Self-Reflection Personal Values in Personnel

Self-Reflection

Personal Values

In personnel administration, I believe several of my personal values will be useful. These include helping others, showing loyalty, being a good listener, calming excited people, and creating a stable, harmonious work environment. All of these combined will provide me with the necessary skills to provide my personnel with as much work satisfaction as possible. My listening skills and loyalty will ensure that I take all personnel matters closely to heart, and that I will care enough to make changes where necessary. Furthermore, calming excited people is helpful in disputes among personnel. My own calm demeanor will serve to help others stay calm in possibly inflammatory situations. In this way then my overall task will be to use my administrative and people skills to create an atmosphere of harmony in order to help personnel work together at the highest level of teamwork and performance.

Philosophies

In my ideal world, things work in a certain consistent way. In an environment of personnel management then, I find it important to perform in a consistent, predictable manner. Since this is something I hold in high regard, I would also expect it to a certain degree from my personnel. Other important philosophies that I hold include demonstrating patience and developing specialized skills. The latter represents my ultimate professional goal, and drives the rest of my values, philosophies and leadership style.

Being of consistent character and working style, maintenance of the status quo is also an important part of my philosophy. In managing personnel, I would therefore implement a set of regulations according to which each employee must perform his or her work. This will ensure predictable routines for both my workers and myself.

Further important aspects of my philosophy regarding work is that credit and sincere appreciation needs to be given for work performed. Reward is for me a more effective incentive to perform than the threat of punishment, since negative feedback often results in negative or minimal performance.

Having said the above, it is also important to me that my personnel would have skills to support possible unpredictable occurrences in the workplace. My leaders would therefore have qualities that are not necessarily part of my own psychological set of strengths.

Leadership Style would use a democratic leadership style, because I like others to voice their opinions honestly and without fear. While I highly prize respect for authorities, I think respect for one's employees is equally important. If there is no mutual respect, work performance on the part of both my workers and myself will inevitably suffer.

Challenges