Prejudice Can Be Hurtful and Destructive Example.
ROBERT KENNEDY COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA | ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORS | MID-TERM ASSIGNMENT |
2/18/2013 |
Question 1
Understanding Human Behavior is critical to organizations - discuss the benefits of self evaluation/self assessment as it related to leaders today.
Self-evaluation or “self-leadership” (Runn, 2011) forms a critical part of a leaders repertoire and some key blocks of the foundation for this persons leadership. If someone can ultimately say that they fully understand themselves, they will find it much easier to understand others around them.
Self-evaluation is an ongoing activity that leaders must use to identify their strength and weakness to work towards of improvement.
Kaplan (Kaplan, Robert S.;, 2007) in his experience has learned that the key characteristic of highly successful leaders is not that they figure out how to always stay on course, but that they recognize a deteriorating situation and get back on track as quick as possible.
Self-assessment and self-evaluation help managers and leader to get back on track working of the weak area and empowering their strength. Leader often lack to receive feedback, therefore they must find way to evaluate themselves.
Holmes (Holmes, 2012) identifies nine areas that a leader should focus and they are critical of a high performance work environment and enables people to perform at their best.
The areas are: 1. Providing direction 2. Problem solving/Decision making 3. Support/Reliability 4. Team involvement and Communication 5. Recognition 6. Interpersonal skills 7. Culture building 8. Coach/influencer 9. Personal Power
These areas are fundamental in achieving the good results, establish vision and communicate it to the subordinate. In an organization vision and goal are sat and when they are not correctly communicated subordinate becomes demotivated and uncommitted. A leader should always communicate effectively his and organizational
2/18/2013 |
Question 1
Understanding Human Behavior is critical to organizations - discuss the benefits of self evaluation/self assessment as it related to leaders today.
Self-evaluation or “self-leadership” (Runn, 2011) forms a critical part of a leaders repertoire and some key blocks of the foundation for this persons leadership. If someone can ultimately say that they fully understand themselves, they will find it much easier to understand others around them.
Self-evaluation is an ongoing activity that leaders must use to identify their strength and weakness to work towards of improvement.
Kaplan (Kaplan, Robert S.;, 2007) in his experience has learned that the key characteristic of highly successful leaders is not that they figure out how to always stay on course, but that they recognize a deteriorating situation and get back on track as quick as possible.
Self-assessment and self-evaluation help managers and leader to get back on track working of the weak area and empowering their strength. Leader often lack to receive feedback, therefore they must find way to evaluate themselves.
Holmes (Holmes, 2012) identifies nine areas that a leader should focus and they are critical of a high performance work environment and enables people to perform at their best.
The areas are: 1. Providing direction 2. Problem solving/Decision making 3. Support/Reliability 4. Team involvement and Communication 5. Recognition 6. Interpersonal skills 7. Culture building 8. Coach/influencer 9. Personal Power
These areas are fundamental in achieving the good results, establish vision and communicate it to the subordinate. In an organization vision and goal are sat and when they are not correctly communicated subordinate becomes demotivated and uncommitted. A leader should always communicate effectively his and organizational
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