A Reflective Study

RUNNING HEAD: A REFLECTIVE STUDY
A REFLECTIVE STUDY
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Table of Contents
Response to ELEMENT 1:.........................................................................................................2
AUTONOMOUS LEARNING..............................................................................................2
RESPONSE TO ELEMENT 2:..................................................................................................8
ETHICS AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT......................................................................8
Response to ELEMENT 3:.......................................................................................................10
REFLECTION ON ENHANCED ORGANISATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND
REFLECTION.....................................................................................................................10
References –.............................................................................................................................16

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Response to ELEMENT 1:
AUTONOMOUS LEARNING
Organizational behavior is the current behavioral status of a company which also
encompasses a vast and complex spectrum of possibilities in with respect to employee
equations, social and cultural dynamics of a given company. External patterns like consumer
behavior (Zhang and Benyoucef 2016), macro- economy (Van Reenen 2018), micro–
economy (Franco 2017) also affects organizational behavior(Kaiser, LeBreton and Hogan
2015) to a great extent. While the behavioral interplay between different collateral
departments and hierarchical management of the company are the major internal factors
leading to stabilization or disruption of organizational behavior (Närhi 2015) while the
external market and economy trends (Boban, 2017). affects the brand image, brand identity
also affects the behavior of the company responsibly. This I believe, is the most important
segment of corporate psychology (Glavas 2016) that once decides the behavior, learning and
existence of an employee within a specific organizational framework (Battistella De Toni and
Pillon 2016). The name of my organization is Total work FM Pvt. ltd. London where I have
been working as a finance and operations intern for last six months and my experience with
the organizational system of the company has be quite awakening as well as challenging.
There are many challenges that one faces as an intern. When your bag lack the crucial
experiences required to survive socially in a company – autonomous learning becomes very
important which is why I depended more on an autonomous learning than a guided learning
to streamline myself with the workplace psychology.
My company Total Work Force & FM Ltd. provide the right staffing solutions to
address the ‘community and sanitation (Larsen et al. 2017) needs of the residents. It develops
community spirit or ethos by delivering a hygienic, secure and safe environment. My job has
two facets – one is finance and the other is operations. My finance duties involves a range of

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account payable and account receivable duties and that too of different types of accounts –
given the various expenses related to various services of the company that includes security,
cleaning and concierge. While the ‘account keeping’ of different costing and expenses of
company becomes diverse with diversification of workforces (Lal 2015) – it takes a lot of
attention, specifically attention to details (Annabi, Sundaresan and Zolyomi 2017) that to be
maintained continuously over a prolonged period of time, almost describes my entire work
day as an intern, precisely. As an intern, I have certain work targets to meet every day and my
job responsibilities includes – accounting (Kaplan and Atkinson 2015) preparing balance
sheets (Cour-Thimann and Winkler 2016) , auditing (Moroney and Trotman 2016), analyzing
financial reports(Adiloğlu and Vuran 2018) assisting with underwriting procedures and
portfolio management as well. The nature of my work requires an intricate execution of
mathematic – analytical skills as well as application of pragmatic /practical skills in
understanding the entire financial flow of my company. As because, my job profile mostly
requires an edge of emotional and intrapersonal intelligence, autonomous learning becomes a
very important tool to me.
Autonomous learning can be described as a self-paced, self – driven learning which
occurs with the dimensions of one’s own cognitive autonomy and it is critical to every
employee indeed and to interns like me as well. I mostly work from home, maintaining the
company files, databases and easing the cash flow management with guidance of my seniors.
But as it stands, in work from home – though it has its own comforts, the work from home
facility hinders guided learning or contextual learning which happens to apply better to a
collaborative finance team working under one roof of the company. As a matter of fact, while
working from home, I have constantly reflected and introspected into my intrapersonal
behavior, learning styles which are appropriate to me, self-management and work life balance
skills. And found out that – whether or not you constantly work inside or outside the premises

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of home or company, as long as you are a part of it and the system is a part of you – a passion
towards work, self-motivation along with an continuous drive to learn and learn more with
each passing day is the key to a professional success. The learning should be self-paced so
that one can understand and learn the very explicit and implicit aspects of the professional
practice and this has to be coupled with good interpersonal skills in order to work together
ethically, beneficially and peacefully with other members of the team and department.
Workplace conflict is something that you do not face while working from home but a lot of
internal conflicts as in emotions, family related and environmental – are inevitable and these
form of conflicts has to be overdriven by the ‘motivational drive’ towards autonomous
professional learning in order to sustain a work- life balance. Finance is a profession which is
gets monotonous at times due to continuous replication of work processes and similar
outcomes which became quite a challenge in my initial days of internship but with time, I
have learned to see the ‘differences’ between each account or portfolio that I keep. This
minute differences and comparison points extends a great deal of interest arousal in me as I
work meticulously with the numerical figures as if they are attached to an interesting
financial or accounting mystery. I have already learned in my few months of experience, that
finding the right outcome in financing often provides me huge drive to strive further towards
a professional success.
Fundamentally, autonomous learning, is known as student–centered learning that
relates to the modification in the classroom focus from teacher to student or conversely from
the teaching approach to the learning approach, although it has to be collaborative.
Autonomous learning approach is actually based on the constructivist learning theory. It can
be still applied in the same way as we grow up, changing educational institutions as we move
up the academic ladder. The syllabuses broadens, the peers changes, our cognitive skills and
intellectual skills develops with age and as we shift upwards – the guidance of the teachers

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and professors decreases and the learning converges more towards a slightly different
‘autonomous learning’ which includes just the ‘self’ and this form of learning becomes
absolutely imperative when she shift from an academic framework to a professional life
where ‘application’ of the learned knowledge over the years, is asked of you. But the
learning, I believe has to go on for the ‘reservoir or vessel’ of worldly knowledge is in a flux,
it is always transforming, new trends are coming up, technology is booming and the global
companies are using cloud accounting platforms. Responsively, our consciousness and the
drive should boom as well in order to match up with the collateral advancements. An
autonomous learning process uses a very introspective approach to analyze, calculate,
comprehend and apply knowledge in a very subtle way. It uses more intrapersonal skills than
interpersonal skills, to consolidate memory and experiences into an experiential learning. To
a professional growth and career zeal, a self-driven automated learning with a mindful self-
control is very crucial to an effective professional learning. According to me, life is becoming
complicated and so is profession getting compound, given the composite competition
between humans and a quest for exploring the best. But this complicacy has fragmented and
treated as individual segments so to meaningfully comprehend the ‘pieces’ rightly – is the
correct step towards a professional learning. As because, different people are born with
different genes, behavioral and personality traits – its becomes increasingly difficult to assess
them with one tool and the situation gets increasingly adverse under the social circumstances
existent in the contemporary world where each and every one needs to be ‘valued’ both
socially and culturally and also for the kind or type of work someone do in order to earn a
living. There arises human, social, cultural, organizational, national and international
conflicts and all are precisely – the very factorial and multiple forms of individual human
behavior contributing to group behavior which when summed, leads to an organizational
behavior. But it always starts from an individual knowledge, individual feelings, individual