MHRM 6902 Week 2 Portfolio Evidence Plan Example

Fourteen Artifacts, Their Release Status and the Two Bare Rows: An Evidence Plan for a Property Management Generalist's SHRM Competency Portfolio

Student Name

Walden University

MHRM 6902: Capstone: Meeting SHRM Competencies

Instructor Name

Month Day, Year

Fourteen Artifacts, Their Release Status and the Two Bare Rows: An Evidence Plan for a Property Management Generalist's SHRM Competency Portfolio

Purpose of the Plan

My Week 1 self-assessment rated each BASK row by the evidence I believed I held. This plan checks that belief against what actually sits in my files. Over four years as the sole generalist at Sorrel Ridge Residential, my work has scattered across a shared drive, my email, the regional office's policy binder and two laptops. Van Tartwijk and Driessen (2009) note that portfolios fail most often at the collection stage, when learners gather whatever is close at hand instead of what the standard asks for. I therefore inventoried everything first, recorded what I may use, and only then asked which competencies each item could support.

Inventory

Release status sorts the items into three groups. Nine are mine to use as they are, because they contain no personal data and were written for internal audiences that the HR director has said I may share in coursework. Four need my supervisor's permission because they carry figures the company treats as confidential, such as turnover counts by community or pay ranges. One, the investigation summary, may appear only as a description, since the employees involved were promised confidentiality. A described artifact is weaker evidence, because the reader must trust my account of it, and the plan treats it that way from the start.

Table 1

Inventory of Held Artifacts

Composite generalist and organization. Categories in the fifth column are candidates only; Week 3 onward tests each against the standard's behaviors.

The Same Evidence, Read by Category

The inverted table shows what the inventory hides. Communication and Analytical Aptitude each have several items, which matches the Week 1 ratings. Two rows are empty or nearly so. Global Mindset has nothing at all. Business Acumen has three items, but every one concerns costs or pay comparisons; nothing touches building or managing a budget, which the competency's business analysis behaviors clearly include (Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM], 2022). Those two rows become the plan's collection targets.

Table 2

BASK Categories and the Artifacts Pointing at Each

Coverage labels are my own judgments and will change as artifacts are tested against key behaviors.

Gaps the Inventory Cannot Fill

No amount of searching my files will produce a global artifact, because Sorrel Ridge has done no work outside the United States while I have been there. The company is, however, preparing to contract after-hours leasing calls to a support vendor based overseas, and the operations vice president has asked HR to help prepare the vendor's staff. That project is the only realistic source of Global Mindset evidence this year. Budget evidence is similar: the controller builds the company budget each autumn, and the HR director has submitted the HR line alone until now. Rousseau and Barends (2011) encourage HR practitioners to ask what evidence a decision actually requires before collecting more; here, the decision is whether I can claim these competencies, and the answer requires new work, not better filing.

Collection Actions

Each action names the person whose agreement it needs, because a request without a named approver tends to sit unanswered. The two final actions are requests for new work rather than releases of old work, and the development plan later in the course will carry them forward if they are granted.

Table 3

Collection Actions With Dates and Approvers

Dates refer to course weeks. Items without an approver are already mine to use.

References

Rousseau, D. M., & Barends, E. G. R. (2011). Becoming an evidence-based HR practitioner. Human Resource Management Journal, 21(3), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00173.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