Professional development in an educational organisation
Inget, Riku (2024)
2024
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024053018369
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This thesis aims to observe the author's professional development progress as a Faculty Technician at a private school in the Middle East. This report was administered in a diary thesis format with a reporting period of seven weeks.
The report contains an introduction and a description of the current situation, which consists of four parts: analysis of current work and task description, workweek structure, stakeholders and workplace interactions. This is followed by seven weeks of diary entries that reflect the challenges, findings and an analysis of tasks completed during the week. The report ends with a conclusion part where reflection on development is robustly discussed. The report includes selected themes that the author has identified as opportunities for professional development. These include cross-cultural communication that is analysed by using Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory and The Lewis Model of cultural types. The theme of time management is trialled with the application to daily tasks by the theoretical framework of the Eisenhower Matrix. The third theme involves work in the design technology workspace where safety standards are reviewed with risk assessment and a service plan for a laser cutter is created by the use of manuals and guidebooks.
The aim of the thesis is professional development and this includes the author's desire to understand better the dominant cultural behaviours present at the educational organisation. The author's objective of time management is to find ways of completing tasks more efficiently in order to have a better work-life balance. The design technology workspace review is to give the author a detailed understanding of safety expectations and to develop processes that are beneficial for the organisation.
The author was able to gain professional development as by the end of the seven weeks of reporting, it was evident that better cultural awareness was gained and increased efficiency of task prioritisation. The author's results indicate that improved competence in current duties was achieved by applying the theoretical frameworks and by trialling new methods to operate.
The report contains an introduction and a description of the current situation, which consists of four parts: analysis of current work and task description, workweek structure, stakeholders and workplace interactions. This is followed by seven weeks of diary entries that reflect the challenges, findings and an analysis of tasks completed during the week. The report ends with a conclusion part where reflection on development is robustly discussed. The report includes selected themes that the author has identified as opportunities for professional development. These include cross-cultural communication that is analysed by using Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory and The Lewis Model of cultural types. The theme of time management is trialled with the application to daily tasks by the theoretical framework of the Eisenhower Matrix. The third theme involves work in the design technology workspace where safety standards are reviewed with risk assessment and a service plan for a laser cutter is created by the use of manuals and guidebooks.
The aim of the thesis is professional development and this includes the author's desire to understand better the dominant cultural behaviours present at the educational organisation. The author's objective of time management is to find ways of completing tasks more efficiently in order to have a better work-life balance. The design technology workspace review is to give the author a detailed understanding of safety expectations and to develop processes that are beneficial for the organisation.
The author was able to gain professional development as by the end of the seven weeks of reporting, it was evident that better cultural awareness was gained and increased efficiency of task prioritisation. The author's results indicate that improved competence in current duties was achieved by applying the theoretical frameworks and by trialling new methods to operate.