MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY SPIRITUALITY LEADERSHIP

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI is used in many organizations to determine how employees will interact and solve problems.

Photo: becomingtech.com People prefer a job - not for job  itself, but for a career. The definition of a career has changed over the years.  A career not only refers to a single pathway to work.   ü Careers are 'constructed' through the series of choices we make throughout our lives. ü A career is a life-long process.  It includes the variety of work roles (paid and unpaid) which you undertake throughout your lifetime, such as everyday life roles (parent, volunteer), leisure activities, learning and work. ü Career development is the process of managing life, learning and work. Career development is a term used to describe the management of work-related activity throughout employee life. ü Career development includes providing services (in many different settings) to assist people gain more knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors that help them to manage their career more effectively. ü  ...

Fifteen Characteristics of Self-actualized Person by Dr. Maslow (1968) Although we are all, theoretically, capable of self-actualizing, most of us will not do so, or only to a limited degree. Maslow (1970) estimated that only two percent of people will reach the state of self actualization.  He was particularly interested in the characteristics of people whom he considered to have achieved their potential as persons. By studying 18 people he considered to be self-actualized (including Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein) Maslow (1970) identified 15 characteristics of a self-actualized person.  Characteristics of self-actualizers: 1. They perceive reality efficiently and can tolerate uncertainty; 2. Accept themselves and others for what they are; 3. Spontaneous in thought and action; 4. Problem-centered (not self-centered); 5. Unusual sense of humor; 6. Able to look at life objectively; 7. Highly creative; 8. Resistant to enculturation, but n...

PORTER’S FIVE FORCES MODEL FOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Michael Porter, an authority on competitive strategy, contends that a corporation is most concerned with the intensity of competition within its industry. The level of this intensity is determined by basic competitive forces, as depicted in given f igure. “The collective strength of these forces,” he contends, “determines the ultimate profit potential in the industry, where profit potential is measured in terms of long-run return on invested capital.” In carefully scanning its industry, a corporation must assess the importance to its success of each of five forces: threat of new entrants, rivalry among existing firms, threat of substitute products or services, bargaining power of buyers and bargaining power of suppliers. Also relative power of other stakeholders exists as the sixth force. Source: Wheelen, T. L. & Hunger J. D. (2012). Strategic Management and Business Policy: Toward Global Sustainability.  New Jersey:...