WMBA6990 - Reflection on Sustainable Business Practices & Strategies

This essay presents a reflection on the aims and objectives for enhancing a career through insights gained during an MBA course, particularly focusing on sustainable business practices and strategies. The author, currently an Office Manager and Staff Expert, aims to integrate this knowledge to develop professional goals, including pursuing a PhD to teach in universities and migrating to Canada. The reflection details the personal and professional values associated with these goals, emphasizing the importance of sharing knowledge and experiences to foster positive social change and improve human resource practices. The author discusses how achieving these goals aligns with the resources learned in the MBA course, including understanding the relationship between management and employees, and the potential to create new theories and plans for better human resource management. The essay concludes by outlining the steps needed to achieve these goals, such as applying to universities and obtaining a visa, and reiterating the effectiveness of these objectives in justifying the overall career aspirations.

Running head: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES
Sustainable Business Practices and Strategies
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
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Reflection
I am constructing this reflection in order to have an understanding of the aims and
objectives that would be helpful for me in enhancing my career. The key motive that I have in
mind is to bring in all the insights and experiences that I have learned during my MBA Course
within the actual life when performing as the Office Manager and the Staff Expert for my
company. The incorporation of these knowledge and experience is helpful in developing my
professional and performance goals. My personal and the professional goal involves getting my
PhD done in order to teach in universities and the personal goal is to leave Kuwait and thereafter
migrate to Canada.
These goals have been chosen because of the fact that in order to have a much better and
developed career it is essential to get a PhD so that I can have extensive knowledge about my
genre and thereafter construct plans and policies that would be helpful in bringing in various
innovative and significant changes, which would be helpful in improving the human resource
practices globally. The second goal is selected as it is my childhood dream to go and settle in
Canada and furthermore, there are various universities that are available in Canada who provides
the PhD course that I desire to complete. There are numerous universities in Canada who are
renowned for offering extensive Human Resource based courses and undertaking a PhD course
from these universities would not only fulfil my desire to study in Canada but even have a degree
that would be beneficial and development of my career in future.
The goals that have been selected are both vital for my future because of the fact that
receiving the PhD degree is essential so that I would be able to teach in universities and convey
my knowledge and experiences that I have gathered from my MBA course. The sharing of
knowledge and the experiences that I have gained from my MBA course to the future aspirants

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would be develop the future students and they would be able to bring in changes in these
experiences according to time in order to create a better and the enhanced human resource
practices and plans. The next objective is even important for my career and future development
because of the fact that I can complete my PhD from one of the best universities and thereafter
start teaching in one of the finest universities in Canada and this would be helpful in fulfilling
my dream of settling in Canada.
The completion of the PhD would enhance my value as an individual because of the fact
that I would be receiving a doctorate degree and would be receiving respect from others. I
always wanted to receive the PhD degree and therefore this would fulfil my personal value. On
the other hand, after the attainment of PhD I would be eligible to teach in several universities and
I even have the option of doing a job, which would be providing me adequate salary and even be
helpful in enhancing my career development. The completion of the PhD will be helpful for me
in creating and constructing new and innovative plans and policies in order to improve the
relationship among the employees within the organization and even assist the management of
any organization to undertake precise and effective decisions for the wellbeing of the concerned
organization.
The goal of migrating to Canada has a personal value associated to it as well as migrating
to Canada is a childhood dream of mine and in accordance to Kuwait there are much bigger
scope and opportunities for me as there are several renowned universities that are available in
Canada. The professional value associated to this goal is that it would be helpful for me in
fulfilling my dream of teaching in universities. Furthermore, I even have the scope of doing a job
if I require later on in life. Canada is a much more developed country than Kuwait and the career
I wish for can be attained only after I migrate to Canada.

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The initial goal that I have constructed to complete my PhD and teaching in universities
would be helpful in sharing my ideas, experiences and knowledge to the young aspirants. The
young students are who are aspiring on the same topic are in need of newer ideas and
experiences in order to enhance their knowledge base and therefore by sharing my knowledge
and the teachings that I have received from my MBA courses would be helpful to the students to
gain an idea about how to maintain cordial relationship among the employees and management
within an organization, assisting the management in undertaking decisions, satisfying the
employees in making them understand why such decisions have been taken and even training the
employees in an effective manner in the practical level. The positive and negative experiences
that I have faced in my professional and practical life will even be conveyed to the students so
that they become aware of these circumstances and do not commit the same mistakes that I have
committed. The advent of time brings in newer and innovative ideas and thereby the students
would be able to blend the newer ideas with the older ones in order to construct a plan or policy
that would be influential in accordance to the future human resource practices. This is how I can
act as an agent of positive social change and thereby would be assisting the community, society
and organization. The incorporation of positive change is important globally in order to create a
better and healthier working environment so that all the employees along with the management
would be satisfied on their level and would be able to bring out their optimum level of
performance that would be helpful in developing the domestic and the global economy.
On the attainment of the goal, I would be able to satisfy my personal value, which is to
fulfil my dream and have a much better career and career development. Career development is
one of my key desires and being able to complete my PhD would help in developing new ideas
and notions on human resource management. Being able to contribute to a better human resource

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management practice would be an honor for me and spreading the knowledge that I have attained
from my MBA course to the aspiring students would be satisfying me internally as I would be
happy that have I have been able to help the society.
The professional value that I would be receiving after attaining the goal would involve
the being able to teach in the university and be able to spread my experiences and knowledge to
the students and answer all their queries and grievances so that they would have a strong grip on
the subject. I want to become an efficient mentor for my students so that they can come down to
me whenever they require. By completing PhD course, I would be able to gain more effective
theoretical and practical knowledge on human resource practices and management and by
blending the knowledge from my MBA course with the knowledge gathered from the PhD
course, I can create a new theory or plan that can bring forth positive changes in human resource
management programs. I have the dream of getting my PhD done and migrating to Canada will
assist me in completing my PhD from a renowned university and developing my career to the
next level, which will not be possible if I remain in Kuwait.
The goals are in relation to the resources I have learned in my course as getting my PhD
done would mean that I would be able to implement the knowledge on understanding the
relationship between the management and the employees in an effective manner and even gain
an understanding of the knowledge and the experiences that can be used for the purpose of
making new and positive decisions with respect to the human resource management and their
practices within an organization and even in the minds of the students. The goal of migrating to
Canada is related to gaining knowledge about a new culture and understand the similarities and
the differences so that I can undertake a comparison of the culture that is existent in Kuwait and
the culture present in Canada. Accordingly, I can create a new plan and policy with the help of

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which better human resource plans and policies can be constructed. In my MBA course, we have
been taught to always strive for gaining new knowledge and ideas so that one can implement the
same and create a better working environment. Hence, completing my PhD and even migrating
to Canada would be helpful for attaining new ideas, knowledge and experiences.
My first goal is to complete my PhD and teach in universities and in order to do the same,
I need to apply in various universities and even maintain my last semester result in a manner so
that I would be able to meet the cut-off marks for applying for PhD courses. In order to migrate
to Canada, I need to apply for visa and even analyze and compare the courses that are offered by
the universities in Canada so that I can select the best university for completing my PhD course.
The objectives are effective enough in justifying the goals because of the fact that in
order to teach in universities, I need to have extensive knowledge about my subject so that I can
teach the students properly. By applying for the PhD course initially, I would be able to join the
course and thereafter complete the course in an effective manner. I need to apply for the visa
after I get selected in a university because if I don’t apply for the visa I will not be eligible for
going to Canada. The attainment of the goals is according to the lessons learned in the MBA
course and thereby would be able to create an effective career for me.

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