Through this personal learning paper I intend to shed light on my leanings through this course by means of classes and self study.
There was a fundamental question raised in the first lecture of OB “Why a man behaves the way he does?” and taking this course helped me in getting closer to the probable answers.
Understanding someone's behaviour is important because studying past behaviour patterns of humans in a given situation helps anticipate future behaviour in a similar situation. This becomes all the more important from an organizations perspective given the need to anticipate future and plan accordingly.
But that is still far away and presently I am here in XLRI purely to learn and grow.
I come from the peaceful and green city of Bhopal …show more content…
At that time, I believed that the success of my career was going to be totally dependent on my individual work effort and results. And, while that was certainly true for the first few years in my life, that was not what I saw immediately after. I realised that at each and every step of yours people will judge you, it will have an effect of your relationship with them and each expects a certain kind of behaviour from you.
Hence, as a result of being new to the outside world and being vulnerable each problem I faced came to me as a shock. But yes I came out with flying colours from each of the troubles and kept growing. But as said by Dr. Seuss “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll …show more content…
The different personality types analysis through Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Big Five Personality Model, Motivation Concepts and Emotional Intelligence.
The lessons that had a major impact on me were the motivation, the different motives that drive people and the different theories that try to plot motivation in simple terms. Behavioral Era is characterized with the inclusion of Abraham Maslow - a humanistic psychologist and his the theory of hierarchy of needs. The theory said that Self-actualization was the summit of a human being’s existence. Managers should follow Maslow and attempt to reduce the barriers to employees’
There was a fundamental question raised in the first lecture of OB “Why a man behaves the way he does?” and taking this course helped me in getting closer to the probable answers.
Understanding someone's behaviour is important because studying past behaviour patterns of humans in a given situation helps anticipate future behaviour in a similar situation. This becomes all the more important from an organizations perspective given the need to anticipate future and plan accordingly.
But that is still far away and presently I am here in XLRI purely to learn and grow.
I come from the peaceful and green city of Bhopal …show more content…
At that time, I believed that the success of my career was going to be totally dependent on my individual work effort and results. And, while that was certainly true for the first few years in my life, that was not what I saw immediately after. I realised that at each and every step of yours people will judge you, it will have an effect of your relationship with them and each expects a certain kind of behaviour from you.
Hence, as a result of being new to the outside world and being vulnerable each problem I faced came to me as a shock. But yes I came out with flying colours from each of the troubles and kept growing. But as said by Dr. Seuss “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll …show more content…
The different personality types analysis through Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Big Five Personality Model, Motivation Concepts and Emotional Intelligence.
The lessons that had a major impact on me were the motivation, the different motives that drive people and the different theories that try to plot motivation in simple terms. Behavioral Era is characterized with the inclusion of Abraham Maslow - a humanistic psychologist and his the theory of hierarchy of needs. The theory said that Self-actualization was the summit of a human being’s existence. Managers should follow Maslow and attempt to reduce the barriers to employees’