Business Management Assignment: Personal Development and Assessment

This business management assignment addresses several key topics. It begins by examining the negative impacts of technology on work-life balance, including effects on employee sleep, appetite, and physical health, and then discusses strategies businesses can adopt to promote a healthy balance, such as prioritizing work-home boundaries and employee health checkups. The assignment also explores developing new work strategies, including time tracking, breaks, and proactive task management. Furthermore, it delves into personal development planning, outlining its components like accountability, discipline, and balancing caution and risk. The assignment also explains the concept of behavioral assessment in the workplace and its advantages, such as predicting employee performance and ensuring fairness. Finally, it addresses different learning styles and the importance of identifying them to improve information processing and learning outcomes. The solution provided includes references to support the answers.

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Table of Contents
Answer 9..........................................................................................................................................2
Answer 10........................................................................................................................................2
Answer 11........................................................................................................................................2
Answer 12........................................................................................................................................3
Answer 13........................................................................................................................................3
Answer 14........................................................................................................................................3
Answer 15........................................................................................................................................4
Answer 16........................................................................................................................................4
Answer 17........................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Answer 9.
Negative effects of technology on work life balance
The advancement of technology has affected the mental health of the employees in the
organization. These are affecting the sleep of the employees, more than 57% of the individuals
feel that the long working hours is affecting their sleep, more than 23% had loss of appetite and
more than 27% individuals experienced different physical issues (Andreou, Papastavrou &
Merkouris, 2014).
Answer 10.
Strategies business can adopt to ensure healthy work life balance
Determining the priorities between work and home as this will help in creating balance in
the work life
Proper establishment of boundaries between personal and professional life as this will
help employees in spending quality time with the employees
Lastly, taking care of the health of the employees such as full body check up as this will
help in motivating the employees (Andreou, Papastavrou & Merkouris, 2014)
Answer 11.
Ways to develop new work strategies
Proper tracking of the time that is spent by the employees on the work performed by
them
Taking regular breaks is essential in increasing productivity

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Setting self imposed deadlines as this will help in completing tasks on time
Employees require to quit multi tasking
The employees need to be proactive, not reactive in nature
Answer 12.
Ways to manage time at work
Proper prioritizing the task as this will help in performing urgent tasks on time
Reviewing the progress and need a contingency plan as this will help in managing time at
work (Andreou, Papastavrou & Merkouris, 2014)
Answer 13.
Concept of personal development planning
It is the process of creating action plan that is based on reflection, goal setting and
awareness for personal development that is within the context of education, career for self-
improvement.
Answer 14.
Components of personal development plan
Always be accountable
Build accurate discipline plans
Healthy balance between professional and personal life
Be curious in nature as this will help in challenging yourself to perform better
Learning to balance caution and risk factors

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Answer 15.
Concept of behavioral assessment in workplace
The behavioral assessment at workplace serves as the powerful tool at all levels of
management as this identifies the preferences of the work that is associated with emotions and
behavior. The different promotional activities have to be performed by the different levels in the
workplace, as this will help in solving such issues.
Answer 16.
Advantages of behavioral assessment and appraisal
Proper prediction of the performance of employees
The fairness of the employees regarding their tasks
Positive reaction of the candidates
Proper quality of feedback and acceptance (Willingham, Hughes & Dobolyi, 2015)
Confidence in the results
Answer 17.
Learning styles and importance of identifying learning style
Visual (Spatial)
Verbal (Linguistic)
Solitary (Intrapersonal)
Social (Interpersonal)
Aural (Auditory-Musical)

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It is important to identify the different learning styles, as it is the based on the strengths,
preferences and weaknesses of the individuals. In order to achieve the best in each field of
learning, proper learning styles are essential to be done as this will help in processing the entire
information.

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References
Andreou, C., Papastavrou, E., & Merkouris, A. (2014). Learning styles and critical thinking
relationship in baccalaureate nursing education: a systematic review. Nurse education
today, 34(3), 362-371.
Willingham, D. T., Hughes, E. M., & Dobolyi, D. G. (2015). The scientific status of learning
styles theories. Teaching of Psychology, 42(3), 266-271.