Human Resource Management Assignment

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Student Name
Student admission number
Institution
Date

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Part A
Understanding Self & Others: TOTAL MARKS 25%
Section 1: understanding yourself= 10%
1. Personality quiz results
Weblink: http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/personality.htm
Personality Quiz Thoughts
Do you agree with the quiz findings? If not, why not?
I agree with quiz findings
What do you think had the greatest impact on shaping your personality? Why?
Conscientiousness emerged to have high scores in my personal traits evaluation. According to
Settles et al., (2012) conscientiousness is a big five trait of being diligent or careful. My last job
had the greatest impact of shaping my personal traits. The job required people with the great
value of self-discipline, acting dutifully and aiming at achieving set goals. Furthermore, the job

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had minimal supervision but daily targets were set and therefore if someone lacks a proper self-
disciple it was difficult for him to hit the target. In addition, the managers were strictly and
therefore I had to avoid trouble in order to perform well through persistence and planning
How does your personality positively contribute to building relationships?
My personality contributes to relationships creation by mentoring people who are goal oriented
in their motives and feel more comfortable when they are organized or well prepared. Research
conducted by Magidson et al (2014) has shown that conscientiousness involves being caring on
people who are around you from colleagues, friends and family to strangers. In addition, my
personality does not upset nor offend people by either actions or words hence enabling me to
build strong relations with those around me despite some ideological differences.
How does your personality cause problems sometimes with Relationships?
Sometimes my personality causes problems with relationships as others see me as compulsive
workaholic or perfectionists. Being termed as “workaholic”, the relationship with my friends has
faded away because I spent much time on work.

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2. Communication Style Assessment Results
Weblink: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCS_99.htm
Communication Style Assessment Thoughts
Do you agree with the assessment findings? If not, why not?
I agree with the findings
What do you think had the greatest impact on shaping the way you communicate with
people? Why?
Participation in formal meetings and public speaking had the greatest impact on shaping the way
I communicate with people. Being an eloquent speaker in meetings, I had been able to learn
some key communication skills from meetings.