Reflection Paper Work Centrality Scale

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

This scale represents the importance of work in a person’s self-concept.

Description: The score I got on this part is unexpected since I am not much of work-centred person but a self-centered person. When I was going through the assessment I never expected the score to be high. I thought that I would receive an above average score on this part but instead I got high work-centrality. Work Centrality is definitely the perception concerning the benefit as well as incredible importance of perform in a person’s life. This can be concern if something does not go right with their work part, their non-work roles are not associated with sufficiently benefit to take care of a confident self-evaluation. When I saw my score I was a little shocked because I always thought that there are many other parts to my self-concept such as social life, self-centrality. From this survey I learned that work is an important part of my self-concept and work mainly describes my focus. I also learned that if something goes wrong with my work role it can also affect my non-work roles because I am work-centered.

Analyses: This information I received about work-centrality is very important to me since it is an important part of my self-concept. My work-centrality score can relate to the concepts perception and self-concept from our textbook. The "self-concept is mainly a person’s beliefs and evaluations about their self" (p.64). The information I received about work-centrality means that work highly relates to my self-concept because what I believe, what I do is mainly based on work and that’s what evaluates me. This work centrality assessment is the self-evaluation about how work can be the main focus of my self-concept. It also explains that so much focus on one work can affect the other work going around. "Perception is the process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us" (p.69). My score explains how I perceive work as my main focus. The survey score relates to perception because it explains how I receive the work and how I connect it to myself to make sense of the work. I learned from the analysis that how I perceive work is the center part of my self-concept.

Integrate: From what I learned about work-centrality survey can be very important to myself as a whole, it can help me in school work, job work or any type of work I am supposed to do. Since I am highly focused on work it can help me with my school work such as studying for tests, or working in groups. Before I never thought that I am very focused on work but now that I know can I can try to change my thinking about work-centrality. High work centrality people have low self-concept complexity but if one work is affected, other non-work is also affect. So, I will try that my focus on one work does not affect my other non-work roles. I will also try to manage and focus on other work equally. This skill can help me focus on my career since I will be more focused on my professional work. I will also try to manage this work-centrality skill for future.

Personal needs Questionnaire

Description: Most people have the same inborn powers; our own supplementary as well as figured out desires differ depending on our personality, beliefs and self-concept. The score I got in this part is on average. When I was going through this assessment I felt that I need achievement and social approval for this score. Need for achievement refers is the term for a person’s desire to have essential fulfillment, understanding associated with abilities, management or even higher expectations. Moreover, It is relates to the problem of tasks persons decide to carry out. Those with lower achievement may perhaps consider quite simple tasks so that they can reduce possibility of failing or high challenging tasks, such that a failure would not be embarrassing. Those with high need achievement are likely to decide difficult tasks and experiencing that they are challenging, although at their achieved score. Need for social approval score, I received is average. I am little surprised by this score because I lack social skills. Normally, I would like to motivate others to accept my ideas and support them as long as they don’t have any other strong ideas. From this self-assessment, I learned that my need for achievement and social approval score is average.

Analyses: The information received about need for achievement and social approval is very important in my self-concept since they basic need for person. Need for achievement and need for social approval could be related to the concept of expectancy theory of motivation, learned needs theory and employee needs from the textbook. The expectancy theory of motivation based on the idea that how much effort person puts in is related to the behaviours that person believe will lead to favourable outcomes. I can relate this theory because whatever effort I put in to performance well I would expect the results to be high. There are three learned needs theory: Need for achievement, power and affiliation (Social approval). From the learned needs theory Need for achievement and affiliation relate to this survey. I prefer working alone rather than working in teams and I choose moderate to high level of risk, so I can match the requirements and fulfill the needs for achievement. For example, I like individual projects so I can fulfill my need for achievement on my own. I also like to achieve good score, awards and get recognized for the work I do. The need for affiliation is also an important psychological need that you want to fulfill. Mostly, my opinions cannot really be changed by others without strong ideas. I like to conform others expectation and wishes and try to avoid conflicts and confrontations. The other theory that can relate to this is the employee need, which states that "goal-directed forces that people experience". Need for achievement and social approval are the secondary needs of a person. I always think of achievement and social approval as a need that is important to me. For example, If I want to get high marks I would put all my effort to achieve that score; I want others to approve my ideas I would try to create my ideas in certain ways that doesn’t conflict with their thinking. So to achieve my needs I would think of them as goals.

Integrate: From what I learned about my personal needs I can say that my achievement and social approval needs are average. I think these needs are important to have to motivate my own self. As my score is average, I would like my personal need score to be above average because I think that personal needs can help me motivate to do better. I will try to improve my need for achievement and need for social approval score by gaining skills such as self-confidence, personality, values and self-concept. I will try to fulfill my need for achievement and social approval by thinking of them as goals that are important for my future.

Team Roles Preferences Scale

Description: The score I received in this all five important team roles is moderate preference in all of them which is about 10 0r 11 from scale of 3 to 15. I think the score received in encourager correctly defines me. This means to me that I appreciate and support their ideas strongly. When I am going through this assessment, I got moderate score. So it defines me I have a moderate affinity to praise and support the ideas of other team members as encourager. When I was asked to present the teams I also act as gatekeeper and as summarizer so that anyone containing me should not take unnecessary advantage in the meeting. However, I have moderate preference as gatekeeper but I will strongly try to encourage all team members to represent their ideas and participate in the discussion. Furthermore, I try out my best to provide experienced solutions as a harmonizer and fulfill requirement of other team members. My best role is as harmonizer to try to meditate group conflicts and reduce tension. But for as initiator I was on average mark which was little surprising because I was expecting to get strong preference. I have strong skills to identify goals for the meeting and how to work on those goals step by step.

Analysis:

Integrate: An effective encourager will maintain and build greater enthusiasm and commitment by group members.