Management of Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development

Running head: MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Management of Personal Work Priorities and Professional Development
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Table of Contents
Assessment Task 1.....................................................................................................................2
Assessment Task 2...................................................................................................................10
Assessment Task 3...................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................16

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Assessment Task 1
1. Self Appraisal and Contribution to the Performance Review
Self appraisal can be defined as process of self evaluation of an employee regarding
his or her job performance (Moon 2013). It is one of the major and the most significant or
important requirement in performance review of that particular employee. Before the
appraisal is being conducted, the respective organizational manager would ask the specific
employee for completing the self evaluation by filling up a form and this particular form
would be utilized as the basis of discussion during annual performance review meeting
(Zepeda 2013). In that meeting, both the employee and the manager would discuss about the
results of self appraisal and finally negotiate the final evaluation on the basis of the
perceptions of both manager and the employee. The actual self appraisals are the subsequent
parts of the performance management or performance review and these could even take the
basic form of evaluation process for progressing towards the previously defined annual
performance standards and objectives after involvement of the employee in rating her or
himself with the help of the same rating form that the manager is using (Stewart 2014).
Hence, self appraisal has a major contribution to the overall performance review.
2. Peer Appraisal with one Benefit
Peer appraisal can be defined as the form of 360 degree feedback as well as process of
performance appraisal (Zuber-Skerritt 2013). The peers of any individual provide significant
feedbacks for the individuals that provide the most unique perspective towards work or
objective achievement of that particular individual. While the mangers or the other systems of
appraisal eventually tend in providing the core perspective over targets as well as objectives
achieved by the individual; the peer appraisal is responsible for tending to provide the
perspective over the inter personal skills of that individual and the interaction base with the

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client and team, where is being working (Wilson 2013). It is an important and significant part
of the employee performance appraisal system.
The major benefit of peer appraisal is that it increments the accuracy and clarity in
appraisal procedure.
3. Three Benefits of Planning Work
The planning of work comprises of some of the most important and significant
benefits and amongst them, these are as follows:
i) Provides a Proper Direction: The first and the foremost advantage of the planning
work is that it eventually provides with a proper and specific direction (Dixon et al. 2014).
Without plans or goals, the specific organization or individual could not do any type of work
in the long run. The plans avoid all kinds of drift situations and also ensure that the short
range efforts are supporting and harmonizing with the future objectives.
ii) Focuses Attention on Goals: Another significant and important benefit of planning
work is that it helps in focusing major attention to the goals and objectives (Hill, Beisiegel
and Jacob 2013). Such plans are responsible for keeping people, who carry them out much
focused over the anticipated outcomes.
iii) Helps in Anticipation of Problems: The third distinct benefit of the planning work
is that it is much helpful in the anticipation of various problems and issues and even make
subsequent changes for avoiding these issues.
4. SMART in Relation to Goals
The acronym of SMART comprises of various slightly different variations that could
be extremely useful for the purpose of providing the most comprehensive definition for