Organizational & Human Resources (OHR)

Initial Reflection

Through this class I should gain knowledge, skills, and dispositions used in the management of institutional human capital, financial, and physical resources. I should be able to recognize that I bring personal strengths and can grow by challenging myself to build new skills. With that being said in this class I should be able to move from understanding to application. There should be shifts in scale, scope, and interactivity of resources. 

Organizational and Human Resources Competency Reflection

Throughout this class I feel like I have learned a great deal of information about the organizational and human resource aspect of higher education. I still feel I have a great deal to learn in my professional role. Something I learned greatly from this class is about crisis management. As a graduate assistant and reading about and talking with my mentor about crisis management I realized how important having a plan is when it comes to any crisis, whether that be something with the weather, a death on campus, or an active shooter. The plans are going to be very different depending on the situations which is what I think makes it difficult to know all the information and to make sure an institution trains all their employees on it. Through the readings and completed the workshop for the CIRT committee in my future job I want to make sure I know all the emergency plans and what my specific position will be during that emergency. In my graduate assistantship I feel like I should have known the protocols for bad weather, fire, and what to do in case of an active shooter or something similar. All I know is where to go in case of bad weather and to evacuate in case of a fire. As a student affair professional I think I should know what to do for the students. Something I took from the reading was that in case of a fire to be sure to check that all students have evacuated from your area. A few weeks ago, the fire alarm went off in the student union at UWL so me and another professional staff member did a quick sweep of the area we work in before evacuating ourselves. I feel like I am still in this foundational area of this as I am just learning the aspects of crisis management. In the future I would like to grow in this area, and how I want to do that is in my next position have a conversation about what my role is but also where I can find the information about crisis management and also provide to my students in the case of an emergency. I am also interested in serving on a crisis management committee in the future.

Through the Campus Activities Board, I have gained a lot of supervision, communication, and conflict resolution.   This is because there have been some differences on the team for a while and it has impacted the team drastically. When I began the Spring 2023 semester with them, we did some group activities to try to get to know each other better and see how they are all the same yet different. Through these difficulties I have been able to anticipate when there might be an issue and have been able to resolve it pretty quickly with the individuals involved.

I feel like there is still parts that we did not get to in the class so I would like to see how I can develop this competency a bit more in my future roles by working with my supervisors and those around me. This is why I chose my first artifact which is an almost two hour long workshop on crisis and information about what SAPs can do during different emergencies. I am using this as I am really proud of the work I did along with all my peers for this presentation. 

Final Reflection

There is a lot to learn from this competency. I feel like this class could be a year long with all the information there is to share with it. I have peaked the most interest in what to do in case of a crisis and what and where my part falls within those crisis when/if they happen. I find it very important to know this stuff as I went my whole graduate assistantship without really knowing what to do in those situations. I look forward growing in the future and asking where I belong in all of this to make sure I do my part. 

Something I would really like to grow upon is the staff selection and knowing what it means to be apart of a search and screen committee. I think it is important to know how to do when selecting the candidate for the position. I know there are some people who have had no experience in hiring new staff members who are now in positions that they will need to hire new people and I am just thinking how that can be ethical when someone doesn't really know what they're doing. I feel worried that might be something I am thrown into when it comes to a future position so when I am hired somewhere I want to be given the opportunity to sit on a hiring committee. 

For my final artifact I am using a professional role journal that talks about my thoughts about crisis management and why it is important.