Cultural and Behavioral Expectations of Studying for a Degree in Business Management

This e-portfolio discusses the cultural and behavioral expectations of studying for a degree in business management, the importance of peer-to-peer support and team working, and the student's personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in relation to learning. It includes references to relevant research studies and offers suggestions for implementation.

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(Identify and explain topics of
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(Detail what you have learnt about the
topic)
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different from what was taught so avoid presenting a write
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(Identify how learning will
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Cultural and behavioural
expectations of studying for
a degree in business
management (Document 1)
Cultural expectations are basically the messages
that the persons must ascribe about what is
acceptable and what is not. These expectations
also offer some cultural norms and standards of
behaviour that are place forward by our social
system. Behavioural expectation is stated as the
big goals in relation to behaviour, these are mainly
developed for the schools and colleges. This is
used as a model which helps the teachers to set up
some guidelines for the students(Chiang, Y.H. and
Hsu, C.C., 2021). In my ongoing study business
management, I had subtle knowledge of cultural
and behavioural expectation but in this procedure
of study, I got to realize that these have a major
impact on influencing the students(Hollebeek, L.D.,
2018). I had realized that the learners or students in
colleges or schools came from different cultures,
which may have various views towards the
education. There are some cultural differences
which has impacted me understanding the concept
due to not having something common in cultural
The learnings that I had get from
the cultural and behavioural
expectations of studying for a
degree in business management
is that the learners or students
who study in colleges or schools
came from different cultures and
backgrounds, which may have
various views towards the
education system(Kumar, R.,
Zusho, A. and Bondie, R., 2018).
The major impact of this
learning in my lifestyle is the
change of behaviour. It has also
changed my living style in order
According to me, the learnings
from cultural and behavioural
expectations of studying a
degree in business management
can be implemented in many
ways which moreover will help
an individual as well as an
organization. In schools or
colleges to maintain a discipline
or decorum of the environment.
The colleges must implement
the method of uniform to
maintain the equality in the
colleges or schools. The
implementation of the rule of
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activities with the peers. It is a major factor in
changing my behaviour and the way of living
because to interact with someone that I am going
to meet first time has to be in some different
approach(Hidayah, N., Widodo, S.E. and Abdullah, T.,
2020). In this degree of business management
other than the lecture knowledge, a vital life
knowledge that I get to understand is that if
someone want to indulge in the environment of
schools or colleges where students came from
various cultures then that individual have to
change its behaviour. I have also come to know
about the companies must maintain the culture
where for every employee it is made to be
compulsory to follow the uniform designed by the
company.
to make a new relation with the
other students of different
cultures. These skills also help
the organization to make an
effective connection with their
employees which moreover
increases the profitability of the
company. These learnings have
improved my lifestyle as
compare to the previous one. It
enables to become more focus
on my studies.
regular attendance makes the
students brighter and help them
to understand the concepts
better(Sun, H., Teh, P.L. and
Linton, J.D., 2018). It is very
helpful for the organization as
well which enables the
company to maintain the
decorum of the workplace by
enabling it compulsory for the
employees to wear a proper
formal uniform. The companies
should also focus on making the
working hours a little bit flexible.
The importance of peer-to-
peer support and team
working to enhance learning
experience (Document 2)
Team working is basically conducting a work and
complete it effectively with the help of team
mates. It helps me to study in more effective and
fun way because working with some other
individual makes it able for me to generate new
ideas and see the circumstances in very different
way. If I am working in a limited time frame,
team-working enables to analyse the situation in
more effective manner(Wang, Z., 2018). It also
always me the chance to get some knowledge
The learnings that I had get from
peer to peer support and team
working to enhance the learning
experience are supportive nature
is imperative in order to get
success in the future
life(McKeigue, P., Miller, D. and
Robinson, P., 2019). The team
working has also enables various
skills in my life like
According to me, what I have
learned from the peer to peer
support and team working can
be implemented in the schools
or colleges. It majorly helps the
students to conduct an effective
communication with their peers.
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from my team mates. This factor has plays a vital
role in enhancing my learning experience because
it enables to develop various skills such as
cooperation, effective communication, listening,
interpersonal etc. I get to realize that the problems
are solved much effectively by the team work.
Peer to peer support is the support that are given
by the people who are in the same group or having
the same experiences. In the colleges or schools
these support is considered as a vital factor among
the students. This peer to peer support plays an
important role in my life in enhancing the learning
experience. It enables a humble nature in myself
towards my peer that will help me in my growth
of experience in learning. In my college for a
degree of business management I got a very much
help from my peers in my study. Whenever I am
facing some difficulty in understanding some
concept in business management they supported
and helped me to get an understanding of that
topic in business management(Livingstone, H.,
Deighton, C. and Luther, R., 2020).
communication, interpersonal
etc. These leanings have an
positive impact on my career
like it enables me to conduct an
effective communication with
other individual. It helps me to
effectively do the work in a team
and provide my best output in
the team working. These
learnings has enabled me to get
a better understanding of my
peers and their nature which
moreover helps me to analyse
the various facts about them.
The peer to peer support and
team working has added various
skill that will further help me in
studying and understanding the
various concepts(Rimmer, A.,
2019). In further studies and
future growth of an individual
these learnings play an
important role in enhancing the
capabilities to do the work and
conduct much more effective
and efficient work.
The effective process of
implementation of this learnings
are by enabling the engagement
between the students. This helps
them to know about each other
much more effective(Costa and
et. al., 2021). These learnings
can be implement into the
organization by the effective
managers and It may be done by
offering regular and proper
training and development
programmes at the work place
so that the company has highly
skilled labour and employees.
For enabling the team work the
employees have to
communicate with each other to
make an effective relation so
that it will be helpful for the
organization for doing the
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effective and efficient.
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Student’s personal
strengths in relation to
learning
W
Student’s personal weaknesses in
relation to learning.
O
Identified opportunities
on gaining skills and
degree
T
Threats envisaged in
relation to student’s
attainment of
opportunities
SWOT Analysis
Strength.
Communications skills:
According to me, I think I have good
communications skills which will going
to help me enhancing the learning and
my skills in future. With the help of
good communication skills, I can able to
interact to more people and will able to
achieve my goals and objectives more
efficiently and effectively.
Problem solving:
I have the ability to solve the problem if
occurs any in order to achieve the
objectives effectively and efficiently. I
have the capabilities to find out the best
solutions for the problems (Huang and
et.al., 2019).
Weaknesses.
Fear of failure: - I have realized that I started to
fear at the time of failure. I always have a thought
of fear in my mind due to which I can fail and can
never going to achieve anything in my life. From
this fear it makes me unable to try and learn
something new in my life. This is biggest
weakness that I have to remove out from my life.
Bad decision making: - According to me I
always made a bad decision in my life and had to
face several issues(Phillips and et. al., 2021). The
implications sometimes are favourable but majorly
it has affected my whole lifestyle.
Opportunity
Expansion of technology:
The technology are enhancing day
by day which provides me the
opportunity to new learn new facts
and things. I can learn through the
websites and various platforms in
the online mode from different
universities which are far away
from my place.
Less cost: It will be a great
opportunity for me if it occurs
less cost to gain the same
learning through some cost
effective platform or medium.
Threats
Ineffective plan: - An effective
plan has a major threat in my
learnings in the life. A poor
planning of activities enables
the work done to be very
ineffective(Qasem, G.A. and
Qusef, A., 2019).
Over skilled or learned:- I
believe it can be a major threat
for me because a research has
shown that the person who are
seeking to learn new skills may
develop a rudeness in their
lifestyle.
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