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Activity 5
[Name of the Writer]
[Name of the Institution]
Where do you think you belong?
History shows that there are people who earned the title of great achievers by developing certain characteristics in them. Central element that helped them in earning this title was good management. Managing oneself along with polished talents works best in their favour. This fact cannot be denied that managing oneself is only the factor that brings one closer to the set goals. Knowing from where one belongs to, helps in defining his/her destination (Drucker et al, 2008). Goals are identified and achieved only when one comes to know the place he/she belongs to. Knowing about the place one belongs to helps in transforming a person. An ordinary person could be transformed into an extraordinary person only when one comes to know about the place where they belong at. A performer turns into an outstanding performer only by hard work and competence. Like musicians, mathematicians, scientists and other career holders, I came to know about my sense of belonging in my teenage years. By identifying of my place of belonging helped me a lot in knowing about my destination. It also showed me a way to move towards my future goals (Schermerhorn Jr et al, 2019). It is my belief that one comes across many hardships while trying to find a place to belong to but over time factors such as my strengths, performances and my values led me onto the right path. My strengths and values guided me best in knowing who I am and where I belong to.
Another thing that helped me in knowing myself and my belonging is the art of exploring my weakness. In my early teens and during my courses, I came to know about things and offers I must refuse to take. Saying no to things that do not suit me helped in bringing me closer to achieving the things that I wanted in my life. The time, I learned to say no to things that were not of my taste, I started knowing more about myself. It helped me in knowing what I am good at. Other factors that assisted me in knowing more includes my beliefs, values and communication skills. From the early days of my academic life, I came to know about my ambition of earning a good name in the global business as a manager. I wanted to be a manager at a global multinational company. With time, I came to know that I am good at managing things. For a successful career, it is important to know the place I feel a sense of belonging to, as it helps in defining the tracks that takes one towards the actual destination that one dreams of. I would be able to avail opportunities only when I would come to know about my strengths. Keeping in consideration my choices that I made till date, I came to know that I would set a good example in a multicultural global business that would have operations in different parts of the world.
What is critical for you to be an outstanding manager in the multicultural environment?
Knowing about belonging is important for tracking a good career in life, but sometimes a few factors hinder our way. For becoming an outstanding manager, I would identify the strengths firstly, that would help me in managing things at the workplace. Another important thing is to keep in consideration, my growth as a manager in company. I would make a list of things I would be doing and avoiding. I would observe my current actions in light of my desired goals. After some time I would make a comparison, whether the things that I planned to achieve happened on time or not. Making a comparison would be essential for me, in order to be an outstanding manager. Comparison of growth at multinational global business would suggest whether to change my strategy of working or stick to it. For becoming an exceptional manager in a multicultural organization, I would take feedback of the people whom I would be managing. Feedback would depict how well I am doing as a manager and how efficiently I am adjusting my workers as per their expertise.
For effective working in a multinational organization as manager, it is important to have a commonality with the organization’s values (Stewart et al, 2019). I never expect any organization to have the same values as me but I expect, the organization would be having a close relationship with my values. Conflict between my beliefs and values of organization would detract me in performing my duties. Contribution would be another important tool in managing things at the multinational organization (Theodoulides et al, 2019). Strength and evaluation of my performance both are critical to manage culturally diverse organization. Managing requires taking responsibilities for relationships (Kostova et al, 2018). For becoming a good manager, I need to understand the fact that other people working in an organization are human too having their capacities, skills, values and ways of doing things. For increasing productivity of my co-workers, it would be important for me to know my co-workers and this I could do only by building a good relationship with them. For becoming an effective and outstanding manager, I would like to know more about strengths, values, mode of working and interests of my co-workers. Developing healthy communication is another factor that would help me in becoming good manager at a multinational organization (Bauman et al, 2018). Communication becomes a central factor to be focused when culturally diverse people work at same place, as it helps in bringing people closer to each other.
References:
Bauman, A. A., & Shcherbina, N. V. (2018). Millennials, technology, and cross-cultural communication. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 18(3).
Drucker, P. F. (2008). Managing oneself. Harvard Business Review Press.
Schermerhorn Jr, J. R., Davidson, P., Woods, P., Factor, A., Junaid, F., & McBarron, E. (2019). Management. John Wiley & Sons.
Stewart, G. L., & Brown, K. G. (2019). Human resource management. Wiley.
Theodoulides, L., Kormancová, G., & Cole, D. (2019). Leading in the Age of Innovations: Change of Values and Approaches. Routledge.
Kostova, T., Nell, P. C., & Hoenen, A. K. (2018). Understanding agency problems in headquarters-subsidiary relationships in multinational corporations: A contextualized model. Journal of Management, 44(7), 2611-2637.
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