Developing Self-Awareness for Career Growth in Business Management

This report aims to develop self-awareness for career development in event and business management, focusing on obtaining suitable employment and enhancing professional skills. It uses tools like the Big Five personality trait test and leadership skill assessments to evaluate personality, values, motivation, emotional intelligence, and leadership qualities. The report also examines the influence of power and politics within organizations and their impact on self-awareness. Key findings include an analysis of personal personality traits, values, and motivators, alongside an exploration of emotional intelligence and leadership styles. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of self-awareness in decision-making and career planning, providing a framework for personal and professional growth. This detailed analysis helps in identifying personal strengths and weaknesses, crucial for navigating organizational behavior and making informed career choices.

EVENTS AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
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Executive summary
In this report, the main purpose was to develop self-awareness for the process of career
development in obtaining the suitable employment position. This process was also associated
with developing the professional career. Therefore this report focused on the internship position
in the event and business management organisation where the problem solving and decision-
making abilities can be easily developed for the future career. For this big five personality trait
test, leaders traits skill test is conducted. The specified area of self-awareness was the
development of personality, value motivation emotional intelligence and leadership. Finally, the
effect of power and politics in the organisation was also verified in this report to understand its
impact on self-awareness process. This report also helped me in identifying my traits for my
future job role.
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2.0 Self-awareness...........................................................................................................................4
2.1 Personality.............................................................................................................................4
2.2 Values and Motivators...........................................................................................................6
2.3 Emotional intelligence...........................................................................................................9
2.4 Leadership............................................................................................................................11
2.5 Power and Politics...............................................................................................................12
3.0 Decision making and planning................................................................................................13
4.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16
Appendices....................................................................................................................................19
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1.0 Introduction
Every individual has to develop self-awareness as part of their practical exercise with personal
benefits in the suitable employment position as well as for improving the professional career.
The purpose of this report is to demonstrate the self-awareness elements. These elements include
the personality of the individual values and motivating factors emotional intelligence leadership
and workplace power and politics. In addition to that, how the personal strengths and weaknesses
related to the professional career is part of the study. Similarly, the organisational behaviour and
its relation with self-awareness and decision-making process will be evaluated by focusing on
the events and business management career.
2.0 Self-awareness
2.1 Personality
In the process of self-awareness, personality development is considered as major because the
influential quality of an individual's personality creates an impression on others in the workplace.
In the Event and business management industry, personality creates a huge influence on
managing customers and clients (Allen, 2015). For understanding the personality traits,
evaluation of an individual’s reactions an interaction process with others accounted with the
other personality determinants. The personality determinants include the situation, heredity and
environment which affect the elements of an individual’s personality. Understanding my
personality traits the big personality model is used in the process of professional development.
The big five personality model highlights the five different components of personality. Those
include openness to expression, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and emotional
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stability (Bryson, 2018). Each of these components has different characteristics. For example,
openness to expression can be divided into four different types; those are curious, artistic
imaginative and sensitive. Similarly, the conscientiousness can be responsible organised,
persistent or dependable. The agreeableness is either good nature of cooperative or trusting. For
the extraversion, an individual can be assertive, sociable or gregarious. Finally, the emotional
stability of a person can be the various types which include calm, secure under stress, insecure
under stress, self-confident, nervous and depressed. According to this theory, the major five
personality traits a part of an individual's personality and one characteristic from each of the
section is similar to one individual (Caruso et al. 2014).
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By investigating these five big personality traits, I have able to find out my personality traits. The
career of the event and business management an employee has to be either artistic or imaginative
for opening up his expression. However, I am imaginative according to this use of the big five
personality test. In addition to that, I am a responsible and social able individual who like to
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communicate with others and try to understand their perspective for gathering more knowledge
from others. However, I have Cooperative nature and try to work with a team. Finally, I am self-
confident, and my personal traits also help me in providing confidence to the other team
members at the time of stress.
Personality
traits
openness to
expression
extraversion conscientiousnes
s
agreeableness emotional
stability
Personal
evaluation
imaginative responsible sociable Cooperative self-confident
Table 1: My personality traits
Similarly, the personality attributes which are influencing the organisational behaviour are core
self-evaluation process, self-monitoring, risk-taking, the positive and negative effect. In the
process of Event Management and business management, these personality attributes are
essential because the responsibility of this management area is associated with developed
personality skills
2.2 Values and Motivators
Value is considered as a system which is hierarchy based honour ranking. In the process of
professional development, the individual's value is associated with the terms of their intensity on
the provided classification. In maintaining organisational behaviour in the event and business
management process, the importance of value is highly dependable in the process of self-
awareness (Fayolleet al. 2014). The importance of value includes providing proper knowledge
about the attitudes behaviours and motivation of individual and their culture. It is evident that the
perception of our surrounding world also influences the value system. The representation of
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interpretation and what are the specific behaviour of an individual or outcome which are referred
by other even part of the importance of value. Value is being differentiated into different type
one is terminal, and the other one is instrumental. The Terminal values include the desire of one
person for achieving the goals for existence, and the instrumental value includes the preferable
behaviour of the individual in achieving the terminal values (FioriandVesely-Maillefer, 2018).
The personal influences and organisational influences influence the ethical behaviour of an
individual. In addition to that, the individual influence of my professional development is
dependable on the value system, cognitive moral development and locus of control. The
organisational influence of my article behaviour is dependable on the ethics communication
system, organisational policies and procedures and the code of conduct in the organisation.
In understanding my values for maintaining my organisational behaviour, I have found out that
my terminal values are equality, wisdom, true friendship, an exciting life, family security,
freedom and mature love. Similarly, my instrumental values are ambitious, capable, honest,
responsible and self-controlled (Forsgren, 2015).
Terminal values Instrumental values
 Equality
 wisdom,
 true friendship
 an exciting life
 family security
 freedom
 mature love
 ambitious
 capable
 honest
 responsible
 self-controlled
Table 2: My terminal and instrumental values
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Motivation is considered the vital area of working in the management area and leading others
towards achieving a goal. This personal trait the persistence, intensity and direction attribute of
an individual. The process of motivation is a step-by-step process. Initially, the unsatisfied needs
create tension and drive towards a solution. After getting the solution dissatisfied needs to
develop and total reduction of the tension is possible (Hutteman et al. 2014). After the process of
reduction of tension development of unsatisfied need generally increases and the process works
similarly for the next time.
Figure 1: Motivation process
(Source: Jonkeret al. 2014)
There are various motivation theories which are used by organisations for managing the
employees or as a management employee I can use. The early theories include Maslow's
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hierarchy of needs, two-factor theory etc. Similarly, the contemporary theory includes
McClelland's theory of need, goal setting theory, equity theory, etc. For understanding my
motivation settings, I have focused on the goal-setting theory (Jonkeret al. 2014). The basic
premises of this theory are to understand the specific goals, generation of self-feedback and
finally leading the performance to a higher level. The process of personal motivation also helps
an individual to motivate others. The influences of this theory help an individual to understand
the goal commitment National culture, task characteristics and the specific needs of the goal.
The smart goal setting factor includes the basic requirement of achieving a goal. Those are
specific about the goal, the goal has to be measurable, and the goal has to be attainable. The
smart goal setting also includes the relevant work and time bound for the individual. Career
satisfaction is an important area because achieving the goal is part of the organisational
behaviour (Kim et al. 2015).
Therefore, for the self-awareness process, I have selected the theory of smart goal setting for
achieving my personal goals, and the motivators help me in achieving these goals for the
organisational interest and career development.
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