biabia (:

12 Nov, Thurs

Finally learned out to tackle this super hard to read textbook – Strategic Human Resource Management, by Mike Millmore et. al. It’s a damn gg book. The sentence structures feels like double negative and they keep repeating conclusions from previous sections… Half the time, it is not constructing knowledge and understanding in me, just keep beating around the bush. I mean it is a good academic book. But man, it is totally not an easy textbook to read. Usually I spend like one entire day reading a chapter of about 30-40 pages.

Convinced myself to try reading from the summary to have a gist of what is important and what is not. Wala! I sped up so quickly! In half a day, I finished a chapter of about 25 pages and found a related article and read it all (: So happy with that. Thanks to the tips from Edward and the lecturer.

Really glad I picked up a skill to tackle a different kind of literature. Searching for articles have been interesting too. We are required to get an article a week related to the chapter of the week. Of course I don’t do it diligently but I do it like half the time. It has been an experience searching for scholastic journal articles on the Emerald Management Xtra. I won’t have done it if I were in NBS. Haha, we are fed with most of the resources.. Don’t have to spend personal effort to look for more. Guess it would help with my future projects and FYP (: