1. Analysis of Interests/Concerns based on Theories/Evidence
Based on the Big 5 Personality Model and Core Self-Evaluation (CSE) theory, Alex is a conscientious person with high self-efficacy. Firstly, Alex’s high conscientiousness can be seen from that he always gets the job done on time and guarantees high quality of work accomplishment. According to the comments from the 360 degree review, Alex is highly committed and dedicated to his projects, and he worked tirelessly in order to launch products on time and on budget. Also, he is respected and depended upon by his co workers. Other employees believe Alex has a far greater grasp of products than most product managers, and his team is guaranteed to be productive. It shows that Alex perfectly
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The main problem is that he uses his bad temper as effective management tools. When team members disagree on his work distribution, Alex pushes them to accept the work without any negotiation. When people are not able to finish the work he assigned, he yelled at people and treated them disrespectfully (Betsy Garrison incident). In the 360 degree review, co workers indicate that Alex continually ruffles people’s feeling with arrogant and narcissistic attitude, and he usually made decisions without involving co workers’ opinions. All those behaviours increase work tension and stress the atmosphere within the team. Alex is cold to his co workers who don’t meet his expectation, noncooperative while people disagree with him and self-centered during the decision making process, which matches the characteristics of low agreeableness …show more content…
Instead of controlling and monitoring every minute, Alex should trust his team members more and provide more autonomy when they are performing tasks. In addition, Alex should recognize that different people have varying work capacity, and correctly apply Goal-Setting Theory to each team member. Goal-Setting Theory indicates that challenging goal will lead to outperformance, but there is a limit with respect to the complexity of the goal. If the goal is too high, it will give rise to demotivation. Therefore, an appropriate amount of workload should be assigned to different team members based on their work capability rather than keep assigning a daunting list of difficult tasks. It enhances team members’ self confidence of task accomplishment, which will dramatically improve work performance. Furthermore, Alex should perceive the internal needs of his team members, and then provide more encouragements and rewards accordingly to fulfill their needs. Based on Needs Theories, humans are perceptually needy species, and internal need is most important motivator that affects workers’ performance. However, different employees’ needs are different, which requires detailed
The lack of hierarchy in the Gore organization would best suit employees with a high core self-evaluation. In addition, employees would possess most if not all of the Big Five factors. The combination of these personality traits in employees will he...
Steps ESFJ’s can take to improve when working within a group are accepting constructive criticism. Realizing we all have areas of opportunities and improving on our weaknesses only make us a better person and leader. Learning to control your emotions, is key to being successful. Recognizing you need a moment and step away for a minute to calm down and gather your thoughts. Or take a 10-minute break before going into a meeting, returning a phone call, or replying to an email when you are upset or
First, one must identify the issue at hand; then, promote an open, honest relationship encouraging staff to be forthcoming with their perception of the problem; the team can then focus on coming up with a solution. Furthermore, enlisting a positive attitude, empowering the team, remaining active throughout the process, and demonstrating sincerity in the appreciation shown to those working hard during challenging times will prove beneficial as studies have shown a strong correlation with staff retention and the implementation of a transformational leadership approach (Casida & Parker, 2011). Utilizing this tactic will prove cost effective by minimizing cost associated with the turnover. The positivity among the team is likely to increase work performance, decrease the number of errors, improve overall patient
If I were Alex, I would use the amiable coaching style to help James stay productive and perform to the best of his abilities. One main concept of this coaching style is to connect with the employee on a personal level and develop the employee. James seems to be very smart, but he needs someone to show interest in himself and truly want him to succeed. When James was most successful, his manager was personable and was invested in helping his employees succeed. Along with being personable, Alex should develop employees and invest in his/ her future. Developing an employee should include training or continuing education opportunities that helps the employee develop into a well-rounded employee that feels comfortable with his/ her manager and organization (Aguinis, 2013). By a manager investing in the employees and of...
As Michael and Grover wrote: “The more skillful you are at discerning the feelings behind others’ signals the better you can control the signals you send them”. This concept is shown through: service orientation, developing others, leveraging diversity, political awareness and understanding others. (( Michael Akers & Grover Porter, n.d.) First of all, service orientation is foreseeing and meeting the clients demands in order to delivering right products to the right target market. Second, developing others is shown when recognizing other abilities and enhancing it towards the achievement. Third, leveraging opportunities is seeking for solution in a diversity environment, in order to receiving diverse solutions to solve variable of challenges. Furthermore, connect and communicate with the team to have the capability in reading the team emotion and power strong and stable relationship. The strongest team is the one that has sustainable connection where they can operate any obstacles usefully. Empathy is also understanding others feeling behind their needs to know that everyone is different and no one should be treated with the same
Cognitively, these behaviors may influence how individuals understand the characteristics of their jobs, as is the situation when individuals with optimistic core self-evaluation understand intrinsic job features more completely, even controlling for real job complexity. Affectively, these personalities might stimulate job satisfaction through their outcome on mood or mood at the organization. Lastly, employees who are emotionally steady, extroverted and conscientious may be better-off at work because they are more possible to achieve sustaining results at work. Part of this outcome may operate through job presentation, such that conscientious employees achieve better and are more content with their jobs because of the intrinsic ...
Teamwork is one of the important component that is required in any types of business organization . Team is defines as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to the common purpose, performance goal, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable”(katzenbach and Smith 1993) . Teamwork offer numbers of advantages like in teamwork work are completed earlier because large task are divided into smaller projects and then it find out an individual who is best for doing the jobs. Tasks that are smaller in size also need less time and brainpower then the work is less sporting to the people who are working. Teamwork also helps in combing the unique skills of people and makes them work efficiently. In a teamwork strength of different people are combined for the benefit of entire team and to produce better product and teamwork also help in building the unity among the group member .In a teamwork relationship play an important role because it helps people to communicate properly with one another whereas friendship helps in creating a job satisfaction. Support system is also important because if support system will be stronger than people will be comfortably depend on each other. These are the advantage of the teamwork but in teamwork there are also disadvantage like in teamwork there is an uneven participation of the members because they depend on other for doing the majority of work this can lead to hatred in the workplace. In a teamwork everyone is not team player, as they cannot perform well while team is working because they want to do there own so they might face problems to get fitted in a certain work culture, which will result in displeasure. In teamwork there is less creativity among th...
Working in teams provides an opportunity for individuals to come together and establish a rapport towards others within a group. Teamwork is classified as people with different strengths and skills who work together to achieve a common goal. When a team works well, specific objectives are fulfilled and satisfied. Teamwork plays a crucial role in implementing and fulfilling a common goal in a team project. Each member plays a role and takes on different responsibilities combined together. In different stages of teamwork, conflicts and arguments may occur for as members have different standpoints which need to be harmonized within the team. The key to having an effective teamwork is to explore each member's unique abilities to motivate them.
Creating the right work environment is priority number one for every CEO. Employees at all levels must feel proud working at the company and the CEO should make sure that they have the chance to feel that they are adding value to the company's operations. The golden rule of 80/20 can be a very useful tool to make sure that the CEO provides positive reinforcements to his or hers employees. For every interaction with an employee, the CEO should try to say four good things about that particular employee's work and one slightly bad. In this wa...
Depending on the interaction between the team members, a great atmosphere can be created. Each team is responsible for creating an pleasant atmosphere for everyone involved in the project. This type of atmosphere will allow the members to feel comfortable when it comes to taking risks in expressing themselves, advocating positions, and action taking.
Teamwork is essential to life. Throughout one’s life, teamwork will be used quit often whether it be because of school, any relationship, and most importantly any job. I decided to base my question off teamwork because it has and will continue to have such a huge impact on my life. As I aspire to become a nurse, teamwork will be vital in all the steps that are necessary in becoming one. On top of that, after I am officially a registered nurse I will use teamwork for the rest of my career. As of now, I am a full-time student working a part-time and I see now more than ever how important teamwork is. In my research question, I incorporated two factors that I think are the most important regarding solid teamwork: Emotional Intelligence and comprehending
Recommendation #1: In chapter 8 on pages 225 and 226 we learned about Interpersonal Relations. Within interpersonal relations there is Workplace Incivility, which is rudeness, lack of regard for one another, and the violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. With the arrival of new personnel the current status and balance of power is subject to a reshuffle and existing members feel threatened. The relationships among groups and team members are often influences on how employees react to other stressors. A Team Leader or Manger must monitor all employees when a new edition becomes part of the team. It is the job of the leader/manger to ensure employees achieve personal and organizational goals, maintain open lines of communications, and discourage any form of office politics. Any incivility that negatively impacts individual and organizational performance must be identified and dealt with as to stop any further incidents. The leader/manager must exercise team empowerment assuring all members perceive themselves and others as being competent and able to accomplish work-related goals and experience a sense of importance. An effective team with open lines of communications and clear goals will not feel threatened by any additions to this team. Group and Team building sessions should be utilized quarterly to build a stronger
By allowing for employees to be increasingly engaged in workplace activities, they are then given the opportunity to develop new skills. Most leaders also encourage for employees to participate in team building activities so that any employee would be more comfortable and have stronger chemistry when working with other members of their respective departments, and with other employees in the company as a whole. Leaders are capable of motivating their subordinates through a series of actions, such as words of encouragement, acts of appreciation, and allowing for employee involvement in key decision making processes in the company. For instance, leaders who appreciate, constantly encourage and assist in the improvement of the tasks performed by their subordinates will be able to build a strong and healthy employer-employee relationship. This good relationship instils the traits of confidence in employees and motivates them to enhance their performance. Excellent leaders commonly try to develop a dialogue or establish open communication with their subordinates. Employees who are well
As a type A personality I am always on the go, seeking efficiencies in nearly every task, if not attempting to do multiple tasks at once (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 114). With high job motivation, I am at the top of my organization able to influence and control the planning and execution of daily events (Robbins & Judge, 2009, p. 220). I am
Teamwork is one of the important component that is required in any types of business organization . Team is defines as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to the common purpose, performance goal, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable”(katzenbach and Smith 1993) . Teamwork offer numbers of advantages like in teamwork work are completed earlier because large task are divided into smaller projects and then it find out an individual who is best for doing the jobs. Tasks that are smaller in size also need less time and brainpower then the work is less sporting to the people who are working. Teamwork also helps in combing the unique skills of people and makes them work efficiently. In a teamwork strength of different people are combined for the benefit of entire team and to produce better product and teamwork also help in building the unity among the group member .In a teamwork relationship play an important role because it helps people to communicate properly with one another whereas friendship helps in creating a job satisfaction. Support system is also important because if support system will be stronger than people will be comfortably depend on each other. These are the advantage of the teamwork but in teamwork there are also disadvantage like in teamwork there is an uneven participation of the members because they depend on other for doing the majority of work this can lead to hatred in the workplace. In a teamwork everyone is not team player, as they cannot perform well while team is working because they want to do their own so they might face problems to get fitted in a certain work culture, which will result in displeasure. In teamwork there is less creativity among th...