Analysis of Personality, Values, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership in Hotel & Hospitality Management

Running Head: HOTEL & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
Hotel & Hospitality Management
Student’s Name
University Name
Author’s Note

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Executive Summary
Enthusiasm, leadership and peer attraction are the major traits of my personality. Further in depth
analysis of my personality type have been done in the report by implementing the six traits of
personality model. Other aspects of self awareness like values and motivators have also been
highlighted here. I incorporate target fulfilment, commitment and goodwill as my most important
values. Self-regulation, empathy, motivation as well as Social Skill are the most important
aspects of my emotional intelligence. This report also incorporates the 4 aspirations of leadership
model for monitoring my self-awareness regarding leadership. In terms of power relation I
believe that there should be exercising authority of a single personality in terms of organisational
success. In terms of decision making and planning, I prefer to undertake the six step decision
making model. The justification for the selection of the model and how it will help in my career
planning have been discussed in the report in detail.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2.0 Self awareness...........................................................................................................................4
2.1 Personality..............................................................................................................................4
2.1.1 Defining Personality Traits and their importance...........................................................4
2.1.2 Personality Types based on this model...........................................................................5
2.1.3 Reflection on my personality traits.................................................................................6
2.1 Values and motivators............................................................................................................6
2.2.1 My Values.......................................................................................................................6
3.0 Emotional intelligence...............................................................................................................7
3.1 Definition and Importance.........................................................................................................7
4.0 Leadership..................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Power and politics................................................................................................................10
5.0 Decision making and planning................................................................................................10
6.0 Reference List and Bibliography.............................................................................................13

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1.0 Introduction
This report makes a detailed analysis of the personal self awareness based on the personality,
values and motivators, emotional intelligence, leadership traits as well as power and politics
associated with the organisational setting. Besides, the decision making and planning for the
personal career advancement have been evaluated on the basis of two decision making and
planning model also.
2.0 Self awareness
Self-awareness is essential in skills development which is achieved through improvements of the
assessed gaps between desired future situation and current situation. Furthermore, self-awareness
helps in the determination of strengths, weakness, threats and opportunities that surround an
individual.
2.1 Personality
2.1.1 Defining Personality Traits and their importance
This section will concentrate upon the understanding of the awareness regarding the major
factors of my personality. In order to analyse my personality, the big five personality model have
been applied here. The five primary personality traits of people are the basis of this model. These
are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion or introversion, agreeableness and lastly natural
reactions. The openness of personality is a measure of the creative spirit for the urge of learning
through new experiences and gaining new knowledge (Jackson and Wilton 2017).
Conscientiousness, on the other hand, is a measure of life and work, which is seemingly achieved
through thorough organisation and understanding of making plans and implementing them. The
basic implication is that if a person is scoring high on conscientiousness, it implies he or she is