Karatae Kid Essay

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Performance Management Systems – Film/Video The Karate Kid Q1. What do you understand about performance? Based on the snippets from the movie – The Karate Kid, performance can be described as the action or process of accomplishing a set of tasks. The old man through simple instructions guided the boy in completing a set of tasks each day. The movie showed that the boy was able to assess the difficulty in performing these tasks on the basis of the instructions and expended a lot of energy in completing them. The old man through feedback evaluated and measured his performance and the boy gained proficiency through practice. Thus, we understand from the movie that performance is a process of accomplishing tasks by defining the tasks clearly, assessing the challenges and perfecting through practice and periodic measurement and evaluation. Q2. Why and how was this boy able to learn to this level? What was the strategy? The boy was interested in learning Karate from the old man but harboured preconceived notions of how the training would take shape. But the old man had other ideas. He simplified what would be a daunting task by shifting the frame of reference of training. By making the boy complete hard, repetitive household labour, he instilled in him the discipline, physical endurance and muscle conditioning for the task at hand. Towards the end of the clip, he co-relates those routine movements to those of Karate and succeeds in preparing the boy for high performance. The strategy was to take the boy’s mind off the difficulty of the training and teach him analogous moves that he could relate with. Q3. Glance through 2-3 pages & tell how the boy could learn without formal training. The old man was a good instructor and succeeded in sharing knowledge of his skill with the boy. He was effective as he was able to accurately gauge the boy’s ability and
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