Assignment 2- Placement Theory and Practice Coursework
The key purpose of the work placement was to develop my professionalism and to gain transferable skills. Through the first seven months of my placement I have experienced many different situations of how ‘Johnson n Johnson’ function as a business, this has allowed me to experience, obtain and develop skills that I will be able to take through my future career with me. Also, during my placement I have had the opportunity to apply knowledge I have acquired from my university course so far and use this to solve real-life problems in the workplace. In this report, I will reflect the relevant theories that I studied about on my course and how I have used and witnessed these during my work …show more content…
Mental states are important to learning
3. Learning does not always lead to change in behaviour
Throughout my placement I have experienced the three concepts above, the majority of my learning has been through the first concept; observational learning. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory states that there are four stages involved in observational learning (Byrne, 2004).
The first stage is Attention, which is where observers learn when they pay attention to a mentor and actively watch while they complete a task. In the first week of my placement I was shadowing my predecessor, observing the daily responsibilities and tasks he did and that I would be taking over. Whilst watching I took many notes on how to complete the many tasks I would be doing, this is the second stage, Retention. This is where the observer makes mental representation of the mentor’s behaviour. Taking notes allowed me to express my understanding of how tasks need to be completed in my own words.
By implementing stage two, I had the essential information to perform some of the tasks I had observed. The third stage is Reproduction, this is where the observer performs the action that the mentor has been doing. There is often a physical limitation experienced during this stage. The barrier I faced when trying to replicate tasks I had observed was that I did not have the full access to the systems to pull the correct data …show more content…
Our sub team that looks after Ethicon is made up of three people, myself, my line manager and another colleague. We have weekly Ethicon meetings, where we prepare PowerPoint slides that we take into our Commercial Analytic weekly team meetings. These slides contain the successes for the business from the previous week, priorities for this week, ongoing project work and a business update. During these meeting my manager encourages us to share the work we have been doing and if we have come across any innovative ideas that will help us do our job more
The key purpose of the work placement was to develop my professionalism and to gain transferable skills. Through the first seven months of my placement I have experienced many different situations of how ‘Johnson n Johnson’ function as a business, this has allowed me to experience, obtain and develop skills that I will be able to take through my future career with me. Also, during my placement I have had the opportunity to apply knowledge I have acquired from my university course so far and use this to solve real-life problems in the workplace. In this report, I will reflect the relevant theories that I studied about on my course and how I have used and witnessed these during my work …show more content…
Mental states are important to learning
3. Learning does not always lead to change in behaviour
Throughout my placement I have experienced the three concepts above, the majority of my learning has been through the first concept; observational learning. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory states that there are four stages involved in observational learning (Byrne, 2004).
The first stage is Attention, which is where observers learn when they pay attention to a mentor and actively watch while they complete a task. In the first week of my placement I was shadowing my predecessor, observing the daily responsibilities and tasks he did and that I would be taking over. Whilst watching I took many notes on how to complete the many tasks I would be doing, this is the second stage, Retention. This is where the observer makes mental representation of the mentor’s behaviour. Taking notes allowed me to express my understanding of how tasks need to be completed in my own words.
By implementing stage two, I had the essential information to perform some of the tasks I had observed. The third stage is Reproduction, this is where the observer performs the action that the mentor has been doing. There is often a physical limitation experienced during this stage. The barrier I faced when trying to replicate tasks I had observed was that I did not have the full access to the systems to pull the correct data …show more content…
Our sub team that looks after Ethicon is made up of three people, myself, my line manager and another colleague. We have weekly Ethicon meetings, where we prepare PowerPoint slides that we take into our Commercial Analytic weekly team meetings. These slides contain the successes for the business from the previous week, priorities for this week, ongoing project work and a business update. During these meeting my manager encourages us to share the work we have been doing and if we have come across any innovative ideas that will help us do our job more