After
reading Developing
a Plan For Self-Evaluation, Leadership Do's and Don'ts, and Is
Your Leadership Bicycle Broken? it
has helped in evaluating both my strengths and weaknesses. This also
made it easy for me to pick out some personal weaknesses that I
need/want to work on. When taking the two tests I was also able to
get a feeling for what my strengths and weaknesses when leading
people may be. The emotional intelligence test portrayed me as having
a high emotional intelligence. Overall this included that I keep
working and do not take time out of my day to reflect on myself
because I get caught up in my work. I find this extremely accurate
as I often put work ahead of anything else until it gets done. Often
times I am bad at giving myself time to relax or recoup on top of the
time for reflection. When tasks are not done it bothers me. There are
many times when it is difficult for me to sit and relax when I know
that work, even if it is not due soon, is not done. The other
personality test that I took revealed that I am an ENTJ type. This
means my four dimensions of personality preferences are Extroverted,
iNtuitive,
Thinking,
and
Judging.
In reading the conclusion for the ENTJ personality type it revealed
that these types of people have a natural tendency to direct, need
little encouragement when it comes to tasks, see what needs to be
done and are good about assigning people to get tasks done, and have
good analytical and planning skills. This is very accurate to me as
these are what I feel to be some of my strong suits. Two weaknesses
that I know I have that I would like to work on are (1) not easily
trusting others which sometimes makes it hard to trust that tasks get
done or people do what they say they are going to do. As a result of
this I often catch myself wanting to micromanage just to make sure
that what needs to be done gets done. (2) It is also easy for me to
get tunnel vision when working on certain tasks. In getting tunnel
vision I often try to accomplish tasks by myself and do not sit at
rest until they are completed. This could be bad as my situational
awareness could be effected. I felt that these leadership tools made
me realize a lot about my personality in general. Although they are
things I could pick out they aren't typically things that I think
about. In conclusion, I learned a few things about myself and enjoyed
the process.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Maslow v. Herzberg
Maslow v. Herzberg
While looking into both Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs there are two large differences that I noticed. Maslow's hierarchy tends to be geared more toward life as a while where as Herzberg's concentrates heavily on success in a workplace.
Maslow's model portrays needs as endless occurring goals and is split into five levels. These levels are psychological, safety, social, esteem, and self actualization. As one is met another emerges and you climb your way up the list. Herzberg's model is split into two categories and simply lists actions that can be taken to get a good effect from certain actions. These two categories are hygiene and motivators.
I took the quiz to figure out where I fall in Maslow's schema. There were a few things that I realized about myself in doing so. My biological, safety, sense of belonging/love, and esteem (deficiencies) are all fulfilled. My transcendence and self actualization (focus on personal growth) are fulfilled as well. The one thing that stuck out to me was that my cognitive was not fulfilled. The cognitive aspect of his model is actively seeking beauty and having an interest in the arts central to me. It sounds harsh but I do not care much to make an interest in arts or actively seeking out beauty a mainstream in my life.
After looking at and comparing/contrasting both Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs I prefer Herzberg's. It was pointed out in the book Company Officer that (Smoke) "Maslow's concept suggests one-way movement, that we are always moving up the steps in the hierarchy." (P. 139, para. 2) I completely agree with this. Although Maslow's hierarchy enables someone of authority, such as a company officer, to realize that their staffing has needs, everyone has some sort of turbulence in life. Because people experience turbulence in life it is never one straight climb to the top. There will always be parts of Maslow's hierarchy of needs that are either inconsistent, exist constantly, or cease to exist for periods of time. Therefore, Maslow's one-way movement is not accurate to me. Herzberg's model to me makes more sense. It is very easy to relate to and portrays that without certain actions and individual will not get nor receive certain effects. This, to me, is accurate.
While looking into both Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs there are two large differences that I noticed. Maslow's hierarchy tends to be geared more toward life as a while where as Herzberg's concentrates heavily on success in a workplace.
Maslow's model portrays needs as endless occurring goals and is split into five levels. These levels are psychological, safety, social, esteem, and self actualization. As one is met another emerges and you climb your way up the list. Herzberg's model is split into two categories and simply lists actions that can be taken to get a good effect from certain actions. These two categories are hygiene and motivators.
I took the quiz to figure out where I fall in Maslow's schema. There were a few things that I realized about myself in doing so. My biological, safety, sense of belonging/love, and esteem (deficiencies) are all fulfilled. My transcendence and self actualization (focus on personal growth) are fulfilled as well. The one thing that stuck out to me was that my cognitive was not fulfilled. The cognitive aspect of his model is actively seeking beauty and having an interest in the arts central to me. It sounds harsh but I do not care much to make an interest in arts or actively seeking out beauty a mainstream in my life.
After looking at and comparing/contrasting both Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs I prefer Herzberg's. It was pointed out in the book Company Officer that (Smoke) "Maslow's concept suggests one-way movement, that we are always moving up the steps in the hierarchy." (P. 139, para. 2) I completely agree with this. Although Maslow's hierarchy enables someone of authority, such as a company officer, to realize that their staffing has needs, everyone has some sort of turbulence in life. Because people experience turbulence in life it is never one straight climb to the top. There will always be parts of Maslow's hierarchy of needs that are either inconsistent, exist constantly, or cease to exist for periods of time. Therefore, Maslow's one-way movement is not accurate to me. Herzberg's model to me makes more sense. It is very easy to relate to and portrays that without certain actions and individual will not get nor receive certain effects. This, to me, is accurate.
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