Ms Siew Beng bring us a different insight on the topic of Employee Management in Singapore. She will not only make us think about the employee’s perspective, but also the employer’s perspective. She also encourage us to use our working experience as an examples in the numerous topics that we went through. This allow us to apply what we learn to the real world, bridging the gap between the academic and real working world.
She will also share with us her experience, what she read from news or learnt from her students and friends. Because of her real life examples, i get to understand the module easily. Her timely choice of video also make her lessons much more interesting. She has the ability to make us think and discuss the different topics in different session, encouraging us to voice out our opinion and participate in class discussion. I feel that i had a better understanding of HR in Singapore context. She focus on local context but still did not neglect the global influence of the foreign countries, like USA.
By making us do an essay write up on a news article relating to what we had learned, we get to read more newspaper. Most of the time, she will discuss with those students who reached before lesson time about the current affairs. This increases our interest in what is happening in the society today. She made the lessons more interesting and not as dry as many would have expected. This module was known to be more theory base and i usually find myself hard to cope with this type of module, hence credit must be given to Ms Siew Beng for making me enjoy her lessons etc. I look forward to every Friday's lesson.
She offer her help whenever is needed and act more like a friend, rather than teacher. She is there to listen to us whenever we need to. She also leads by example. She present herself in a proper manner, speak proper language and able to manage her students adequately. Some students in our class tends to be loud, but she was able to control them and give other students a chance to speak up. She showed us what human management is all about.
Due to work commitments, most of us did not revise our notes after each lesson. Hence, she make it a point to make us recap on what we had learnt previous week and create a linkage with the previous topic whenever we start a new one. Thus everything just falls into place so naturally. Her slides was made in a way that we will concentrate on her teaching rather than merely read through her slides.
After the lesson, i feel that i am more capable of doing presentation or voice out my concerns/opinion whenever is needed. I also have a better understanding of my employer's views on issues and what is my role in my company. Hence, I decided to nominate her for this award that she deserves greatly.