An individual’s effectiveness in the workplace often depends on his/her personality, attitudes and values, along with his/her motivation to succeed. Concurrently, the perception, attitudes and values of colleagues in the workplace play a role in determining the individual’s effectiveness. Understanding these characteristics of employees can be very crucial for organizations to operate successfully. At the same time, it is essential that employees understand the values associated with the organization in order to avoid any conflicting feelings toward the work they are employed to do. By recognizing and appreciating each other’s characteristics and constraints, employees and the organizations they are part of, form a highly-beneficial …show more content…
In recent years, I have realized that my father portrays similar characteristics; he is strong, fast-paced, always wants his way and gets frustrated if he cannot achieve his goals, but still understands others’ emotions and tries to make up for his mistakes. However, I realized that such personality traits are not ideal in this, and over the past few years, I have taken to aggressively pursuing my goals, despite being pushed for time. I still do get frustrated when I do not achieve my goals, but I do not worry about how others’ view me and thus, have lost a bit of the ability to sense others’ emotions and feelings. In more general terms, I believe that heredity has definitely played an important role in providing me with strength and aggressiveness to pursue my goals, and influencing my reflexes, energy level and biological rhythm. However, concurrently, many aspects of my personality have been moulded through my own experience and my need to achieve what I aim for. Dominant Personality Traits. From a very young age, I have developed a personality which is aggressively involved “in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time and, if necessary, against the opposing efforts of other things or other people” (Friedman, & Rosenman, 1974, p. 84), which I have come to discover, is known as a Type A personality. Having a Type A personality, I am constantly striving to do
Motivation is the force that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied (or met) so that we have inspiration to complete the task.
We all know that a company that can build trust and bring about a rewarding atmosphere of personal appreciation and contribution will develop workplace norms and behaviors that bring outstanding performance from its personnel. Of the companies on our list the ones chose to research were CHG Healthcare, Wegmans Food Markets and Google. All three of these organizations caught my attention for number reasons, but what got my attention the most and really made me choose them was how they value their employee’s and strive to satisfy their needs. Most of us strive provide the best way of life possible for our families. When searching for employment people
Therefore, by implementing a shared belief system in the organization, we can create a culture, value systems and leadership styles, that will help align workers, with the values of the organization. Furthermore, managers should be supportive to all employees, and should promote a work environment that helps to build morale amongst employees; so that employees can meet the objectives and goals of the organization. It is my belief, those employees who experience a sense of value from an organization, are more productive, and creative, which will overall increase profitability.
While tactics such as financial incentives and strict personal conduct guides were once used as strong sources of motivation, the recent study and development of corporate values is proven by research to more effectively influence employees in a positive manner (Sheehan, 2014, p. 23). For this to happen, however, those in charge of the organization must continually communicate the desired corporate values. The more frequently corporate values are communicated from those in charge, the more likely they are to become principles held by each member of the organization. Sheehan states, “Principles help explicate the organization’s values…” (2014, p. 25) doing so translates the values into a set of positive, unambiguous guiding statements for employees. Sheehan provides certain practical steps toward helping create and communicate a positive, well-balanced corporate value system through principle. These steps include communicating principles, hiring new employees based on these principles, and monitoring the implementation and use of, as well as the effectiveness of the principles throughout the
Employees everywhere have in some sort of way adopted several characteristics from their work colleagues. For example in most professions, the individuals that are employed are all wanting to excel in their profession. Unbeknownst, they adopt similar values and behavior patterns as their peers. It’s true that work places consist
I believe my peers would describe me as ambitious, diligent, and levelheaded. I have a reputation for striving for achievement and excellence, and performing my best. My ambition is my driving force for success, whether it’s making the All-Region Orchestra, winning a test-off in Science Olympiad, or blowing out the class curve on an exam. In 7th grade, I demonstrated my ambition by earning the highest grade average in four of my core classes. Complementing my ambition is my diligence, another trait that sets me apart from my peers. I consistently work to achieve my goals and I am known for making sacrifices including missing activities with friends, skipping swim practice, and losing sleep. I am never at a loss for people who want me on their
The purpose of this self assessment is to help me understand how my organizations structure influences the personal needs and values of my coworkers.
One of the most important things a business needs to be successful is happy employees. It is important for employees and managers have an established plan to deal with critical matters. Managers must study the behavior of their employees to decide how they will achieve their desired goals. Organizational behavior is "the study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself. (Griffin, 2012)" We can divide organizational behavior in 3 separate categories. The first one is the individuals within the organization. The second is the work group which is made by placing workers into specific groups. The last one is how the organization itself behaves.
The theory of human motivation was introduced in 1943 by psychologist Abraham Maslow as the Hierarchy of needs.
There are many people in this world; no two people are the same. When considering personality theories it is important to note that not all theories apply to all situations or all people. Different theories have different approaches. It is important to know the person before making assumptions about the proper theory to apply to the person or in any given situation. The purpose of this paper is to analysis how different personality theorists could interoperate different individual circumstances and behaviors based on case examples provided by the instructor.
Throughout my life, I have had many situations where I was put in a group and had to interact with people that I did not know. However, these interactions have changed me as a whole. These communications also helped me discover my weaknesses and strengths. Through all of my group interactions, I have established the sense of responsibility, gained motivation and willpower, and developed a network of relationships.
What is a personality? A personality is a reflection of a person identity of a human being but we don’t share the same type of personality. There are so many different type of personality in the world some people have outgoing, shy, crazy, and settle personality. There are some people where there culture and surrounding shape their personality traits. In my culture and surrounding it has help me shape my personality in many ways.
Describe, compare and contrast one process and one content theory of motivation. Evaluate how appropriate they are for organisations today.
This is my story and it all starts off with young little me growing up pursuing different kinds of dreams. I wanted become a pilot to travel the world, become an inventor, wanted to be a spy, become a famous celebrity that everyone knows of, etc. Ever since I was young, I’d always like to be the competitive type to be finishing first. There were good outcomes and there was bad outcomes. It would help me try to learn everything as quick as possible to do the work and finish quickly. It doesn’t as sound as bad, but everything has another side to it. Completing fast did help me, but sometimes too fast wouldn’t get me to understand or to get the right answers. This did affect me to this day. It would cause me now to be an impatient guy and have things done quickly or not have the patience.Just the thought of being first and getting many things right would get my parents to be proud of me. My parents are always my number one supporters and they always want the best for me just like any other parent would want from their child. I have always appreciated everything my parents have done. They’d always provide food, shelter, necessities, basically everything and I couldn’t ask for anything better.
Countless studies and meta-analysis have been done on the effect of the individual personality on success, whether it be within the workplace or an educational institute (ETS, 2016).