Reflective Commentary: Theory, Practice, Skills, and Career Goals

This reflective commentary delves into the author's work-related experiences, connecting theoretical concepts with practical applications within an organizational context. It reflects on ethical considerations, motivational theories, and the importance of aligning personal values with workplace practices. The commentary articulates the implications of these experiences concerning Bucks Graduate Attributes, highlighting skills in financial contracts, stock management, and safety compliance. It evaluates the author's strengths and weaknesses, particularly in decision-making and learning speed, and proposes an action plan for future career development. The author aims to enhance their ethical understanding, improve emotional intelligence, and cultivate firm decision-making skills to achieve professional goals, emphasizing the importance of continuous self-improvement and strategic career planning.

REFLECTIVE
COMMENTARY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflection over the relationship between theories and practices in an organization..................1
Articulation and evaluation of the implications of experiences and skills with respect to the
Bucks Graduate Attributes..........................................................................................................2
Application of work related experiences and learning goals for future career plans..................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reflective commentary is a kind of reflective documents which has been created in order
to illustrate personal experiences related to any specific situation in complete ad successful
manner (Robinson, 2018). This report will elaborate the aspects of relationship between theories
and practices of work related contexts, implications in relation to Bucks Graduate Attributes,
future planning along with preparation of CV.
MAIN BODY
Reflection over the relationship between theories and practices in an organization
 Description: As per the experiences that has been faced by me within the company
illustrates that according to the deontological ethical theory, it has been stated that the
people should be treated with respect and dignity after identification of their duty and
actions accordingly. I have experienced that rules are rules that plays a major role at the
workplaces specifically. One of the incident that had been occurred in front of my eyes
are that the marketing manager within my organization influence their team members to
do extra tasks by doing wrong and false promises to them in order to get the tasks
completed. In my opinion it was the wrong practice and breaches the ethical ways of
doing work. Although the outcomes were highly appreciable for the department but
somehow it drastically affects the individual perception of doing work among the
company. On more experience that I want to share is related to esteem needs of an
individual as according to the Maslow Hierarchy theory, it has been evaluated that the
people feel highly motivated if their employer provides attention towards fulfilment of
their these needs by providing them worth and respect (Bar-Itzhak, 2020). This had been
personally experienced by me when I got appreciation in front of my team members for
my great level of performances among the given projects and assignments at workplace.
 Feelings: In order to get the experiences from above mentioned activities, I feel that
there are various things that have been prepared are highly beneficial to fulfil the
practical requirements of an individual. After analysing the situation that has been
occurred with the marketing team members, I felt that it is highly unethical way to do
their tasks and assignments by making wrong promises and commitments. It manages the
situation for smaller duration of time but impacts drastically in long run concept.
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Moreover, with second experiences, it has been identified that making employees feel
important and valuable for the company plays a major and significant role in order to
make them feel motivated and satisfied.
 Evaluation: From both the situations, I have evaluated that the relationship and
connection among the theories and practices are extremely important as it demonstrated
one's abilities with the help of using evidences to enhance the understanding of key
concepts that the researcher wants to explain. These also assist in justifying the decision-
making procedure along with prepare future practices in successful manner. Moreover,
they also provide detailed analysis over the corporate designing, prepare structures and
handle behaviour of individuals among the establishment in individual or collaborative
manner.
 Conclusion: From the above mentioned analysis, the information that has been gathered
that there are various management, motivational, ethical, etc. theories that has been used
at the workplace according to which the employees are highly able to manage their work
in structured manner along with having high motivational and productivity manner
(Noels, Lascano and Saumure, 2019). Moreover, such theories' ad practices also enables
an individual to enhance their skills and abilities that requires further improvements
along with identification of certain weaknesses that still requires action plan in order to
prepare and enhance the overall abilities of working into an establishment.
 Action: In order to enhance the skills and abilities that has been identified after analysing
all the relevant and appropriate theories and practices, I will prepare an action plan that
will appropriately assist me to generate or increase my level of understanding about the
things that are highly beneficial for me to increase my future career perspectives.
Moreover, there are various things that I have learnt from experiences that I have share
above also enables me to act accordingly and by identifying my weaknesses work
accordingly over them for better future career planning as well as personal
developments.
Articulation and evaluation of the implications of experiences and skills with respect to the
Bucks Graduate Attributes
The Bucks graduate attributes is a tool that is used by several people in order to
determine the progress of their skills. There are majorly four aspects of Buck’s Graduate
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Attributes which includes leadership and self-development, social and ethical awareness and
responsibility, knowledge and its application and lastly, Creativity. On the basis of the above
categorization, an individual or an employee determines and compares his own progress in terms
of different types of skill development.
As per my experience, I Have determined I have certain skills which can be of great help
wherever I go and whatever career option I opt in future. moreover, the existing skills can be
useful for various purposes (Jeske, and Linehan, 2020). Currently, I have a skill set which
includes issuing financial contracts, issuing of internal circulations, maintaining of stock records
and stock closing per month. I developed these skills while I was working as an Executive
Operator within Ameropa Grains SA, RO. I have also worked as a personal shopper in Ocado,
United Kingdom where my responsibility was to take orders from the system, scan the goods
and then transfer the same into the right place, to comply with all the regulations with respect to
the safety while moving within or outside the warehouse and ensure that the floor, shelves,
machinery and other things within the organization has been cleaned properly. My current skills
can help me in the field of operations and management within an organization. This is so
because my current skill set involves certain roles and responsibilities which relates to the field
of operations and management within an enterprise. I can enhance my existing skills in order to
gain a position holding a high authority within the enterprise and help me in moving ahead in
my career. The responsibility of complying to the safety regulations will be helpful to me within
an enterprise in ensuring the compliance of other legal and management related frameworks
within the enterprise. The ability to issue financial contracts and maintaining the stock records
can alos be helpful to me if I opt for a career within the field of quality management and
compliance of legal and regulatory policies and rules within the organization.
The ability to issue internal calculations can be useful for me in the field of accounting
and finance within an organization (Sotiriadou, and et.al). As both of these departments involves
the use of making calculation quickly for the purpose of determining the cost of goods sold, the
operating expenses of the company, the profitability of the company, increase in the cost or the
profit of an organization and make budgetary statements for the organization.
However, I have determined that I am not that great in my existing skills which could be
a problem if I switch my career from being in a position of working within a warehouse to
acquiring a better position in a reputed organization. Therefore, there is a need for me improve
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my current skills in order to acquire a better position. I should opt for training and tutorials
which helps me in enhancing my knowledge of finance and help me in achieving a better
position in a reputed organization. Preparation of financial budgets on my own will also help me
in developing an understanding towards the how budgets are being prepared within an
organization and learning the things which needs to be considered while developing a budget for
an organization. Therefore, the improvement within my existing skills will help me acquiring a
better position in my future within a reputed organization.
Application of work related experiences and learning goals for future career plans
From the experiences that I had grabbed within my establishment, I have realized that
there are certain things that I have to improve within myself which includes knowledge
regarding the enhancement of information regarding the ethical practices and theories that are
highly suitable and significant in order to work appropriately within the workplace so that my
team members will never have to face any difficulty just like the marketing department team
members faced. In order to enhance my such kind of understanding, I will get information from
various books and journals that are written specifically in order to increase the knowledge level
regarding this particular topic that helps me to become a great leaders and lead my team
members in most ethical manner.
Moreover, I also have to require improve my personal intelligence and become a person
who does not take decisions on the basis of emotional things. This is among one of my greatest
weaknesses and requires urgent improvements in highly considerable manner. In order to
improve so, I will take actions or adopt activities that will restrict my decision-making power
over emotional basis and trough which I can able to create solutions or decisions over the basis
of analysing actual conditions of the activity. Such kind of improvements will definitely helps
me to increase my skills in order to get personal as well as professional goals in fruitful manner.
My above mentioned work related experiences will definitely assist me act in responsible
manner towards my team members and for the motivation enhancement, the similar things will
definitely adopts by me in order to enhance the motivational level of my colleagues as well as
team members in most successful ways.
I have determined that I need to develop firm decision making within myself in order to gain a
valuable position within a reputed organization in the future. I have identified that I am unable to
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make decisions firmly and quickly within my organization which affects my reputation within
the enterprise. Therefore, there is a need for me to develop firm decision making skills within
myself. This can be developed within myself I observe things and try to understand their value
within an organization (Cabral, and Dhar, 2019). The enhancement of knowledge will also help
in making quick decisions within the company and hold an influential position within an
organization. I have observed that if an individual has the ability to make effective and fast
decisions and is capable of bringing change within an enterprise, the organization offer them a
valuable position with influential power within the company. Therefore, the development of
decision making skills is essential in order to achieve my future career plan.
Also, I have analyzed that I am a slow learner and take time in carrying out things
effective which leads to mismanagement of time. Therefore, it is essential for me to improve my
way learning and also learn the technique of time management in order to save time. In order to
learn things faster, I should keep on repeating the same things, try to remember the concepts or
important information by joining or linking them with something fun and joyous which makes
things easy to learn and remember. When I will be able grab things faster it will get easier for to
inculcate the time management skills within myself. However, in order to develop the time
management skills within myself, I will need to plan things in advance, prepare a time
management schedules assigns a specific time with each of the tasks that needs to be carried out.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that there are certain skills within myself
which can help me in opting for a range of career options in the future. However, it has been
determined that the existing skills needs to be enhanced in order to make it useful in acquiring a
high position within a reputed organization in the future. Therefore, the present report includes
certain skills and how they can be developed in order to achieve the future career plans.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bar-Itzhak, C., 2020. Intellectual captivity: literary theory, world literature, and the ethics of
interpretation. Journal of World Literature, 5(1), pp.79-110.
Noels, K.A., Lascano, D.I.V. and Saumure, K., 2019. The development of self-determination
across the language course: Trajectories of motivational change and the dynamic
interplay of psychological needs, orientations, and engagement. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, 41(4), pp.821-851.
Robinson, F., 2018. Globalizing care: Ethics, feminist theory, and international relations.
Cabral, C. and Dhar, R.L., 2019. Skill development research in India: a systematic literature
review and future research agenda. Benchmarking: An International Journal.
Jeske, D. and Linehan, C., 2020. Mentoring and skill development in e-internships. Journal of
Work-Applied Management.
Sotiriadou, P.,and et.al . The role of authentic assessment to preserve academic integrity and
promote skill development and employability. Studies in Higher Education, 45(11),
pp.2132-2148.
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APPENDIX
Oana Gavrila
6 Ladyfields Way, Swadlincote, DE11 0RH
Professional Summary
I am a professional and hard worker whit an experience of 4 years in the warehouse
environment. I have a very good feedback from my bosses because I hit every time the
target. I am open to put in overtime hours when I am asked.
Work Experience
Execution operator
Ameropa Grains SA, RO
June 2012 - January 2018
 Issuing financing contracts.
 Issuing internal calculations.
 Stock records.
 Stock closing per month.
Personal Shopper
Ocado, UK
January 2018 - present
 Taking orders through system, scan the products and put them in the correct bag
 Followed all safety regulations when moving through the warehouse by staying
within marked pedestrian areas
 Ensured that warehouse aisle, shelves, floors and machinery were kept clean.
Hobbies and Interests
 Traveling.
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 Music (listening and dancing).
 Reading books.
Routledge.
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