Paper about Organizational Behavior

My profile is quite unique to others. My personality characteristics are: progressive 21st century leadership, ability to sense vision in accomplishing goals through transformation and transaction with followers, somewhat intuitive, skilled in collaboration and problem-solving techniques, organized in ways time is on my side, love a mechanistic organizational design, and want the company culture I can grow professionally and career path in Human Resources with (Schermerhorn, 2012, p.

W-34, 44, 48, 50, & 52-53).The self-assessment results reflect the profile management foundations (PMF) of an individual who possesses the successful skills to manage and lead others, with the ability to compromise with their workforce as conflicts occur within an organization. On the A Twenty-First Century Manager assessment, my score was 9/10. I think back to all the times that I have stepped up to be a leader from group projects and consulting; I have always known how to be a great leader. Some are born to be a leader. According to Shane Scott, the numerous studies done have shown genes affect a host of leadership dimensions.

Some could be the attitude towards leadership, ability to lead a group, and even the willingness to step into that leadership role (Scott, 2010). I have always understood the mechanics of how to be an effective leader; my generation tends to be more open-minded, allowing leaders to utilize their team more than before. I strive to help an organization succeed in their mission and help create an effective team with my leadership of relying on the team to support the goal.I scored 25 in both being a transformational and transactional leader.

As a transformational leader, are governed by the vision, goals, and objectives of an organization. Recently, my successful experience has been with an organization in the efforts of empowering veterans to get back in the workforce. I was able to develop my own way of consulting them on their resume and career goals. I recreated the resume worksheet that is stimulating to the eye to look like a complete resume that shows where the content needs to be. This new form is still in use today.

During my time with the organization, I was able to give hope to clients, help clients successfully gain employment, and empower them to help themselves. The advice given is still circling within the organization to their clients.As far as my ability to be a transactional leader, I have worked with a broad spectrum of generations in the workforce. A diverse generational workforce is a key part of moving into the future. We all can learn from one another and use this knowledge to make things work better than before. For Example: my personal experience is that I used the advice given from a traditionalist to incorporate data to give to him, about recruiting efforts.

This traditional thinker did not fully understand what I was telling him, by telling him what I did in recruiting. So I had to go back and run a report in excel, so that he would understand better. After just explaining to him my recruiting efforts in a statistical report, he was able to truly understand my efforts. It is important to be able to adapt to changes or generational “hiccups” to accomplish the goals of an organization.I am not as intuitive as others, with a score of 6/12. Through my experience I prefer to have hard evidence to make a decision.

Partly, I think this is due to the lack of experience I have currently and once I have been in the workforce longer, I will be able to increase this skill. According to some psychologists, “intuition often mimics the results of more analytically based judgments… that can also lead to biases and errors” (Frantz, 2006). I think this is partly why I have not been so intuitive in my decisions.You can’t have leadership without having to battle conflicts in the workplace. My strongest is compromise (score of 18) and problem-solving (19).

I have always been the type to help out with problems of others since I was very young. Of course, the best way to be effective is having open communication with co-workers and bosses. This ensures the reduction of conflicts. Being able to talk through issues and come up with solutions makes a better workforce and team. The key is to respect the opinions and beliefs of others.

I scored an 11 for time management. I have always been able to be organized and built schedules to keep up with tasks and appointments. I also have done well working around schedules to get things done, and even have projects and such done ahead of time. It is important as a leader, since you have to prioritize tasks in order to get the important tasks accomplished for the organization to fulfill their goal.I am more in favor of a mechanistic design of an organization with my score being above 64 (Schermerhorn, 2012, p.

W-53). My preference is an organization, where goals are defined by top-management and procedures are specified to me. Also, there are distinct lines between management and the team. I would like to make sure the work I am doing is in line with the mission of the organization.

My professional goal is to grow with a company and be valuable to them. From the Which Culture Fits You assessment, it was no surprise that I scored a four: the academy. I am not a big risk taker when it comes to career jobs and job hopping. I would like to stay with one company and be promotable and learn more about the organization.With all of my attributes, it speaks to me that my career choice in Human Resources is a perfect fit for me. Not only are we compromising with employees and managers, but we are there to help the organization obtain their mission and goals.

I do feel with the 20th century changes in technology, morals, and values in our society, we need to rely on each other to be successful in future businesses. I have been able to use my “millennial” mind to help other generations understand how to work with the newer workforce and take a chance on some of the ideas. Fresher ideas can lead to better alignment of organizational goals. Appendix ASelf-Assessment Score Sheet Directions: Complete the following self-assessments: A Twenty-First-Century Manager, “TT” Leadership Style, Intuitive Ability, Conflict Management Strategies, Time Management Profile, Organizational Design Preference, and Which Culture Fits You?” These self-assessments are located in Week 1 of your course shell. Read the scoring narrative provided at the end each self-assessment and record your score in the appropriate area below.

Then, read the interpretation narrative and write a brief interpretation of what your score means.