Essays on Self-Evaluation

This short clip features former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. According to Fiorina, effective leadership demands individuals with self-awareness, communication, and self-evaluation skills. Self-evaluation is an awareness-related skill that assists leaders build on their strengths as well as mitigate their weaknesses. Leaders can take personality and leadership tests to measure the nature of their position within the organization. Such tests facilitate the extent to which leaders self-reflect for an ease in predictive leadership. Fiorina suggests that evaluation will help leaders and managers acquire the traits that help in driving businesses to thriving entities (Films Media Group, 2001). Second, self-awareness imply ...

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Overview The employees and staff of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel are locals. Because majority of them are inexperienced in terms of working in a five-star hotel, they mostly lack the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to serve customers of Ritz-Carlton hotel. On the contrary, the managerial personnel are experienced, competent, and trained, having a hotel management degree and a comprehensive five-star hotel training prior to working in Ritz-Carlton Hotel. However, they discovered that their housekeeping, kitchen, lobby, and front office personnel lack any formal education or training in their jobs. The managerial personnel hence encountered difficulties in giving them appropriate ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a commonly applied treatment approach aimed to replace the dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts of patients with more accurate and constructive beliefs to relieve their emotional distress. The effectiveness of CBT lies in aspects such as collaboration between the patient and therapist, coping card, and cognitive strategies which help in the therapeutic effectiveness (Wright, 2006). The contribution of such aspects has been highlighted in several study findings in which treatment in both the clinical and research settings has been researched. When it comes to the use of CBT in treating mood disorders, most people would assume ...

The evaluation of you is a challenging process that requires profound preparation for. It is an important stage in the life of every person, whether he or she wants to find a new job or improve the existing career. Self-evaluation is always subjective as it is mostly you who make any commentaries about your personality. However, self-evaluation is not only a necessary step in the improvement of one’s career prospects, it is a vital process for understanding who you are and what are your aspirations in life. Self-evaluation process is rather effective as a part of the studying ...

Eating disorders are characterized by the changes in a person’s eating behavior that is either a significant reduction of food or substantial overeating. The causes of these states may vary from the feelings of distress to the concern about one’s body and therefore one’s appearance. As a rule, adolescents and young adults suffer from eating disorders, but children and older adults may face these problems too. Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are the primary types of eating disorders ("Eating Disorders | Psychology Today", 2015, n.p.).

Cases Background Information

Anita is a perfectionist. That is why she is worried much about ...

Introduction

My current role is that of a marketing manager where I am working in teams, and different responsibilities are assigned to us by the manager. In my current job, I have to communicate with other members on a regular basis, and I have to learn new concepts and methods to process information in an effective and meaningful manner. I do not have a supervisory role at present, but my job does involve the delegation of authority and regular meetings to resolve issues. My aim is to focus on the role of a strategy developer and play an important role ...

Abstract:

This formal report focuses on self-reflection and the importance of personal development planning for students and managers. This focus underlines the necessity to define the concepts of self-reflection and Personal Development Planning and critically assess the ways they benefit students and managers. The report is divided into two primary sections: Self-reflection (1) and Personal Development Planning (2) that are, in their turn, subdivided into four and, respectively, three sub-sections. The materials used for composing this formal report include peer-reviewed journal articles, a book, and web-resources that focus upon the topics of self-reflection and PDP, their benefits and best implementation ...

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Introduction Most top multi-level and multi-nation organizations have performance appraisals as their essential factors in order to achieve goals (Shahriari,, et al. 2013). These performance appraisals are in line to ensure that competent staff are selected and trained to meet the mission of the organization. The key customers of the organization are also taken into consideration to assess employee strength and weaknesses (Shahriari,, et al. 2013). As per recent norms, nurses should be held responsible for any deficient in the healthcare system with respect to any setting. Furthermore, nurses in hospitals are also responsible for the overall patient outcomes ...

It is vital for any person, particularly a manager, to understand himself. As I read through the chapter, I was very interested in how the different areas relate to each other – no one component functions alone, neither giving nor receiving influence from the other aspects of self-awareness. I can humbly state that I have experience in self-evaluation in all areas and have consciously considered my shortcomings when I recognized them. For, while I value myself as a unique and beautiful person and tell myself I value others in the same way, I sometimes find myself judging someone else. They ...

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking & Self Evaluation

This paper explores how gender discrimination affects employee performance in the workplace. The study also highlights all the issues a male employee faces in the workplace; and discusses how an employee overcomes confronted gender-based issues. The interview analysis paper also highlights the perception of interviewee regarding career advancements and gender stereotyping.

Personal Information:

The questionnaire starts with collecting interviewee personal information. The name and other private information cannot be revealed to maintain confidentiality. The interviewee age is around mid-30s. He belongs to India but works in an American Company based in the USA.

Views and Challenges Faced in the Workplace:

Workplace issues are mostly ...

Suicide in the Military

Over the last decade, an increase in the number suicides has been noted in the military (Castro & Kintzle, 2014; Rudd et al., 2015). Research studies have related mental health issues such as anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and substance abuse or dependence among active and inactive servicemen. Notably, the rate of hospitalization due to mental health problems and suicide ideation has risen rapidly in the military circles over the last ten years (Castro & Kintzle, 2014). Many social workers have used the military transition theory to illustrate the possible causes of increased psychological health issues among war veterans that ...

Incentive compensation of any form will certainly motivate the managerial behavior of the executives in a company Wowak (2010). However, researches have unanimously found that self-confidence is what determines how the executives will react to the incentive compensations. Self-confidence will significantly affect their cognitions, motivations and actions. A model of pay-person interaction built on this idea also predicts that executives’ self confidence would influence their response to incentive compensation. Apart from self-confidence, situational contingencies such as firm’s size and technology can also explain how the incentives may affect the managerial behavior. Without incentive compensation, the executives will work to ...

This article is proper representation of cognitive attributes based on an extremely creative ground. The presentation of the case is on a narration that involves taking the subject at hand, impersonating it and delivering it to the people. The idea has an aim of giving each reader a personal touch of the idea with extensive source of ideas and information in the discussion (Mishler, 1986). People like listening to stories which later confine in to a moral idea. This narration gives a basic understanding of the story, preparing people for the absorption of the reality (Cooper & McLeod, 2011). The story changes later, and ...

The performance evaluation process must be done in an effective manner. An effective process of evaluating performances comprises of distinct characteristics and components. A good performance evaluation process helps inspire maximum performance from workers. In an effective performance evaluation process, workers must understand their duties, how they can overturn their weaknesses and how the organization plans to help its employees attain their targets (Schultz & Schultz, 2010).

If a performance evaluation process comprises of self evaluation, employees can critique and assess their own performance. They can highlight their achievements and review performances within a certain period. It improves accountability within the organization ( ...

Holistic assessment refers to a global approach in the assessment of a student learning outcome. According to Sadler (2009), in holistic assessment the teacher or the assessor has to develop complex mental responses to a student’s work. Consequently, this will include how the assessor appreciates the work from the student regarding the quality of the work. When grading the students work, the assessor provides a grade and supports it with a valid justification for assigning the grade. The rationale may include a summary of the work or comments highlighting the main point in the student’s work. Meyers and Nulty (2009) suggest that ...

SELF EVALUATION A good teacher is the one who conducts self evaluation on themselves. When doing this, they should consider all the major components of the lesson. Obviously, this should come at the end of the lesson. At this stage, it is only reflection that is done. The major questions asked, therefore, include the following: i) Did I teach well? ii) Did I not teach well? iii) If I did not teach well, what was the problem? iv) If I am to re-teach this lesson, will I do the way I did? Actually, it ...