The ACADEMIC ESSAY will require students to carry out extensive research into key learning and development issues and produce a literature review based upon their findings. It is designed to encourage strategic thinking about learning, development and knowledge creation and management, and provide the basis of understand about how L&D contributes to HRM. Students are to choose research areas (at least three) from weeks 1 – 6 and will demonstrate through their essay a critical and analytical appreciation and comparison of these three key concepts, models and perspectives and their interdependency.
