Essays on Personal Development

The teaching goals rated as essential are to develop ability to apply principles and generalizations already learned to new problems and situations, develop problem-solving skills, develop ability to draw reasonable inferences from observations, develop ability to synthesize and integrate information and ideas, develop ability to think creatively, improve skill at paying attention, learn concepts and theories of this subject, learn techniques and methods used to gain new knowledge in this subject, develop a commitment to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, improve ability to follow directions, instructions, and plans, improve ability to organize and use time effectively, develop ...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

Personal Nursing Philosophy

First and foremost, my name is.. My home is in West Palm Beach, Florida. Nursing is my passion and I find it very enjoyable to help other people on matters pertaining to their health. I started my nursing career several years ago and along the way I have learnt a lot about the profession. Therefore, there is much I can say about my experience as well as the profession itself. The nursing profession is not only about helping patients, but it also augments one’s personal development. In most instances, the profession calls for kindness, respect, ...

Personal Development Planning

Abstract Personal development planning is an innovative concept that was developed to ensure that the achievement of a student are tracked in a structured manner. Such a plan has been essential in enhancing their learning and career development, which are essential aspects of their learning and career development. Universities in different countries have facilitated students to develop PDPs, which are integrated with their transcripts. It is essential to note that PDPs have facilitated students to set clear goals that are essential in ensuring they achieve the desired objectives. Personal development planning has facilitated students to develop effective learning skills, ...

REFLECTIVE REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF A REWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Reflective Report: Development of a Reward Management System Overview of the situation The purpose of this report is to reflect on the organisational structure and management system at Sur University College in Oman. Sur University College offers a number of very important services to students and the community alike, but there are certainly struggles that the organisation experiences as well. The college is a diverse learning environment, and the organisation as a whole employs a number of staff, which often has a compounding influence on the overall fluidity and efficiency of internal organisational culture. Underperformance is sometimes a problem ...

REFLECTIVE REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF A REWARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Reflective Report: Development of a Reward Management System Overview of the situation I reflect my experience at TSB Bank, Benford branch in 2016. The bank was underperforming since the employees were unable to meet the monthly set targets. This situation impacted the bank’s revenue as well as the provision of services to customers. Even after several meetings between the head of operations and employees, the situation worsened each month. A team of specialist was set up to investigate the issue. I was given the mandate to lead this team, and our core task was to identify the problem ...

Introduction

The main role of the human resource department is to ensure that a company has a reliable, skilled, and committed workforce to deliver the tasks of the company. The HR department hires employees on demand, trains them for the various organizational tasks that they may be assigned and chooses to retrench some employees when such a need arises as per the strategic objectives of the company. However, with a fiercely competing business world, it has been tough for companies to retain their most talented employees. The current paper identifies the challenges that companies face as they seek to retain ...

Management: Performance Appraisals

Introduction Performance appraisal is a tricky process that demands the Rater to be objective and tactful in judgment. The Performance Appraisal Process in Coca-Cola gives the employees a chance to grow their careers and the company as well. The senior management is meticulous in how they handle the process. The report in this paper summarizes the process in four strategies that include, improving appraisal formats, selecting the right Raters, understanding how raters process information and training raters to rate more accurately.

The performance appraisal policy of Coca-Cola Company, the company I would like to work for after graduation, provides ...

Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the practices and knowledge within an organization that is concerned with the organization’s primary responsibility and employment relations (Redman, & Wilkinson, 2009). As such, it is a discipline that is guided by numerous models that include Guest, Harvard, Warwick, Storey, and Fombrun models. The Guest model developed by David Guest contends that the HR manager is initially presented with specific strategies which then create a need for certain practices within the organization in order to achieve the desired outcome. It bears six aspects that include HRM strategy and practices as well as behavior, ...

Introduction

The human resource department is considered responsible for setting the cultural tone of a company. They issue policies and raise awareness of the current workplace legislation and educate employees on the right way to discharge their duties. HR is also responsible for attracting and retaining high-quality professionals. Obviously, the workplace will lose its savor without the important role of the HR department. In today’s workplace, soft capitalism has been effectively wielded by the organization as an invaluable human resource management tool. Soft capitalism as opposed to hard capitalism is employee centric and has a strong relationship with emotional ...

Lifelong learning is a voluntary exercise to add knowledge either for personal development or professional development (Hargreaves 23). When I look back at my nursing career, I can view tremendous changes that have happened both in my personal life and profession, from my first day in a nursing class and now. The nursing profession involves learning about human body systems and how each organ functions. I have learned the kind of diets reliable to people of all ages, as well as how to identify symptoms and connect to the kind of illness they are associated with. Most importantly, I ...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Leadership

Trust be told, leader has a lot of responsibilities and requirements. For instance, such person must have a special charisma and feel the audience in order to gather other people around him/her. Besides, leader’s success directly depends on his/her EI level. In order to see this point clearly let us look deeply into this question through article that is presented as follows. This research was conducted by Sadri (2012) and it includes review of the several EI issues as well as recommendations for future leadership development. Author also raised the issue about origins of EI and its main ...

The book Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison provides a broad perspective over which a number of issues can be understood. The exposition of the story can be drawn from the point of view of the narrator who provides an in-depth analysis of major chronological events. The speaker aids the audience’s understanding of the psychological growth and moral well-being of his personal development. The nameless narrator tells his life story effectively making it easier to establish the appropriate cognitive progress of the individual. In general, the speaker transforms from a naïve African-American young man, growing up in a ...

Abstract

Dynamism in the modern life has necessitated for the development of professions to assist individuals to cope with life issues. The uprightness of a person cannot be achieved through normal upbringing due to life changes in the contemporary society. Life challenges require trained professionals to help others overcome them. Additionally, critical decisions in life must be guided by some principles as well as the individual personality. Therefore, the development of life coaching profession is a great achievement for the world. Children tend to encounter similar growth characteristics irrespective of the place of birth. As they grow, life conditions change ...

Nursing

2016-06-23

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the strategic development of the health care organization Banner Health Network and its readiness to change in accordance with the new needs of customers. Banner Health is a nonprofit system in the US. Twenty three hospitals together with the specialized departments are the part of the system (Official Site of the Banner Health Network, 2016). This organization provides different types of services in such states as Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Alaska, California, Nevada and Wyoming. The mission of the Banner Health Network is the following: “to make a difference in the lives of people ...

The cohesive and all-sided education policy in the U.S. and some other Western countries includes a strong focus on the ‘holistic’ development of young individuals, which means combining development of not just mind alone but also body. Therefore, athletics has been literally embedded in the academic culture in multiple levels (Sitkowski17). However, given the nature of the issue, the correlation and impact of both athletics and academics on the individual’s performance and development outcomes have been debatable. Supporters of athletics and especially intercollegiate sports typical for the U.S. education system argue that sport is extremely helpful in building ...

Analysis of GDP and Its Limitations

Analysis of GDP and Its Limitations

Introduction

Predominantly, economic well-being has great connections with social well-being (Easterlin, 2001). As such, most of the public policies that are intended to improve the social welfare are usually directed towards variables that indicate economic welfare. However, not all aspects of social well-being have direct linkage with economic wellness. Thus, economic progress in a country does not entirely translate to social happiness among citizens since some economic growth policies involve trade-offs between social risk and income growth (Bok, 2009). In essence, economic well-being entails a measure of economic wellness of citizens in a country ...

Introduction

The report is based on the ways wherein I plan to manage my personal resources. The paper is structured into different parts each dealing with a separate consideration. Initially, there is a detailed summary of results of the self-assessment test recently undertaken by me, which is followed by the description of future aims and objectives i.e. where I expect to see myself in ten years from now. In the next section to that, I have provided the details with regard to my plan of building my personal network that will be a source of support and information for me. ...

Abstract

Given that the relationship between music education and mathematics education has been speculated for a long time, the study seeks to investigate whether music education has effect on mathematics education or not. It is perceived that children who learn mathematics through music and dance tend to be more active, and would retain the same information well even by verbal instructions. Using a controlled randomized experiment, the study will involve 6th grade school going children from one city. Before the tests are administered in the factors, as music and mathematics, letters seeking permissions from parents will be sent. The letters ...

Introduction

The emancipation of the rights of blacks in the 18th Century was significantly shaped by a series of intellectual discourse and antagonism between certain influential figures in the African American society. Booker T. Washington was an accomplished scholar who rose from being born into a slave family to becoming the head of the Tuskegee Institute. He wielded great support in the Black community and even within the corridors of power where he was a close confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt. Within the same political dispensation, there was W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the first outstanding black intellectuals ...

Introduction

Contemporary Business Environment places a lot of pressure on the company with regards to sustainable and profitable development. In order to be able to compete in the international arena, companies have to look for new ways to differentiate and diversify their business. One of the biggest challenges for a modern company is to build on internal expertise and skills that would help this organization create competitive advantage based on its intangible assets and people. Individuals are subject to a variety of influences and the employment relationships are becoming more complex. Human Resource Management (HRM) is facing new challenges, such ...

Abstract:

This formal report focuses on self-reflection and the importance of personal development planning for students and managers. This focus underlines the necessity to define the concepts of self-reflection and Personal Development Planning and critically assess the ways they benefit students and managers. The report is divided into two primary sections: Self-reflection (1) and Personal Development Planning (2) that are, in their turn, subdivided into four and, respectively, three sub-sections. The materials used for composing this formal report include peer-reviewed journal articles, a book, and web-resources that focus upon the topics of self-reflection and PDP, their benefits and best implementation ...

Part 1: Reflect on planning and implementing a structured behavioral job selection interview including reflection on the Observed Skills Exercise practical application of behavioral skills Structured behavioral job interviews assist in investigating candidate’s future by assessing his/her past performance. The purpose of conducting structured based interview questions is to assess whether the candidate has desired qualities or not. The interview processes enable to get to know knowledge, skills and abilities of a candidate, which helps the interviewer to select the right candidate for the right position. In the structured behavioral interview questions, the questions are formulated on the ...

Advanced organization behaviour

Organizational behavior involves the study of human behavior in institutional settings. It forms an interface between the behavior of people within the organization and the organization itself (Locke, 2009). There are three levels of organization behavior. The first type is the micro level. This level involves individuals. Furthermore, it focuses on how the individuals interact with each other at the personal level. Various people portray varied kinds of body language toward one another. This trait can be visible from the way people talk to one another or make facial expressions. The second type of behavior occurs at the meso-level. ...

There are a number of values clarification exercises that help people discover things about themselves—their life, their values, and their work. One of these is the quality of life self-care wheel that gives a clear view of a person’s personal and professional life. The wheel of life is an orienting tool or a compass that is composed of the four basic elements positioned on the north-south, east-west axes. The four elements are values, relationships, work, and self-care, which are said to be “the primary components to a rich, full life” (Crowell, 2016, p.181). The four primary components ...

This paper analyzes how senior managers, line managers, and individual employees benefit from the successful HR strategy activities. Human resource department is vital in an organization since it helps these stakeholders in various ways; primarily aiming at improving the company’s productivity. Conflict resolution is one of the universal benefits that these three groups acquire from the various HR Strategy activities. On the other hand, the human resource requires support, collaboration, and tolerance from the stakeholders.

Senior management

Importantly, the top administration of an organization is the biggest beneficiary of successful HR strategy. Since senior management controls the whole business, it ...

How the composition of government spending changed since the 1960’s

Taylor (para 9) notes that a huge percentage of government expenditure is directed to entitlements as opposed to investments. Notably in 1962, the expenditure on investment was 2 ½ times that of entitlements. However, in the 21st century, the spending on entitlement is three times more than on investments (Taylor para 9). This trend attributes to the fact that most of the government spending goes to consumption, and only a few investments are made. In 1960’s the expenditure on entitlements was approximately 15 percent, but now it is more than half of all the federal expenditure. For instance, in ...

In the contemporary workplace environment, leadership forms have evolved so much that the bureaucratic forms have lost value as they had before. Today, leaders and managers are not expected to order and dictate while sitting in their high offices or to threaten their workforce. This has been shown to reduce morale and impact negatively on the ability of the employees to feel a sense of ownership within the organization. In the current context and the modern world, leadership is more focused on building relationships, understanding needs, feelings, emotions, values and beneficiaries with the board, the personnel and the customers ...

Leadership vision

Effective leadership is a necessity for every company, enterprise, or organization that wishes to prosper. Mainly, it involves being in charge of the other members. Although trait leadership theory suggests otherwise, I believe that leadership is a skill and one can learn it at any level. Leaders are not perfect individuals; instead, they are people who have committed to be responsible for a team. A leadership development plan (LDP) is an outline that enables an individual to achieve his or her leadership goals. The plan comprises various elements will help a person to accomplish his or her leadership desires ...

The social development of the current world has been influenced by the religious manifestations since the oldest times. Past and current religions have shaped societies as they are nowadays known, with religion playing a major role in establishing people’s morals, attitudes and believes about life. As religion has played such a major role in humans’ lives since it can be traced, it is no wonder that it has received considerable attention in literature. Three such literary pieces that explore the nature and the effects of religion on society are Emily Dickinson’s “She Rose to His Requirements”, Mohsin ...

The Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism

Executive Summary This essay explores the cross-cultural behavior in the context of tourism, including the issue of social contact and its measures, cultural shock, cultural values and the cultural model of the conceptual relationships. The subject of our research was the book Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism by Yvette Reisinger and Lindsay W. Turner. The essay seeks to identify how different factors influence social contact and actors in the tourism context. This information will be used to deepen the knowledge about the interrelations in tourism and to identify factors which can make enchase the process of intercultural communication.

Part one: the social contact in tourist encounters.

The intercultural ...

Research on psychotherapy denotes that there is a great degree of influence that therapeutic relationship has upon the outcome of counselling, although the mechanism that is used in the relationship that eventually brings in the change is unidentified. The desire to comprehend the way in which psychotherapy could help people change has been an inspiring aspect for researches and practitioners in the field of counselling psychology for several decades now. This inspiration has resulted in the accumulation of vast amount of literature, both theoretical as well as empirical, with respect to the various mechanisms that facilitate change in the ...

Introduction

Leadership is an important factor in the development of a business enterprise. Leadership becomes even more important when the business experiences growth. The growth of a business enterprise results in new and different dynamics. It is imperative that the business leader also grows in terms of philosophy and skills in order to lead the business under the new dynamics. Burke, Clarke, Barrow and Molian (2008) argue from a different perspective. They hold that during the growth of a business entity, a leader has two roles to play. Firstly, the leader needs to articulate the vision and direction of the ...

Development professional practice.

Summary document

introduction

The student development file is an academic document which follows the development of students in an academic field. The student is required to fill in learning log matrices in the course of the whole course which will cover each and every aspect of the course. The student is exposed to various finance and business course units which are meant to develop his or her professionalism in the field of finance. This is done through utilizing the student development file duly filled by the student and the various workshops in the developing professional practice (DPP). This course is ...

Greatest challenges to well being in the 21st century

Introduction

Well being can be defined as a state of existence characterized by satisfaction in terms of health, happiness and prosperity. Well being is a broad and entails various concepts that aim at development of quality of life of individuals such as career, social, financial, physical and community well being. Research studies reveal that approximately 66 percent of the global populations have attained at least one element of these aspects of well being, while only 7 percent are doing well on all the domains of well being. Any factor that serves as a barrier to achieving any of the domains of the ...