ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT HRD4802 -2

3. QUESTION 3.1. Background In Lesson 5 a number of HRD interventions are examined. Because HRD is so important from a strategic point of view, it is advantageous to examine these interventions and see how they can be used as OD interventions to maximise their value. For Assignment 5 you are required to do a literature review. You can choose ONE of the HRD Interventions listed below: • leadership development programmes using 360-degree feedback • assessment and development centres (also used in leadership development) A literature review is academic writing that demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the academic literature on a specific topic placed in context. A literature review includes a critical evaluation of the researched material such as articles, books and other academic online sources. For more information you can watch the video titled “What is a literature review?” on the following link: Literature Review ( The literature review that you are required to write for this assignment will obviously be less comprehensive than what is normally written for a dissertation or thesis. The same principles will however apply. 3.2. Instructions Choose one of the topics indicated and write a literature review to display the in-depth knowledge that you have gained on the topic by reading various academic literature pieces. literature review should contain the following sections and headings: Title page Table of content 1. Introduction 2. An in-depth discussion on (1) leadership development programmes using 360-degree feedback OR (2) assessment and development centres Use your own headings and sub-headings based on the information that you want to convey 1. An explanation of how the HRD intervention that you chose can be used in an organisation on a strategic level as an OD or Change Management tool. 2. Summary 3. List of references 4. Declaration of authenticity Your literature, section 2, should be approximately 6 pages long. Make sure to use credible academic sources of information and to reference the sources in-text as well as in the list of references. You can use either APA or Harvard referencing as a referencing method. Your answer will be evaluated on the following elements: • Comprehensiveness of the literature review. (5) “Comprehensive” means that you included all or nearly all the elements or aspects of something, you provided a broad overview of the topic. • Logical flow of arguments. (5) There is a logical flow to the structure of the sections of the literature review. Use transitions, or connecting words, phrases and clauses to show the relationship between ideas. • Explanation of how the HRD intervention can be used as an OD tool. (5) • Number and quality of academic sources referenced as well as technical care of the assignment. (5) Academic sources refer to books/articles/online sources other than the sources provided as part of the course content. Technical care refers to the correct use of page numbers, headings, in-text referencing and referencing in the list of references. General neatness of the assignment is also considered. TOTAL: [20]