MHRM 6902 Week 11 Final Competency Portfolio Example

SHRM Competency Portfolio, Final Submission: Cover Statement, Revised Category Evidence, Gaps Beside Their Dated Plan, a Traceability Index of Thirty-One Claims and a Permissions Note

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Walden University

MHRM 6902: Capstone: Meeting SHRM Competencies

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

SHRM Competency Portfolio, Final Submission: Cover Statement, Revised Category Evidence, Gaps Beside Their Dated Plan, a Traceability Index of Thirty-One Claims and a Permissions Note

Cover Statement

The mapping in this submission uses the BASK edition assigned for MHRM 6902 (Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM], 2022). Readers holding a later edition should note that it reorganizes some behavioral competencies; the category names used here are those of the assigned edition. My setting is a single HR department of three at Sorrel Ridge Residential, a composite landlord with apartment communities in two Southwestern states, where for four years I have handled every generalist matter for roughly 410 staff. The portfolio covers the nine behavioral competencies and the People domain of HR expertise, with Organization and Workplace evidence noted where artifacts touch them. It contains eight artifacts, A1 to A8, thirty-one numbered claims, two stated gaps and a development plan. Nothing in it is new argument. Every section is revised work from earlier in the course, and the submission's contribution is that its parts now refer to one another without a break.

Overview

Table 1

Categories, Primary Artifacts and Final Ratings

Composite generalist and organization. Claim numbers refer to the traceability index below.

Category Evidence, Revised

The category sections follow the Week 8 draft as revised in Week 10. Each opens with numbered claims that point to work rather than assert qualities. Communication, for example, now reads in part: "Claim 13: I wrote the A3 benefits guide in English and Spanish. Claim 14: After two Spanish sessions, I lengthened the dental coverage segment, since crews asked about it more than any other benefit." Each section then explains which of the category's behaviors the artifact shows and closes with a limit sentence. The four claims downgraded in Week 10 appear in their smaller form: Relationship Management claims building and teamwork but not conflict resolution; Leadership and Navigation claims managing the remote work policy, not initiating it; the People domain claims that the onboarding rebuild coincided with fewer early departures; and Consultation claims that my advice shaped one point of a manager's staffing decision.

The weakest evidence in the portfolio remains A5, the investigation summary, which appears only as a description cleared by the HR director. The Ethical Practice section says so plainly, and the permissions note below explains why. Van Tartwijk and Driessen (2009) note that portfolios used for assessment must balance a learner's reflection against evidence an assessor can check; where a document cannot be checked, the honest course is to say what kind of evidence it is.

Gaps and the Plan That Answers Them

Two gaps are stated. The first concerns Global Mindset: the bilingual sessions in A3 cover the domestic half of that competency, and no item touches cross-border practice. The second concerns Business Acumen: A7 and the cost section of A2 show policy costing, and no item shows a budget I built.

The development plan follows immediately. For Global Mindset, April brings a brief preparing the overseas call vendor's team, revision after two live calls in May and a short graded course in international HR practice in September. For Business Acumen, it schedules shadowing the controller from August to October and building and defending the HR department's budget line in November. A further action strengthens Consultation with a second advisory memo and conversation notes in June. Each action names its expected artifact and a confirming person other than me, and the plan closes with a review date six months after the course, when the Week 1 self-assessment table will be rerun.

Traceability Index

Numbering the claims forced one last search. Two sentences in the Analytical Aptitude section still made claims without an artifact reference, both about the redesigned exit interview form, which is in my inventory but not among the eight selected artifacts. I removed both sentences rather than add a ninth artifact at the last stage. Driessen et al. (2007) found that portfolios were more credible to assessors when the link between evidence and competence was explicit; an index is the most explicit form that link can take.

Table 2

Traceability Index, Selected Rows

The full index in the submitted portfolio lists all thirty-one claims. Page numbers refer to the appendix of artifacts.

Permissions Note

Each artifact's status is given before the artifacts themselves, so a reader knows how each was handled before opening it. A1, A3, A6, A7 and A8 are mine to use and appear in full, with one change to A6: two employees' names in a calendar screenshot were replaced with job titles. A2 and A4 were released by the regional director of operations and the Tucson regional manager, respectively, with community-level turnover counts in A2 left in and individual names removed. A5 appears only as a description, because the employees involved in the investigation were promised confidentiality, and its wording was cleared by the HR director. No artifact contains personal data beyond what its release allows. The appendix follows the format guidance for supplementary material in the APA manual (American Psychological Association, 2020), with each artifact labeled by ID and headed by its status.

Closing Note on the Portfolio as a Whole

Cohen (2015) called on HR to define itself through consistent, demonstrable competencies rather than titles or tenure. This portfolio tries to meet that standard at the scale of one practitioner. Five categories rest on artifacts a stranger can read. Five rest on partial evidence, and each says why. Two gaps carry dated actions and named confirmers. The development plan's review date is the portfolio's last claim, and it is the one most open to being proved wrong.

References

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).

Cohen, D. J. (2015). HR past, present and future: A call for consistent practices and a focus on competencies. Human Resource Management Review, 25(2), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2015.01.006

Driessen, E., van Tartwijk, J., van der Vleuten, C., & Wass, V. (2007). Portfolios in medical education: Why do they meet with mixed success? A systematic review. Medical Education, 41(12), 1224-1233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02944.x

Society for Human Resource Management. (2022). SHRM body of applied skills and knowledge (SHRM BASK). https://www.shrm.org/credentials/certification/shrm-bask

Van Tartwijk, J., & Driessen, E. W. (2009). Portfolios for assessment and learning: AMEE Guide no. 45. Medical Teacher, 31(9), 790-801. https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590903139201