LDR 531 Week 5
360 Assessment
A 360 Degree Reach Assessment is a web based assessment that helps individuals identify how they are perceived by those around them. It allows individuals the ability to receive critical feedback on both a professional and personal level that can help one expand within career or business (Reach Communications Consulting, Inc, 2009). The 360 degree reach assessment has been used by a number of well-known corporations over the years as part of their talent development process. Using the 360 degree reach assessment, individuals will be able to better understand his or her unique personal brand attributes and their strengths and weaknesses, allowing them to increase their confidence and self-motivation (Reach Communications Consulting, Inc, 2009).
In life people wear many different hats depending on the relationship. At home, a parent or spouse, at work as an employee or employer, and as a friend or a teacher. Finding efficient ways to balance the relationships can be challenging. Using an assessment such as the 360° assessment, an individual can get a better understanding of the things that they do right and the things that they can improve on in these different types of relationships. We as people cannot fix things if we do not know they are broken.
Self-evaluations can be one-sided and often biased because people tend to view themselves positively without regard to flaws. The 360° assessment allows people
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Motivational Plan
Organizational Leadership LDR/531
Introduction
In today’s business world, each business organization has a diverse workforce and each worker has specific motivations and emotions. An effective manager understands the challenges involved in creating a workplace that combines the employees’ motivations, satisfactions, and performance into a cohesive and effective workforce. A manager must develop a plan encompassing the employees’ motivation, satisfaction, and performance. It is essential that the plan includes both the managers’ and employees’ perceptions to ensure that all viewpoints are incorporated into the plan maximum result with the team.
I worked for a business whose main purpose was sales; as a value-added reseller for a PC company the company sold computers, parts, materials, and peripherals. As an additional service the establishment maintained and repaired the products retailed. I was a associate of the sales branch. The other divisions consisted of office workers, management, payroll, shipping and receiving, technical support, quality control, and customer service. The company had various motivational strategies in place for the employees. According to Hersey (2007), recent studies have shown that nobody is motivated the same way and no one person has exactly the same needs. Some people are driven by achievement while others are focused on security.Forinstance, the company's benefit was very competitive and involved a process for yearly performance assessments and salary modifications. Each year the division leaders and managers submitted a performance appraisal for each member. The performance appraisal evaluated the member in the following way: not meeting potential, meeting potential, or above potential. As a result of the report, annual pay adjustments were given based on the employee's overall performance rating. In fact, the company rewarded individuals based on their performance, skills, and contributions. The company's focus was to maintain an overall working environment that was team-oriented
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