Trait Reports Samples For Students

Narcissism

The trait in question is narcissism. The unit of measure of this trait is Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Narcissism is the quality of one who seeks gratification from vanity; an egotistic person who admires excessively his or her attributes (Holmes, 2001). This is usually derived from arrogance. A person suffering from narcissism is said to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It is considered to be a societal ill and is a concept of psychoanalytic theory.
The Narcissistic Personality Inventory is a measure that is taken to measure the standards of Narcissism psychological research (American Psychological Association, 1987). The measure is used to measure ...

Psychologists and psychiatrists have devised several ways to study human personality. In the Five Factor Personality Test, researchers allow the respondent to fill in a survey and then analyze their score on the basis of five broad categories. However, these are not only used by professionals but any individual can analyze his/her scores given the basic understanding. The five factors of personality that are analyzed include; openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. These five factors form the basis but there are other personality traits or characteristics that come under these broad terms. Every trait is independent of the other; hence, ...

Abstract

The paper deals with four main sections of leadership. These include leadership styles, dependency theory of power, expectancy theory of motivation, and performance appraisal in a company. Each section is discussed in details and examples of relevant scenarios given. Mainly, the paper identifies leadership styles in given scenarios, gives an explanation of the dependency and expectancy theories of motivation. Moreover, performance appraisal process in a company has also been discussed.

Key words: leadership styles, power, dependency, expectancy, performance appraisal.

Task 1: leadership styles

Identifying Leadership Styles

Leader A can be categorized as a level 5 leader. This is because he/she has transformed the company to a high ...

B. OBJECTIVE

C. METHODOLOGY
Over a period of time of four week study three generations of flies starting with a parental (P) generation that has already separate the flies in each generation of each cross into males and females and separate the flies according to their mutations. Based on the observed numbers of each phenotype in each generation of each cross hypothesize the parental cross and use the chi-square (x2) test and if there is little difference between the observed results and the expected results, the chi-square will have a low value, thus, the hypothesis will be supported in this case.
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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 ...

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography.
The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

Crawley Family and Criminal Justice

There are two types of leaders, and these are born and made leaders. While it is possible to master the art of leadership, it becomes much easier to execute it when born with it. Born leaders are natural leaders (Blank, 2001). Leadership runs in their veins. They do no need to exert too much effort in portraying the leadership qualities. Leadership appears to be more natural when portrayed by a born leader than a made leader. As it follows, effective leaders are born, to some extent, with genetic and dispositional tendencies that are a good fit for the role. ...

Introduction

Mutation induces the formation mRNA strands that are formed later that they are converted into a native protein. Mutational causes the peptide formed develop a structure similar to a protein. Antimicrobial peptide formed after mutation depends on the chemical property. Mutation causes bacteria to increase in the peptide leading to low hemolytic function. Bacteria lead to anoplin to causing the shape of peptide to form a protein like shape that is spectroscopy.
Mutation causes the chain of the peptide to form a protein structure that later forms a tertiary that is the antigen molecule responsible for forming the body immune system. The chains amino ...

Introduction

Human resource management is one of most rapidly developing fields of management. According to the opinion of A.Haslinda (2009), “human resources are organization’s greatest assets, because without them everyday business functions such as managing cash flows, making business transactions, communicating through all forms of media and dealing with customers could not be completed”(180). Despite the fact that modern HRM stresses high value of human resources, it is still criticized for treating people just as a means or a tool instead of considering their personalities. In this assignment we will consider the way modern HRM treats people and find out ...

Perception and Consumer Behavior

Perception is the process of knowing features of stimuli with the use of vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch (Scott, 1994). The visual perception i.e. size/shape in the L’Oreal Men Expert Vita Lift 5 ad is rectangle with the focus on more than one dimension to enable consumers to downsize their order by enlarging the product along all dimensions. On the other hand, the shape of the Aveeno Absolutely Ageless ad is portrait. The size of the ad is adjusted through focus on multiple dimensions to perceive the product easily. Lettering is another factor affects the perception of ...

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 ...

There are five dimensions of personality, based on the theory in the article of McCrae & Costa (1987), which are the following: (1) neuroticism; (2) extraversion; (3) openness; (4) agreeableness; and (5) conscientiousness (Ghiabi & Besharat, 2011, p.416). There are a great many variety of personality theories, but it is this theory of McCrae that tried to define and generalize personality into five distinct dimensions. Each of these dimensions are aspects of the emotional intelligence that allow people to correlate with others and develop social interaction. This identified the importance of knowing a person’s personality dimension, for them to identify ...

Lab report

Introduction.
The Mendelian genetic effort, revolve around the inheritance of biological characteristics that trail the proposed Mendelian laws brought forward by Gregor Mendel (He & University of Chicago, 46). These regulations advocate for independent assortment, trait dominance in alleles, and the segregative capability of alleles. Thus the hypothetical endeavor of this report is to ascertain the identity of the first filial generation -F1, based on the phenotypic quotients of the second filial-F2 cohorts
Fruit fly drosophila is considered ideal in genetic experiments, because they share the majority of their genes that cause diseases with humans up to 75 ...

Objective 2

Introduction 2
General background 3
Resistance mutants 4
Hemoglobin mutants 4
Sickle Cell Anemia and Genetics: Background Information 5
Connection of Sickle cell with Malaria 6
Method: 7
Introduction of Recombinant DNA technology in diagnosing disease: 8
Discussion (implementation of recombinant DNA technology to solve the issue) 9
Conclusions 10

References 11

Objective
This report targets to study a group of people that has developed resistance to malaria. It will focus on the use of recombinant DNA technology to study this cohort and gain insights into the nature of this observation. This ...

For my market cultural report I have selected the country that shows one of the most rapid developing economics in the world, and that is China. I have always been fascinated by this country and not only by their success in economic growth, but also by the country’s beauty. The nature of China is unique and magnificent as for me, there are nowhere on Earth such places as in this country. Moreover, authentic culture and customs of these people are also very attractive to me. There is the highest mountain on Earth, Everest, there and unique place called ...

Question 1

Among the various internationalization theories, Uppsala internationalization model can be considered as the best representative of the Zara's strategy of internalization. According to Tykesson and Alserud (2011, p.6). The Uppsala Model of Internationalization implies that firms try to enter the new market incrementally based on their market knowledge. When a firm acquires adequate information and experience regarding their local market, they tend to expand into the neighboring market and then later in the foreign markets. Usually, such firms enter into the markets that have similar characteristics in the markets where they have acquired experience. Zara has followed various Steps ...

Research assignment

Abstract
The ambulance service needs recommendations on the characteristics and traits of potential volunteers. Previous research indicates that volunteers need to be risk-takers, emotionally stable and have the ability to get along with others. Recommendations were made to find suitable candidates with these traits through a group assessment to test group and individual risk, decision making, emotional intelligence through a psychological check and by finding a volunteer who fits the job search.

Introduction

Background information & outline of the problem:
The ambulance service is a valuable service that helps the community access treatment when sick, involved in an accident or when ...

I was born an innocent and harmless baby without any knowledge of what the world had in store for me. Raised in a dairy farm, I learned working in the farm at a tender age since my parents would go with me to the farm. At the age of eight, I was able to do simple activities in the farm. This was a result of exposure to farm work because everyone else concentrated on it therefore I had to adapt to the prevailing environment. At this age, I worked in the farm naively with my parents. Jean Rousseau, a great French philosopher who ...

ABSTRACT (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)

This report critically reviews and analyses the concept of employee engagement as it occurs in human resource management. The essay critiques the core elements and features of employee engagement and how it relates to motivation. It reviews how employee engagement can help a firm to achieve optimal results. These pointers were applied to Apple and the paper concludes with a series of recommendations on how Apple can improve its status through employee engagement.
The research identifies that employee engagement is about getting workers to focus on organisational tasks by dedication, vigour and absorption in meeting organisational tasks. This is similar ...

Introduction

The topic of leadership is one that has attracted a lot of interest from academicians as well as practitioners. A lot of research has been conducted on the topic with the aim of establishing what exactly leadership entails. There is in fact thousands of books, articles and other publications on this topic. Leadership has also been exposed to a variety of definitions with many scholars failing to come to a consensus in regard to the most accurate definition. Nevertheless, leadership is often seen by many as the organizational process through which an individual influences other people towards attaining or achieving common goals. ...

Leadership in Health and Social Care: The challenge of promoting effective teamwork on hand hygiene compliance in an inter-disciplinary environment for team leaders in Hong Kong authority hospitals

Part I

Introduction:
Hand hygiene is the single most effective and cost efficient method for preventing and reducing the transmission of hospital acquired infections. Adherence to hand hygiene practices is the most important method of reducing infections in healthcare facilities. Because hands of healthcare workers frequently serve as vectors for the transmission of organisms between patients, and are also a major reservoir for pathogens with antimicrobial resistance, the simple act of washing ones ...

Executive Summary 3

Motivation.. 3

Conclusions.10

Recommendations.. 10

Reference List 12

Executive Summary
In this case, Suzanne Chalmers has resigned her work at Advanced Photonics Limited (APL). Consequently, Thomas is getting worried with the recent increase in the number of workers who are leaving the company. The paper seeks to give solutions to Thomas so that the company would retain as many employees as possible. Thus, the study shall seek evidence on how the employees at APL would be motivated so as to encourage their stay in this company. Occasionally most managers have pegged the concept of employee motivation with money rewards. However, in some ...

Abstract

The field of psychology continues to offer several means of measuring empathy different from the traditionally known empathy measurement styles. Empathy has a relationship with age and autistic spectrum trait of an individual. The research aimed at determining the different AQ scores for adults between 19 and 70 years of age. In addition, the relationship between age and AQ and empathy measurement was investigated. The research used mixed methodology research design where interviews, questionnaires, and surveys were conducted. In addition, the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) was used to test autistic like-traits among participants. The research results indicated that the ...

Molecular Diagnostics

Genomic Evaluation of Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
and Alzheimer’s Disease

Session You Attended

Abstract
The aim to of this series of experiments is to examine a patient’s DNA for association to atrial fibrillation (AF) and Alzheimer’s disease. The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2200733, associated with an increased chance of development of atrial fibrillation. Two SNPs: rs439358 and the rs7412, located within exon4 of the human apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene are associated with increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Isolation of the DNA from patient white blood cells, followed by PCR-RFLP and cycle sequencing are among the techniques ...

Introduction

Personal improvement is an essential element of working in a team, and on a larger scale, within an organization. A higher potential for growth usually leads to higher chances of earning a reputation in a large corporation and being placed in a sweet spot filled with other employee perks and privileges. While this may seem to be one of the most common and strongest type of motivation for self-improvement and personal growth, especially at a time when studying in a university and enjoying the advantages and enjoyment associated with college or university life are already over, there is more to self-improvement and personal growth within an ...

Introduction

Change in any organization is inevitable and every organization always anticipates change which is always expected to an organization at any given time. To most organizations, the worrying question is how the organization, particularly the employees, to whom the implementation of the organizations objectives is always pegged, will react to the change. As one of the strategies to ensuring that an organization reacts well with change, organizations always have change management teams served with the responsibility of ensuring that an organization is not adversely affected by any form of change. These teams, with regards to the pivotal role that ...

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Working with and leading people

A leader must have certain skills and attributes which makes people obey and abide by his decisions. Some important skill sets leaders should have is having a drive to achieve, integrity and honesty, motivation, emotional maturity, cognitive ability, flexibility and creativity, charisma, self confidence, business knowledge, self efficacy and effectuation. These are just some skill sets that a leader should possess. In general, the traits of most leaders may be divided based on task competence or trait related, interpersonal attributes and demographics. In a similar manner, the behaviours displayed by leaders may be further classified into change, relational dynamics and task ...

Abstract

Industrialization and globalization in developed countries have led to sedentary lifestyles, which have a dramatic effect on the health and energy levels of individuals living in these countries (Balko, 2004). Factors such as access to fast food, the existence of junk food and increasing levels of inactivity contribute to overall laziness in lifestyle, as well as a lack of proper nutrition. I used an excel file to keep track of my daily intake of fruits and vegetables and at the end of the day add up my total. The Program was successful in improving my diet however it was unsuccessful in ...