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A few of the Essay and Assignment tackled on Reflective assignments
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| | Self reflection assignment using the theories of Change Management | | | ABC Constructions Pte Limited, a Singapore based construction company is experiencing diminished business and revenues for the past few years due to global meltdown. The company is into infrastructure building operations such as constructions of roads, bridges, flyovers, underpasses etc. The company operates in several developed and developing countries. The company has a huge reputation of quality construction and reliability. The company is currently experiencing a drop in its business volume as most of the countries where is operates have However, it has not taken any steps to counter the adverse effects of economical recession in terms of structural and functional changes to the organization. The company had huge capital reserves, which were being used to meet high overheads and operational expenses of its offices located in different nations. However, management is of late realizing the fact that the company does not have a sound strategy to deal with recession. The structural and functional changes to the organization now seem imminent. The management has identified the problem areas of the organization as a result of global economic meltdown. However, the management is yet to come out with a strategy to ensure sustenance of the business. The first step the management is contemplating is downsizing the business operations. But it is not sure as to how to go about it and also is not sure of the impacts of downsizing on the functioning of the organization. The organization so far has been running with hierarchical structure and many managers are insecure of their positions as a result of impending change. There is also a power battle on some quarters of the management to resist change and to continue operations without downsizing even at the cost of using up capital reserves. This section is portraying the image that recession is temporary and that downsizing would adversely influence the image of the organization as a financially sound and prosperous. There is also a section of managers in the senior management level who are continuing to work with the organization despite the fact that their roles in the organization are not crucial to the functioning and success of the organization. The board of directors has replaced the aged CEO with a new younger CEO to formulate a strategy and implement it survive through the recession period. The CEO has realized all these organizational politics, power play and a tendency among some of the senior managers to shirk responsibilities and resistance to contribute to the functioning of the organization by doing multiple tasks etc. The CEO has identified the current requirement of the company to sail through the recession period as downsizing operations and even staff, organizational restructuring and cultural change that expects mangers to involve in multiple tasks to make up for downsizing of the staff. The change processes have been identified and the change management team has been set up headed by the CEO himself. | |  |
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| | Assignment on self-awareness & communication | | | People often underestimate themselves or often unable to spot their strength or weakness, as most of them don’t know much about themselves. Self analysis involves people to examine themselves, this is specially required in the process of job search, when one has to prepare their application letter and resume. Moreover to be a good communicator it is important to be self aware. | | |
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| | Development of Individual long term contract on creating long term influence over others | | | This report is constructed to exemplify the learning contract signed by me and my group in order to achieve and hoon my capability of leadership. It starts with the triggers and the events which narrate the reason of me working on improving my skills in order to maintain the Long Term Influence on my subordinates and colleagues supported with the leadership models to visualise in the practical way instead of a pop up idea. During this diagnosis, Mind Mapping has been a vital tool to reflect myself and to come with the key attributes which were hindering my improvement in maintaining the influence. Learning goals are been generates which will fill up the gaps between ‘current me’ and ‘Ideal me’ which is followed by the strategic and achievable action plans for getting this ask accomplish. Finally, a conclusion has been drawn in order to reflect my learning, experience and expectation from this learning contract. | | |
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| | Learning contract on Challenges to develop my capabilities in creating and sustaining entrepreneurial and innovative teams in an established organization | | | Learning Contract is a practical device helping one to bridge the gap between the now and the later stage of a leadership perspective and is a self-directed learning process. I have tried to write this learning contract as an experience to learn that is of current interest to me. I have identified an issue in this contract regarding the difficulties faced while leading a team and working in a team. With the help of this issue I have tried to analyse my behavior as a team leader. The different Model of Leadership, Leadership Self-Assessment model and feedback from my small learning group which I have used in this contract has been a good support to evaluate the areas where I lack as an effective leader. The contract explains about what challenges I am facing to develop my capabilities in creating and sustaining entrepreneurial and innovative teams in an established organisation. | | |
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| | Personal marketing plan in pharmaceutical industry and its relevancy in present scenario | | | Typically marketing is the process of creating, promoting and delivering goods and services to consumers and business. Marketing is often dynamic, challenging and rewarding. It can also be frustrating and even disappointing but it is never dull. As far as the marketing is concerned there is variability among the basic strategies according to the segment and demand. As being a pharmacy graduate I always want to work with R&D of the top pharmaceutical company like Ranbaxy, which is the largest pharmaceutical company of India. | | |
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| | Persuasive essay on the topic of Should restrictions be placed on the use of mobile phones in public areas like restaurants and theatres | | | I am trying to make my point here that we must put some guidelines for using of mobile phones in a public place but we at any circumstances, cannot restrict its usage. People must be made aware why the traffic guidelines, the government and the authorities, are insisting that we should not use mobile phones in the public vicinity. Not that they want to break connectivity of people and make this country back to stone age but the idea is to use a facility which should not hinder others. We should not only be using negative connotations to terrify people that in case a mobile phone is used in a public place, “it would kill people” etc., instead, we could use campaigns to educate people how to make use of this facility nicely without disturbing others. I think all the readers would agree with me on this that reading scary ads once or twice, does not give a brand recall in our mind. Instead if we tell people or give them instructions subtly, we could be more successful. | | |
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| | Reflective assignment on Leadership and Change Management | | | The following is a reflection of my stint with ABC Constructions Pte. Ltd., a Singapore based construction corporation, which has a branch office in Melbourne, Australia. It is a large sized company having operations in the Asia Pacific region. It had recently opened its operations in Australia. The nature of the work the company undertook was urban infrastructure constructions such as flyovers, underpasses, metro rail tunnels etc. I worked there as senior human resource executive. I was in charge of a small team of human resource executives. My job was to look after the well being, wages, transportation, living conditions of the low class workers that were brought from the South East Asia. He team of workers moves with the company operations to different nations where the company has bagged huge infrastructure construction projects. Although, the company hires local workers too, this core team of employees which was involved in activities such as heavy equipment operation, earth mover operation etc. My job was to interact with these low class employees and look after their needs such as food, shelter, travel arrangements, visa preparations, orienting them to the new nation’s culture and work responsibilities etc. I had a team of three executives to assist me. I would report to the Human Resource Manager, who was handling more than a thousand employees that were directly or indirectly employed by the company.
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| | Reflective assignment on Organizational behaviour using motivational theories | | | I am writing about when I worked for an SEO (search engine optimization) marketing service, writing, editing, and offering internet marketing advice and business solutions to a wide-range of ebusinesses. As a freelance employee for www.seoarticlewritingservice.net, I worked closely with the website owner to manage other writers and create an effective SEO marketing strategy. We realized quickly that the way we were organizing writers and clients, through email alone, was grossly ineffective, unsystematic, and disorganized.
My role was to provide a solution to better organize orders, writers, and clients, ideally in a way that is semi-automated. I proposed to explore how IT (information technology) and Java computer scripts can be utilized to reduce the time needed to process orders for an SEO (search engine optimization) website business. The findings ought to be relevant for a wide-range of writing and service-oriented businesses. The plan explored the time needed for the current business processes, and compared this to new, web-based, project management systems. Information technology is integral to efficiently running a business. Regardless of the business industry, each business process typically requires each business segment to communicate with each other and across segments. Timely, accurate, and up to date information is vital. By utilizing Java and its logical programming structure such as contingency-based, if-then statements, which act as triggers for automated processes, businesses can increase their efficiency dramatically.
The company has been in business for 8 years, and growing rapidly. At the time, it employed 12 full-time managers and 144, part-time, freelance writers. Each manager organized, taught, and helped edit for 12 writers each.
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| | Reflective commitment plan on improving presentation skills | | | The most important thing that has stood out for me as learning during this unit of study is that I have started realizing my strengths and weaknesses better and have developed an understanding of the skills that I need to develop to be a successful leader. | | |
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| | Reflective essay discussing – Prosperity or posterity? In relation to Climate change | | | Climate change is the one of the biggest challenges faced by the earth and the human beings today. Human activity has been scientifically proven to be the trigger. This phenomenon has far reaching effects and may cause long term damages. Therefore, the question of prosperity v/s posterity comes into play. Prosperity is usually mistaken to be present monetary benefit; however it is a wide term that involves a large number of concepts. The needs of posterity or the future generation are considered to be the responsibility of the present generation. Therefore, sustainable development is extremely important. Sustainable development brings into view ‘biodiversity’- the 3.5 million species that exist on earth. Posterity should account for all the living creatures on earth because biodiversity naturally maintains ecosystem balance. The situation has not yet gone out of hands. Control over GHG emissions through various strategies is important. Each individual should participate in the effort to save the earth. | | |
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| | Report studying and Comparing the Cultural values of Australia and India | | | The aim of the report is to study and compare the cultural values of Australia and India. This would be done to help understand each other better in workplace, academic institutions and in socializing. The report will take help of the existing literature and research material available and study both the cultures under a framework and present its result and recommendations. It will conclude with the final analysis. | | |
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| | Self Appraisal report on Group work and Team performance | | | Our team ‘Logies’ was a group of four- Quang, Clair, Enes and Olena (me). I was the leader of the group and as the leader; I coordinated the work of my team throughout the semester for the output of a group assignment. The self appraisal report is presented below section wise. | | |
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| | Self-Reflective assignment on Management, Organizational Behaviour and Motivation | | | I am reflecting on a time in my working life where I offered advice and business solutions to a mid-sized legal firm regarding problems relating to people management strategies. As an independent business consultant I was recommended to the Senior Partner of PBA Solicitors, a legal firm in Toowoomba who revealed the company was experiencing problems concerning low staff morale, lack of motivation and team relationships. My role was to provide the Partners with a proposal of solutions to help with improvement strategies for the business overall. This was a medium size thirty year established firm consisting of eight partners, nine solicitors in various filed of law and fifty employees in total, including paralegal, secretarial and administration staff.
The Senior partner controlled all areas of management without any formal Human Resource (HR) structure or quality standards in place, nor any Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, yet he desired the company to be viewed as progressive, with his informal catchcry being ‘Passion, Teamwork and Fun’. His operating style was unstructured hence he informed me during our first meeting he loathed the words ‘structure’ and ‘mission’. This was an evident fact as the company was void of a mission or value statement nor had a business or strategic plan in place to cope with exit or succession strategy, yet it was the partners’ desire to retire ‘rich’.
The partners all had external investment interests as company profits were high, however it was not of concern to them to plan for the future or expand the business at that stage due to the ease of the comfort zone.
Divisional cells applied to each area of law being Commercial, Litigation, Family, and Conveyancing. Each cell had a routine way of operating with the Commercial department being the main revenue earner due to the rapid growth of the property market in Cairns. This in turn was creating work load pressure particularly for the conveyancing team and administration staff; hence they felt unappreciated and totally unrewarded for their increased work efforts.
I ascertained there were three main areas of concern for this business overall being the lack of functional structure (no HR systems in place), problems regarding soft skills in relation to improving feedback and managing poor performance, and team development with breakdowns in communication, cooperation and working toward a common goal.
If these issues were not dealt with accordingly the company would experience problems pertaining to staff retention and attraction of new talent should competition become an issue in the future. The probability of staff being poached by competition was high if attractive remuneration and reward packages were offered by opposition along with the promise of a more inclusive culture and career development prospects relating to succession via promotions and partnering opportunities.
If this company was to survive, thrive, and maintain healthy market share then strategies for improvement regarding the ‘big picture’ required implementation.
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| | Short article on Personal ethical incident | | | This articles provides answer to the following question –
Description of an ethical incident or situation faced by a close relative in a business organization. How did this incident affect the individual? What did you learn from this incident and how would you act differently in the future if you encountered a similar situation you may wish to disguise manes, etc.
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