In this blog, I will demonstrate how much of a role model I have been since the beginning of this term of my MBA at CULC, based on the behaviour description by CIPD (2016).
According to CIPD (2013), a role model person firstly needs to have well-defined personal values and always live up to those values. As for me, I value integrity and honesty the most in life, so I have tried my best to do things properly during my study by following the rules and never cheating. To be specific, in Employee Engagement module, our coursework requires sending a survey to people who have work experience of 1-3 years in 2 countries, and our group chose India and Nigeria because we thought there are a lot of Indians and Nigerians in CULC. However, it turned out that most of the Indians and Nigerians we know have less than 1 year work experience. Instead of cheating by letting people with no work experience answer the survey, I encouraged my teammates to try our best to fulfil the requirements, and finally e managed to get enough people. Similarly, I always comply with CULC’s principles of no plagiarism by doing my work authentically and paraphrase, cite and quote properly when using others’ research and information for my work.
Furthermore, I believe I am a role model because I admit my mistakes and try my best to fix them (CIPD 2013). In Developing People module, our group have a weekly progress report to submit, and tasks are divided early to each member for individual work, then sent back to me for consolidation. In the first two weeks, I consolidated the report at the last minutes that when I saw some mistakes by my friends, I had no choice but to change immediately for submission. However, after that, my group mates told me they noticed the changes I made to their parts. Because they want to really learn and improve themselves, they asked me to discuss with them next time and let them make the changes. After that, I realised my fault and admitted it, and started consolidating the report earlier than usual to allow time for amendments.
In conclusion, all of the above examples show how I demonstrated the CIPD’s Role Model behaviour during my current study term. From my own reflection, I learn that it is crucial to be a good role model, especially when being a leader, because my members are very likely to copy my behaviours: when I show my serious attitude in studying, my teammates feel more motivated and vice versa. However, sometimes I failed to lead by example, such as sending my part after the agreed deadlines or turning up late for team meetings. Being aware of the importance of the Role model behaviour to my future HR career, I plan to improve my time management – the current biggest weakness of mine, as well as learning from other great role model including my tutors and classmates to constantly improve myself.
References:
CIPD (2013) Role Model [online] available from <http://www.cipd.co.uk/binaries/Role%20Model.pdf> [16 August 2016]
CIPD (2016) CIPD profession map [online] available from <http://www.cipd.co.uk/cipd-hr-profession/cipd-hr-profession-map/default.html >[16 August 2016]
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