vary. However, the average report should be approximately 10 pages of double spaced text with a 11 or 12-point font.
COMMENTS ON REPORT COVERAGE AND CONTENT
Students have a lot of freedom in formatting their report, but the below are suggestions derived from reading a large number of student reports and in seeing the key areas that make for a great report and top grade.
Cover Page – The best reports have a cover page that says something about the author. Having a picture of the student on the cover is a great way to showcase your work. You can also add some insightful graphics or a quotation that help to capture YOU.
Table of Contents – The table of contents should reflect the organization of the report and tell the reader what is to follow. Use of the tool in Microsoft Word and other word processing programs will produce a professional looking table of contents.
Introduction – This short section should convey to the reader what the report is about.
Personal Background – This section sets the stage for the report and the student’s reflective thinking by taking a look at their past. You can discuss all that provides a picture of who you are. This can include where you grew up, family and friends, school, hobbies, hopes and dreams, things you have always been at and the weaknesses you have.
My Career Objectives – Next discuss where you want your life to go in terms of future career aspirations. Many students are candidly not sure and are still in the exploration phase. That is fine.
Where I See My Management Strengths – In terms of where you see yourself now, what do you see as basic managerial strengths? For instance, you may be very good with people or have an analytical mind, or may be good at planning.
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Where I See My Management Weaknesses – We all have weaknesses and what are yours in terms of managing people?
New Insights Gained from the Assessments – This is the part of the report where you begin to really look forward in terms of what you learned from the assessments completed. The best reports will highlight the specific exercise and what was a big surprise or important confirmation.
Management Areas Where I Need to Improve – Now having looked back at your life and most importantly gained new insights from the assessments and exercises conducted, what do you see as the improvement actions that are appropriate in developing a more meaningful management future?
Personal Actions I Plan to Take to Improve My Management Capabilities – Finally, what are the concrete actions you plan to take to forge new management capabilities for the future? There are a host of possibilities, e.g. applying for an internship, joining Toastmasters, taking certain elective courses, finding a mentor, and on and on.
Summary and Conclusions – This final section wraps up your report and reflects on what you have just achieved in developing your Personal Management Development Plan.
Appendix – The Appendix should list all exercises conducted with a brief summary of the results. This summary discussion is most important to your report. It should reflect some detail on each exercise conducted and what it means. Most students can achieve a very meaningful summary in 1 to 2 inches of single-spaced text. Also to be included in the Appendix is a list of sources if any outside research was conducted. Also if an interview was conducted, you can include such information as to the questions asked and responses.
GRADING OF REPORT
Grades for this portion of the course are often quite high. The reason is that the subject is the most interesting and important to most students as it is about YOU. The key to getting a high grade on the assignment is to start early and do the exercises and assessments along with reading and studying each chapter. Below is the rubric that is used for grading each student’s PMDP report.
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PERSONAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PLAN Rubric
A=Superior/Exceeds Expectations; B=Very Good/Meets Expectations; C=Average/Could Improve D/F=Deficient
Criteria:
A
B
C
D/F
Comments
1. The report was well-organized with strong visual appeal (e.g. attractive cover, proper table of contents, good formatting, headings, proper use of paragraphs, easy to follow, proper appendix).
2. A maximum number of Self-Assessment exercises were completed, 44 in all, with meaningful summaries and reflections on the results.
3. The report reflected an engaging discussion of:
a. Student’s background
b. New insights gained from the Assessment conducted, and these were integrated into a thoughtful discussion.
c. A forward looking plan for the future in terms of avenues for self-improvement of management capabilities was provided.
4. The writing was interesting, engaging, professional and grammatically correct (and flowed well from section to section.)
5. If any research was conducted, e.g. interviewing techniques or career choices, these are cited per the APA style.
6. Overall quality of the report
