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TOPIC: Becoming a Global Manager ? Reflection and Personal Management Skills Analysis.
NOTE: You are asked to evaluate your managerial skills and create a plan for developing them in the future, in an essay format.
The focus here is on assessing your skills and competencies for managing and planning to develop them in the future. This requires understanding what management involves (how it is defined and understood in academic writing), what you currently think of your skills and abilities, and how you could develop them in the future.
Instructions In a critical essay you are asked to present your viewpoint and to argue for it. This means giving evidence or justification for your conclusions, and being clear where the evidence or arguments are uncertain or raise further questions. NOTE: You should draw on learning from the text and class activities, discussions with others, and relevant academic references.
How do personality factors affect global management capability? Include the following sections: 1) An Introduction stating the structure of your essay (about 300 words). 2) A brief review of relevant literature to show your understanding of global management capabilities (hard and soft skills); the Big 5 personality factors (broad and then focus more on 1 factor) and then summaries (about 1,000 words citing at least 10 non-textbook references in addition to the textbook). 3) An evaluation of how your personality impacts on your global management capabilities for managing yourself and others (about 450 words), including: a. An analysis of your skills and competences relevant to management and your Big 5 questionnaire results. Think critically about the results. Detailed results can go in an Appendix. 4) Following the DIEP model, reflect on three specific areas learnt in the unit including 1 Big Five factor and 2 others (e.g. impression management). Use the plan section to specify your goals (using the SMART goals framework), skills or competencies you will focus on, how and when you will learn them, and how you will know you have learned them (about 800 words). 5) A Conclusion (about 200 words). 6) A Reference list (not included in word count). 7) Any Appendices (not included in word count). https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/2_assessmenttasks/assess_pdf/Reflective%20journal.pdf
