Curriculum Maps Paper

All successful organizations have a strategic plan to reach their objectives and continue to move in the right direction. As a school teacher we use curriculum maps that guide us in the right direction and help us accomplish our objectives of having students pass their end of the year test. Without these maps we would not have a guideline and could fall off track very easily. The same goes for businesses when they use a strategic HR plan to accomplish and complete large assignments. When a company comes up with a strategic plan they have four steps. The first step is the determination of the mission. The second step is an assessment of the organization's mission. The third step is setting specific objectives or directions and the fourth is

As a teacher, you must decide what you want to accomplish throughout the year, your mission. As a businessman you must determine the same. The first step is often the most important step. Without determining the path you want to journey there would be no direction (Organizational Direction, 2014). HR departments guide businesses in their mission. They help the corporation answer questions of who to focus on within the company (Mondy & Mondy, 2012). Curriculum maps do much of the same for teachers. They determine what skills a teacher must focus on during a certain time period (Jacobs, 2005). Once a business or teacher determines their mission they must assess the organization and its

The third step in strategic HR planning is objective setting. An objective is something you work to reach or achieve. Both education and business put objectives in high regard. Mondy (2012) and Jacobs (2005) describe objectives in the same tone. Objectives should be in writing where all members involved in reaching that objective can see. They must be measurable; an objective that is not measurable is hard to reach. Objectives should have a set time on them and be challenging to the people pursuing that objective. HR departments thrive in this step. The HR department has a good idea of the overall workforce of the company. Much like the teacher has an overall idea of the classroom they are teaching. So it is best that the HR and teacher to set the objectives for their respected plans. The HR department focuses mostly on organizational development and employee development (Lawler, 2012). Objectives are performance based, one must think about who is attempting to reach that objective. Setting an objective that is impossible to reach or too easy, could be detrimental to that person and the overall culture of your