Essays on Personal Growth

Ethical standards and codes of conduct offer opportunities for personal honesty and academic freedom of thought and expression (Exposito et al. 8; Quick and Goolsby 3). In this regard, ethics and the honor code allow taking a responsibility for the way of thinking, conduct, attitude toward others, and obtaining the relevant support. These are evidences of personal and academic integrity among students. The both types of integrity are interrelated as they concentrate on the state of being whole in everyday and academic contexts. As regards personal integrity, it centers of individual strengths to succeed in life. Quick and Goolsby ...

The healthcare system is currently undergoing a series of transformations that are affecting all the aspects of care. These transformations have fuelled the identification of the important role of nurses in healthcare. In the past, nurses have been sidelined as assistants to physicians, rather than partners in care with other health care professionals (The National Academies Press, 2010). A report by the IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed that if the nurses are allowed to practice to the full extent of their training and expertise, they could offer pertinent expertise needed to sustain the current changes in ...

HR CULTURE-CROSS HR STRATEGIES

Hofstede came up with the cultural dimensions which are still being practiced today as a pre-requisite to the understanding of the concept of cross cultural communication. These dimensions are also said to have a strong influence on the values of members of a society and also on how these values link to the behavior. Cultural dimensions give insight into how organizations and businesses would make policies for a specific location. The six dimensions of culture include power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence (Hofstede, 1984; Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, 1991). Before actually relating these dimensions ...

It’s always difficult to analyze yourself from the side and talk not only about your strengths but your weaknesses as well. Having studied computer science as a major, I should say that I’ve improved my computer skills and got advanced knowledge of Microsoft office, in particular, I perfectly know all possibilities of PowerPoint. Moreover, I enhanced my knowledge in video editing and picture design. Now I’m an advanced user of related programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw, etc. I like this feeling when you can clearly see your development and personal growth as professional. Obviously, I ...

Critical thinking is essential to the life of a successful leader. Leaders all over the world must employ critical thinking into their way of leadership to enable them to make the best decisions. Critical thinking can help leaders avoid risky situations and potential loses for the company. Global leaders need to use critical thinking and adapt such skills where they lack so that they can be able to adapt to the ever-changing business conditions. Flexibility in critical thinking is important since the economy and the business environments are ever changing, and business needs to survive these harsh conditions. There ...

For any company to succeed, it has to make sure that all its employees are motivated and happy. Because every employee is different and therefore requires different methods of motivation to be effective, the management has to figure out ways of motivating its human resource. It is the responsibility of the leaders of the organization to motivate its workers to reach their maximum potential. It, however, has been a challenge for the managers and executives to motivate employees. This is because it is hard to understand the aspects that constitute motivation. We did an interview with three managers of ...

Discuss the intake interview process. In your discussion be sure to include examples of questions that should be asked during the intake interview. Intake interviews are important to the counseling session between the client and the counselor as the process is the first interactive experience that occurs between the client and the clinician. Clinical psychologists often use the process to initiate the discussions at the first meeting between the client and the clinician. The intake interview is important as the clinician gets the opportunity to highlight the expectations of the interview and the amount of time that the interview ...

Importance of Studying Organizational Behavior

One of the tasks of human resource managers is to ensure that employee relations are healthy. This is the only way that such employees will be satisfied, and as a result, make use of their potential. A working environment where employees do not relate well is a catalyst for failure. This is where organizational behavior comes in. The study of organizational behavior entails learning the relations between an organization and individuals in the organization. In most cases, this study is undertaken in various levels, including the individual level, interpersonal levels, groups and organizations. Organizational behavior helps analyze the impact ...

Final Project

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System Control Center/Federal Electricity and Water Authority

Introduction

2.1. Prophet Muhammad 2.2. Self evaluation 2.3. My attitudes toward different challenges 2.4. FEWA’s desired future leadership competencies 3. Task 2 3.1. Jack Welch/former CEO of GE Company 3.1.1. Jack Welch leadership strategy 3.1.2. Jack Welch leadership style 3.1.3. Jack Welch strengths and areas of development 3.2. “Change plan” 3.2.1. Implementation plan for the change plan 3.2.2. Stakeholders’ involvement in the change. 3.2.3. Strategy for managing resistance to change 4.1. SWOT analysis. 4.2. Individual Development Plan (IDP) 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendix

Introduction

Leadership is one of the significant factors ...

Maslow proposed a theory of self-actualization, according to which the human individual maturity is reached in the implementation of the personal potential. Thus, personal growth and self-actualization are the criteria of mental health. Psycho-social stage accompanied by a crisis that is a turning point in human life arising as a result of reaching a certain level of psychological maturity. Any crisis is a challenge, leading the person to personal growth and overcoming life's obstacles. Specific person decides on the next phase of the life cycle for a given stage of development of evolutionary task. “We viewed personal growth in ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

Spring, 2016

I was raised in the conservative Christian family in the atmosphere of strict rules and respect toward elder people, especially toward parents. My mother is a nurse and my father is a pharmacist. I also have one younger and one elder brother. My parents raised me and my brothers using authoritative parental style. They were highly controlling and demanding and disciplined us for minor misconducts. However, I`m very glad that my parents were so strict, demanding and controlling they made me a good and respectful person. The theory of Skinner can be applied to how my parents raised ...

All human beings inevitably and naturally desire happiness, but what constitutes happiness opinions usually differ. People believe that happiness may come from the acquisition of good things and objects, but as to what things are good, and why, there is very little agreement. Many seek happiness by acquiring real estate, huge houses and luxury furnishings, nice clothes, in other words, everything that money can purchase. Other individuals seek their happiness by psychological road, drinking, eating, and lovemaking, and, therefore, use their bodies as channels for getting sensuous gratification. Others seek happiness by way of leadership and power in the ...