Question

In 300 words for each topic what is the best reflection statements for the following: Understand your Motivation, Diversity at Work, manage your career, Behavioral Organization, TQM and Personal Profiling and Group processes

Answer 1

Understanding your motivation as a student:

Motivation can be described as the reason behind a behaviour that leads to certain actions produced. Motivation are of two types; internal motivation and external motivation. Some people are internally motivated, while others need an external reason to perform a particular task. Motivation plays a very important role in education. If only an individual is motivated to excel in his academics, will he perform exceptionally well in his exams. If an individual is not motivated enough to do well in his tests, he will get complacent and is most likely to score low.

A person needs to be motivated internally or may need an external motivation to perform better. Three ways that students can help themselves be more motivated are as follows:

1. Set goals for oneself: Instead of the teacher or instructor setting goals for them, they should be motivated from within to fair well in an examination. They should set a goal for reading a certain number of pages in a day before they close their books. If they set a goal for themselves, they are more likely to achieve it and most importantly be satisfied. Satisfaction of achieving their goal will make them often indulge in behaviour which leads to personal satisfaction.

2. Rewarding oneself: A student could help himself be more motivated if he chooses to reward himself after attaining a goal, like finishing his homework for the day instead of procrastinating for later in the week. He could treat himself with chocolates after completion of his work or take extra play time.

3. Self-efficacy: it can be defined as one's ability to achieve a goal. The confidence within oneself to accomplish a certain goal. Only when you believe in yourself that you can do it, is when you can actually do it. A student should often try attaining goals that they have set for himself, as achieving goals is positivitely associated with developing high self-efficacy which will keep them motivated to study well for their tests.