Bac 3 - Practice Career Professionalism Notes
Bac 3 - Practice Career Professionalism Notes
PERSONALITY
Many factors make a person unique in his or her own way. One of this is
personality. We can define personality as the distinctive and characteristic pattern of
thought, emotion, and behavior that define an individuals personal style of interacting
with the physical and social environment.
Personality plays an important part in the identification and choice of specific career. The
first step to career choice and planning understands oneself. According to Holland (1985), a
person may possess the following personality types:
Realistic technician/engineer
Investigate scientist/chemist
Artistic musician/sculptor
Social teacher/social worker
Enterprising salesperson/lawyer
Conventional accountant/banker
Realistic and Investigative types lack interpersonal skills and have difficulty with
emotional expression of feelings. The artistic and social types are emotional in the expression of
feelings and may dislike highly ordered and repetitive activities.
The personality type one has is linked to specific work environments.
ASPECTS OF AN INDIVIDUALS PERSONALITY
1. MENTAL ASPECT refers to his intellectual capacity.
2. EMOTIONAL ASPECT a person emotional make up is shown in his likes and dislikes.
3. SOCIAL ASPECT how well a person conducts himself with other people and how well
he observes the rules of etiquette that govern society.
4. PHYSICAL ASPECT heredity and environment determine the entire physiological
system of an individual. Posture, body build and size, compression and facial expressions,
as well as the appropriateness and condition of clothes, comprise the physical appearance of
a person. It has a lot to do with personality.
5. MORAL ASPECT this aspect personality has to do with a persons awareness of the
differences between what is wrong or right.
6. SPIRITUAL ASPECT is the consciousness of the higher values in life.
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DEVELOPMENT a continuous change for improvement in all aspects of the person: motor,
social, emotional, intellectual, and moral.
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP (outer self) Personal and social relationship of a person
with others which develops systems of shared expectations.
INTRAPERSONAL DYNAMICS (inner self) dealing with ones inner self, like emotions
VISION Philosophy of life.
Opportunities are external factors in the environment which facilitate goal attainment. For
example: opportunities to work abroad, scholarships made available to students, job
opportunities, etc.
Threats are those that serve as stumbling blocks to goal attainment.
2. Inventory of Resource Requirements
What is needed to realize goals, like personality attributes, required competencies,
educational and academic requirement, etc?
3. Action Plan
This consists of specific mission-vision statement, long term goals specific objectives and
action plans that will best respond to the mission and the goals. The plan must also
describe the mechanics of implementation like when, how it will be done, who will be
involved, etc.
All these information provide the basis for effective goal setting and action planning. A
person must know his strengths, limitations and inner resources so that he can plan ways
of using his assets to his best advantage. Improve his weaknesses and overcome threats
for goal attainment. He also needs to know what is required to reach certain goals so that
he can plan ways to meet them.
After identifying requirements, identify the steps, strategies and actions you will take to
satisfy each requirement. This is your action plan. It must include a timetable for
accomplishment- when to start and when it is expected to be finished.
6. Identify needed resources
Identify what resources are needed suppliers, materials, money, etc.
How much?
How many?
Where will you get these resources?
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ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS
Learning to commit oneself to goals and career
Making a public commitment to something makes people more hesistant to make
changes. When one has showed his/her commitment to something especially if this done
publicly, the person will ultimately tend to carry out.Very often, after setting our own goals, we
may have the tendency to set this aside or even forget them. Thus it is important that one does
not only identify or set goals but makes it public in order to elicit greater chance of attainment.
The Organizational Climate. This is one factor that must be considered to satisfied people to
work.
There are two Aspects of Organizational Climate
1. Organizational Character which consists of the structure, strategy, purposes, and goals,
and internal social system.
2. Management practices which cgoal setting consists of goal setting, task management
feedback, and people relationships.
Five Characteristics of a Good Organizational Climate
1. Clarity is the individuals sense of understanding or organizational goals and policies and
of being clear about the job, the feelings that things are organized and running smoothly.
2. Recognition is the feeling that the people are rewarded and recognized for doing good
work as constructed of the criticism for poor performance is more likely to be received than
recognition to good performance.
3. Commitment is defined as the feeling of continuing support to good achievement related
to acceptance and realism of goals.
4. Responsibility is the feeling of personal accountability for work comma, a sense of
individual initiative.
5. Teamwork is the feeling of belonging to an organization characterized by cohesion ,
mutual warmth and support, trust and pride.
Two Key Factors that Determine How Employee Will Perform the Job
1. His Motivation These factors hold the answer to why an employee behaves the way he
does and why one is more productive than another under similar circumstances.
2. His Ability An individuals value system made up of many but interrelated factors affects
his perception of a particular task and helps to determine his inclination to perform.
The influence of this factor is filtered through the individuals needs co cycled with
organizational conditions leads to his motivation to peform at some degree of capacity.
The motivation of an individual in addition to being determined by his peceived needs is also
affected by organizational conditions positively or negatively impact motivation depends on the
organizations existing in the company.
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Rules of Health
1. Get sufficient exercise.
2. Provide for an adequate amount of sleep.
3. Maintain good habits of eating
4. Cultivate personal neatness.
3. Housekeeping. Storage areas shall be kept free from accumulations of materials that constitute
hazards from tripping, fire, explosion, or pest harborage vegetation control shall be exercised
when necessary.
4. Clearance limits. Clearance signs to warn of clearance limits shall be provided.
5. Rolling Railroad Cars. De rail and /or bumper blocks shall be provided on spur railroad tracks
where a rolling car could contact other cars being worked, enter a building, work or traffic areas.
6. Guarding. Covers and /or guardrails shall be provided to protect personnel from the hazards of
open pits, tanks etc.