Strategic Professional Development Plan

The PDP is designed to help you to relate the academic content of the module to your professional development and goals. You will use the “How Do You Fit the Design” self-assessment exercises included in each chapter of the textbook (Daft, 2015) and incorporate your reflection on these self-assessments into your PDP which you will submit formally for assessment as part of your portfolio. – Strategic Management Project (70%) Your task is to identify a major area of weakness in a unit of your organisation (not the whole organisation). This can be either in your own department or unit, or your boss has asked you to look at another part of a business, as an internal consultant. The task has to be organisation design related and cannot be to do with corporate strategy, strategic planning, change management nor generic issues such as falling performance, falling sales etc. Your task is to identify a major area of weakness in a unit of your organisation (not the whole organisation). This can be either in your own department or unit, or your boss has asked you to look at another part of a business, as an internal consultant. The unit of analysis MUST be for a unit of the company you work for. the portfolio is comprised of the following Tasks  A Strategic Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) – 2000 words excluding action plan, appendices but including references  A Strategic Management Project- 4000 words excluding appendices but including references