Throughout the progression of this class, I took various assessments that measured my preferred workplace attitudes. Each assessment measured different parts of my attitudes, and behaviors, within the workplace. I can honestly say, I learned a lot about myself while taking a few of these assessments. This paper will better explain who I am and focus on the key assessments that I felt were important to me. The first assessment that we took was about my attitude toward workplace diversity. After completing this assessment, I learned that I am a diversity realist. My attitude of workplace diversity is straight forward. I accept the situation as it is and attempt to deal with issues as they transpire. Furthermore, I understand …show more content…
Before I started my career within the county, I knew little about workplace politics. My first job was in the United States Marine Corps. I served eight years on active duty. Within the military, there is no such thing as workplace politics. You do what your told and move on. After the military, my attitude quickly changed. I was amazed of all the workplace politics within the civilian world. I quickly learned, and adapted, to workplace politics. Due to my current experience, it is no surprise that I score high within this assessment. Within this assessment, I scored a one-hundred and five. This means that I know how to play the game in order to get the things that I need. With this in mind, the next assessment focused on my preferred conflict …show more content…
I feel that these assessments could help me manage people within the workplace. In order to manage people; the first thing that I would do would to identify all employees’ workplace attitudes. In an attempt to truly understand each employees’ attitudes, I would have each employee complete a small survey that is similar to the assessment that I took within this course. After each employee completed their own assessment, I would then carefully evaluate each assessment to get a general idea of each person’s preferred workplace attitude. This would allow me to better understand each person. I would be able to recognize what motivates a person. I truly believe this would allow me to be a successful manager and would allow me to capitalize on my political skills within the
I was strategic in forming positive relationships with all members of the Board of Commissioners central staff and all the staff members of each district and county division regardless of political affiliation or position. DeKalb County was a semi efficiently run government. In my particular office of District 3, the lines of communication were very clear and the operations flowed smoothly. However, throughout the entire county government office, it was very evident of the “game of politics” that was played among all on a daily basis. For example, on Tuesdays after the Public County Commission meeting, it was evident of which county officials were friendlier to another.
In a terrifying dystopia, “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” (Huxley 1). Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, shows the starkness of a world where uniformity is paramount and diversity is despised as the root of instability. No one thinks for themselves, but instead they simple echo what they have been programmed to say. Every person is bred to act and think the same as others in their social class. Diversity is shunned along with old world beliefs and conservative morals.
Diversity is a term that we are familiar with. It describes the differences between individuals and groups in terms of culture, nationality, ability, ethnic origin, gender, age, religion, belies, sexual orientation and social class (Clarke, Mark, Pat etal.,2012). At place of work, understanding and valuing diversity makes individual to sees differences in people as valuable and potential assets, encourages open dialogue on diversity and shares personal, and writes and speaks in language that's respectful and sensitive, encourages open dialogue on diversity. Understanding and valuing diversity is fundamental to all the other desired behaviours. Learning about others, talking with others, reflecting on your behaviour, and looking deep into yourself to truly assess and modify your behaviours related to diversity.
Angeles, Christine N. Student no.: 20160066 Case Study Report: Windsor Residential Care Ltd I. Introduction This case report will examine the effectiveness of actively promoting equality, inclusion and diversity in the management of an organization, Windsor Residential Care Ltd. It also contains an action plan regarding Equality and Diversity Strategy for the year 2014 to 2017 in order to bring an effective change in the organisation.
When beginning this course, I had little knowledge of the depth of diversity found in our world today. I lived in a small town, which acted as a shelter from the harsh realities faced by many ethnicities, but also prevented me from experiencing cultural diversity. With my lack of background knowledge concerning diversity, I would say that my level of cultural competence was nearly non-existent. I had never been exposed to any ethnicities, other than my own, until moving to college. It wasn’t until moving away to college that I realized how naïve I was concerning the diversity of our nation.
I performed the assessment on January 26th at 9pm, and the assessment is an abbreviation for "Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.” It describes people by dividing several categories such as “Extraversion or Introversion”, “Sensing or Intuition”, “Thinking or Feeling”, and “Judging or Perceiving.” As for me, the result is “ISTJ” which are introversion, sensing, thinking, and judging. The purposes of this assessment are to understand about myself, to build future plans for finding a job, and to improve my relationship with other people.
Hence, the aim of this report is to reflect over my current personal skills and abilities assessment with a particular focus on self-development to become a management professional in order to fit into the organization and to become successful. 1.1 Personality, Assessment and Evaluations Psychologists have long recognizes the importance of work in our lives and they proposed that, personality play a significant role in all the process of work starting from how people actually perform their jobs and the attitudes they hold about them (i.e. job satisfaction) through the factors that increase or decrease their
Everyone is looking for ways to get better and surveys seem to be the most expedient method leaders use to assess employees. Being able to utilize these tools allows leaders to look at a greater number of employees or potential employees. I have taken three surveys that will help identify my character strengths and weaknesses, as well as, my leadership strength and weaknesses. The first survey I took was Values in Action (VIA) inventory of strengths.
Every leader had their own special blend of perspectives and world views that influence their approach to leadership. A frame is a perspective from which a person views the world and it influences how they interacts with others. There are four frames of reference: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. These viewpoints are developed overtime achieving a more poised mindset and approach. How does each frame influence my personal leadership style and relate to my work environment?
The ways in which diversity can impact on work and work relationships: Cultural diversity can affect the workplace in numerous ways. Negative impacts can include miscommunication, creation of barriers, and dysfunctional adaptation behaviors. Positive impacts can include building a sound knowledge base fellow colleagues, which can make for smoother integration of the organization into foreign cultures. Many organizations have recognized that the workforce is changing and they are working to create a work environment in which diversity and difference are valued and in which employees can work to their fullest. They are dealing with the problems that arise when people in the workplace communicate.
- Ways in which diversity can impact on work and work relationships - The similarities and differences that exist between you and your work community may have an impact on your work. Everyone around you will have similarities and differences, there is a reason we are all individual people, we are all different and have something different to offer. Culture plays an important part in shaping a person’s behaviour. Cultural values and beliefs provide a framework for people to make assumptions about and respond to their situations and or circumstances. Culture also strongly influences perceptions and expectations.
In today’s era managers are challenged daily with disputes like ethics, diversity, working in teams, privacy, sexual harassment, and handling differences. Furthermore, these issues are discussed because they are constantly the debatable topics in the workplace. More importantly, handling differences and diversity is the current situations in the workplace. Moreover, a few managerial concepts must be considered, including selection methods, training and development, performance appraisal, and diversity management.
Today’s most business primary concern is retaining workforce diversity. Recognizing the importance of diversity in the organization and effectively manage to ensure the organization and its valuable diverse employees are growing hand in hand. Rising of immigrants’ employment opportunity, joint venturing business globally has equally brought an opportunity for shared values, exchange of cultures and intelligence to widen the opportunity for business enterprise and also a platform for employees to reach target goal.
We live and work in a diverse world, consists of people with divergent backgrounds with different needs and preferences. This multicultural world brings out the potential on improvement and efficient, but also comes with that are the challenges. Workforce diversity acknowledges the reality that people differ in many ways, visible or invisible, mainly age, gender, marital status, social status, disability, sexual orientation, religion, personality, ethnicity and culture (Kossek, Lobel & Brown, 2005). The culture of an organisation plays a big role in the performance and sustainability of an organisation, and it is also important to the well-being of its employees.
All students deserve to be treated fairly as individuals. When considering the diversity of the class members, we will celebrate the uniqueness that the differences contribute. Because I have high expectations that all my children can be successful, adjustments may be necessary because everyone is not the same (Burden, 2017, p. 115). It is vital that a spirit of understanding and edification is active amongst the students and from the teacher (Romans 14:19, King James Version) to produce fruits of mutual respect: reduced bias, positive academic outcomes, enhanced problem solving, and healthy group dynamics (Cousik, 2015, p. 54). For differences that stem from culture, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, the adjustments will involve bridging the cultural gap between the students’ diversity and the curriculum.