Managing my work priorities and professional development requires me to be a positive role model; have good traits; ensure my work goals and plans reflect the organisation’s; meet my job responsibilities; maintain my personal performance; prioritise my work; use technology to organise and manage my work; maintain a work-life balance; meet required competency standards; determine my developmental needs; take advantage of my learning opportunities; use feedback to improve my competence; use networks to increase my knowledge and develop relationships, and ensure that I acquire new skills to maintain my competitive edge. A good role model is someone who others can look up to and admire. They take leadership on the issues they believe in, influence the decisions of others and guide their actions. To ensure that I acted as a positive role model for my employees and everyone within the workplace, I will need to demonstrate the following steps: Firstly, I will have to set out a good example and present myself as to how I want others to present themselves. Everything I do from the way I dress to the way I speak will be imitated and emulated by others.
The overall career planning process dictates for regular updates and revisal of the personal activities (Rosenmarkle, 2013). It should be a routine activity conducted by an individual for the sake of his/her career planning. As we all have unique developmental needs in our own careers; it is paramount for one to develop a feasible plan that will address both the short-term and long-term career objectives and goals. In this respect, creating an effective and a skillful personal development plan will assist a person to identify and clarify the specific goals one is determined to achieve within a particular period of time. Adequate brainstorming and evaluation of the content within the plan is essential.
Managing Own Performance in a Business Environment Learning outcome 1: Understand how to plan work and be accountable to others 1.1 Outline guideline, procedures codes of practice relevant to personal work There are a number of guidelines and procedures in place to enable me to do my job not only to the best of my ability but in a professional manner. In my role there are procedures that need to be followed relating to various aspects of the job including correct procedures to answer the telephone, dealing with IT issues, as well as many other procedures. 1.2 Explain the purpose of planning work and being accountable to others for own work Planning is essential to manage your time in a constructive way to complete the actions to be carried out. Planning helps to be organized on a day to day, weekly and monthly basis. While planning you have to obtain as many details about the piece of work you are doing to enable you to produce your work as efficiently as possible.
Employee rights and responsibilities have developed over time to also foster in the protection for employees as well. Employers have the problem of balancing the legalities with responsibilities and the total social engagement of an organization. With employees rights and responsibilities comes the concepts of due process, employment at-will, duty of diligence, duty of obedience, and duty of loyalty. Employers love to have an engaged workforce so seeking out ways to have a productive organization can be challenging. Employee involvement strategies have been created to include employees in the some of the decision making in their day-to-day activities.
A manger should report on and audit their team/departments overall productivity and outputs to ensure that time and recourses are being spent wisely. 1.1.3. Explain, in the context of meeting organizational needs, the difference between managers and leaders. A manager is a person in a position of power that represents a department or team; they are responsible for reporting, auditing, planning and developing procedures. It is also their responsibility to delegate tasks, monitor employee performances and ensure that the team is productive and efficient.
What did you learn from them? 3Can a person be a positive workplace role model if they are poorly organised and do not operate effectively? 1 How would you ensure that you personal work goals reflect the organisation’s plans, and your own responsibilities and accountabilities? Do not limit your ideas to those provided in the text. 2 A member of your team has presented you with their work goals for the next quarter.
Personal Reflection Assessment Managing my work priorities and professional development requires me to act as a good role model who has the traits of an effective leader; ensure that my work goals and plans reflect the organization’s goals and plans; meet my job responsibilities; measure and maintain my personal performance; priorities work; use technology to organize and manage my work; maintain a work/life balance; meet required competency standards; determine my developmental needs; take advantage of learning opportunities; gather feedback from others about my personal performance and use it to improve my competence; use networks to increase my knowledge, gain new skills and develop relationships, and to ensure that I acquired new skills to maintain my competitive edge. What makes a good role model and how would I ensure that I acted as a role model for employees I supervise? Effective role models possess desirable characteristics that make them easy to look up to. They inspire others to make changes and strive toward new goals. Characteristics that a role model possesses includes high moral values, confidence, who is hardworking, respectful, has an optimistic outlook on life and can find creative solutions to their problems in the workplace.
Running head: Designing Compensation Systems and Employee Benefits Designing Compensation Systems and Employee Benefits Janice R. Young Dr. Andrew McLeod Business 409 Strategic Compensation November 22, 2011 DESIGNING COMPENSATION SYSTEMS AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Describe the differences between job analysis and job evaluation and how these practices help establish internally consistent job structures. Job analysis and job evaluations are the fundamental cornerstones of any best practice in a human resource approach. It provides a really good understanding about the jobs in the company, how there structured, how there organized and how they are correctly and fairly graded. This is very important for the company and the employee. Job analysis is the process of obtaining valid job information that aids management in making decisions.
The purpose of this paper is to present the importance of action planning in career counseling and finalizing the decision making process and evaluate the source of the strategies used in the process to arrive at a reasonable conclusion about the entire decision making process. During the exploration of the contextual and labor market information, we were able to see clearly that Information Technology is a good career choice for the client based on his interest, work experience, others perception about him and the availability of several jobs in that field coupled with the clients personal attributes which matches the requirements for getting a good job in the field of Technology. Based on the information gathered, there is need for the client to advance his studies to the University or college to obtain a degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, after comparing this two similar courses, the clients decided he will prefer to go for Information Technology since it's a little bit more practically inclined. The client shows his readiness for action planning as he already made up his mind to resign his appointment as soon as he secure an admission in the college the following year and he's already plans to visit the two campuses in the city that offers the program in addition to exploring further information on their websites. The clients has come up with the following action plans: • Visit the college website for more information about the requirements to study Information Technology in the college • Visit the school for an educational tour and make arrangement to talk to lecturers/ counselor in the department • Research other professional qualifications that will be required to succeed in the field of Information Technology like Microsoft, Cisco etc certifications.
This process helps an individual understand how others perceive them. Feedback is essential to facilitating performance improvements. Feedback allows people to utilize their strengths to their advantage. Feedback informs employees which actions create problems for others and to know what changes may be needed. 360 Performance Appraisal: Uses Uses for 360 Performance Appraisal include: Employee Development Performance Appraisal Performance Management Training Needs Assessment Evaluation of Training Attitude Survey Organizational Climate Survey Customer Satisfaction Survey This process can also be a motivator of performance since it shows the employee that their opinions and views are considered important.