Organizational Behavior: Personal Insights on Workplace Engagement

This assignment is a reflective paper on organizational behavior, exploring the student's personal experiences and learning within a workplace setting. The paper addresses key questions concerning passion and engagement, the alignment of personal values with work strategies, and the impact of beliefs and challenges on performance. The student reflects on how calmness and perseverance have contributed to their work engagement and success. The paper also examines the role of motivation, appreciation, and new sources of information in shaping the student's professional development. Furthermore, the student discusses their knowledge as a learner, highlighting the importance of training from experienced managers and the continuous improvement of work engagement skills. The student acknowledges the importance of passion, calmness, and the ability to overcome challenges in achieving professional goals. The paper draws upon several academic references to support the analysis.

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behaviour
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note:

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Q. 1. What is something new that has been learnt in terms of being passionate and fully
engaged?
Answer to Question No 1.
In the modern times, almost no one is seriously passionate about his or her works and
engagements (Ahmed, Hameed & Mahmood, 2016). Different reports in relation to the level
of passion and engagement have shown the absence of any passion and bonding towards their
professional work among more than 85% of the people (Shuck, Zigarmi, & Owen, 2015). My
own experience while working in the workplace has helped me to learn a number of
experience. I think that staying calm and quiet in the workplace can help concentrate on the
work. I have learned that staying calm and quite can be helpful for being passionate and
engaged towards work.
Q. 2. How does this relate to the values?
Answer to Question No 2.
My own values are quite similar to the new strategies of staying calm and quiet. I
prefer to stay quite while working as this can help me to avoid doing mistakes. At the
beginning, I was reluctant about my work. However, my concentration towards the work
helped me to attain the required goals and gain passion for the work.
Q. 3. How have been your beliefs and challenges been challenged/confirmed?
Answer to Question No 3.
At the beginning, I felt a bit confused as because there were a number of problems
that affected my performance. There was a time when I felt that I would be unable to
concentrate on the work. However, after observing my seniors and the supervisors my belief
about calmness and Preservance helped me to restore my faith. The restoration of the faith

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helped me to overcome the odds and meet the different areas of success in the most efficient
manner.
Q. 4. Where is the life experience in this process?
Answer to Question No 4.
I personally think that without being passionate about something, it will be difficult to
address any issues and concentrate on the work. We should personally think about the time
when we are highly engaged and concentrate on the work in a structured manner. I think at
the time of being passionate and engaged I feel a connection of the soul and a fun, warm and
energized self. The presence of the physical energy while doing such works can help me to
address any issues that comes forward.
Q. 5. Where is your appreciation of others?
Answer to Question No 5.
The presence of motivation and appreciation from the side of the company is highly
important for the professional success. A motivated employee can be helpful for the
professional development of the organization. I believe that my own passion towards work
and its engagement can help to develop myself as a perfect individual. My passion has been
developed because of the passionate employees and supervisors in the workplace.
Q. 6. Where new sources of information are you involved in?
Answer to Question No 6.
The new sources of information that I have come to know about includes;
a. It is not a hobby and dream
b. It is important to use the available resources to stay happy and concentrated

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c. Face any challenges that come by my way
d. The effects of being passionate might not be always visible
Q. 7. What is your knowledge as a learner and how can you improve your
performance?
Answer to Question No 7.
As a learner, I have been quite lucky to receive the training from a bunch of extremely
talented and professionally expert managers. The managers who trained me were a group of
highly experienced people who had an experience of more than 15 years in the corporate
industry. They played an important role to help me gain the understanding that calmness is an
important resource as calmness helps to stay passionate and engaged to work. I believe that I
can improve my performance by learning more skills of work engagement from my managers
and observing their own passion closely.

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References and Bibliography
Ahmed, A., Hameed, I., & Mahmood, S. (2016). Linking passion to organizational
citizenship behavior and employee performance: The mediating role of work
engagement. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 10(2), 316-334.
Birkeland, I. K., & Buch, R. (2015). The dualistic model of passion for work: Discriminate
and predictive validity with work engagement and workaholism. Motivation and
Emotion, 39(3), 392-408.
Imperatori, B. (2017). Engagement and disengagement at work: Drivers and organizational
practices to sustain employee passion and performance. Springer.
Shuck, B., Zigarmi, D., & Owen, J. (2015). Psychological needs, engagement, and work
intentions: A Bayesian multi-measurement mediation approach and implications for
HRD. European Journal of Training and Development, 39(1), 2-21.