MHRM 6902 Week 7 Six-Category Mapping Pass Example

One Spreadsheet Asked to Prove Three Things: A Mapping Pass Across Six BASK Categories and Eight Artifacts That Gives Each Artifact One Primary Home and Caps Every Secondary Use

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Walden University

MHRM 6902: Capstone: Meeting SHRM Competencies

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One Spreadsheet Asked to Prove Three Things: A Mapping Pass Across Six BASK Categories and Eight Artifacts That Gives Each Artifact One Primary Home and Caps Every Secondary Use

Why Map Several Categories Together

Mapping one category at a time, as I did for Analytical Aptitude in Week 3, has a hidden cost. Each map looks sound alone, but when the maps are laid side by side, the strongest artifacts turn up again and again. That is what happened when I mapped six behavioral categories this week: Communication, Relationship Management, Consultation, Analytical Aptitude, Business Acumen and Ethical Practice (Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM], 2022). I first laid the eight artifacts selected for the portfolio, A1 to A8, across the top of a grid in the order I produced them, with categories down the side in the standard's order, so neither axis leaned toward a result. The table below records the grid after the pass, artifact by artifact.

The Grid After the Pass

Table 1

Primary and Secondary Uses of Each Artifact After the Mapping Pass

Composite generalist. Each of the six behavioral categories now has exactly one primary artifact; the domains are mapped in a separate table.

The Turnover Analysis, Before and After

Before this pass, A2 carried marks in three categories. Under Analytical Aptitude it was the primary artifact. Under Business Acumen it stood for my understanding of the cost of turnover, because the brief included a rough estimate of what each early departure cost in recruiting and lost leasing time. Under Consultation it stood for advising the regional managers, since they adopted the shadowing recommendation at two communities.

Seen together, those three marks ask one spreadsheet and a two-page brief to prove three different things. A reader would judge the artifact by its weakest match, and the weakest match is Consultation: the brief went to the managers, they adopted part of it, and nothing in the artifact shows my role in their decision. Driessen et al. (2007) found in their review that portfolios lose credibility with assessors when the link between evidence and claimed competence is loose, and an artifact stretched across several claims is a common way that link loosens.

After the pass, A2 is primary for Analytical Aptitude only. It keeps a secondary mark under Business Acumen, limited to its cost estimate, which is a specific section of the brief that a reader can find. It is removed from Consultation entirely. The staffing memo, A4, does that work better, because it was written for one manager, laid out options and led to her choice.

The Other Reassignments

A1, the onboarding rebuild, had been marked primary for both Consultation and Relationship Management. It now sits primary in the People domain, where Week 4 placed it, with two secondary marks: Consultation for the supervisor interviews and Relationship Management for the work with senior technicians. Each secondary mark names its part.

A4, the staffing memo, had a secondary mark under Business Acumen for its overtime estimates. I kept it, because the overtime figures are a distinct section of the memo, but I noted that it adds little to what A7 shows.

A7, the on-call pay handbook section, became primary for Business Acumen. Writing it required me to work out what on-call time would cost under three pay approaches and to explain the cost to the controller. It is still not budget work, and the Business Acumen row remains partly shown.

A8, the documentation training for community managers, moved from secondary to primary under Relationship Management. The training was built from conversations with managers who had been through difficult terminations, and the session notes show those relationships at work more clearly than any other artifact.

A5 and A6 did not move. The investigation summary stays primary for Ethical Practice, still as a description only. The remote work policy stays secondary under Communication, for its rollout email.

What the Matrix Now Shows

Each behavioral category now has exactly one primary artifact, and no artifact is primary in more than one category. Six secondary uses remain, each tied to a named part of its artifact. Baume and Yorke (2002) found that portfolio assessments became more reliable when assessors judged against clearly separated criteria; a grid in which each artifact does one main job gives a reader the same kind of separation. The cost is that some categories now rest on thinner evidence than before. Consultation, in particular, depends on one memo, and Week 5's discussion showed that the memo may need support.

The Rule

Every artifact has one primary category, and any secondary use must name the specific part of the artifact it relies on.

References

Baume, D., & Yorke, M. (2002). The reliability of assessment by portfolio on a course to develop and accredit teachers in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 27(1), 7-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070120099340

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