The Importance Of An Action Plan.

COURSEWORK ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTION PLAN

ESSAY No .1 . MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT

This is a report on my personal leadership behavior assessed according to the Michigan Organizational Assessment structure . This assessment aims to determine whether the behaviors I displayed and personally exercised during the course of my leadership are behaviors that will shape me into an efficient leader . Using the four dimensions of leadership behaviors , this assessment aimed at identifying the specific areas to where I will be most effective and efficient as a leader . With this therefore , this assessment

would like to have a general view of my personal leadership style when I will be given the chance to lead a team and the strengths and weaknesses I personally have towards leadership behaviors

According to the Michigan Organizational Assessment chart , my score averaged at 6 .67 in the area of personal support , 6 .00 in goal emphasis and 7 .00 in work facilitation . My score n personal support suggests that I have a high likelihood of enhancing someone 's feelings of personal worth and importance through my leadership behaviors . My score on goal emphasis suggests that I will most likely employ behaviors that will help the team members to achieve our goals by encouraging or influencing them to work harder and aimed at excellent work performance for the benefit of the whole team . My score on work facilitation suggest that I will most likely be efficient in are the areas of scheduling coordinating and planning

Task and social interdependence are required even in the modern organizational set up in for the organization to effectively achieve their goals (Bowers , David G . and Stanley Seashore . Stanley and Seashore also stressed that the need for social interdependence in a team is justified by the presence of people working in the organization who , aside from material and other needs , have important need for social interaction and thus social growth (Bowers and Stanley ,

.169 . With this therefore , my score on the dimensions according to Michigan Organizational Assessment suggest that I need to concentrate on the areas where my leadership behavioral strengths will be most useful

ACTION PLAN

Specific Area to Improve

My scores reveal that my leadership behaviors just need to be maintained . However these behavioral strengths cannot be reliable in areas where these behaviors seem not the sole indicators of leadership effectiveness

Problems to Overcome

There seems to be no problem in this area but the assessment scores are but useful in certain work areas like scheduling and planning . The problem will be on how these behaviors be useful in other areas like when implementing policy changes (shortened work hours due to organizational financial difficulty ) where positive influence to work performance may not work well using the above behaviors .Detailed Specific Actions Changes To Look For

I need to look into learning proper behavioral approach that maybe needed to positively influence work behavior during organizational difficulties I aimed at maintaining the same behavioral patterns while making improvements on other areas...