After all the self tests, I have learned my faults and weaknesses, which I should take on right now and make them into strengths. The chapters we covered in class that I took the self tests on were 21st century manager, organizational culture preference, decision making biases, theory x and y, cultural attitudes inventory, global readiness, diversity awareness, your intuitive ability, entrepreneurship orientation and whos in control. In general I found that when it related to culture and globalization, I did rather well, but on those topics which demanded making money from others, I did not have the heart to take it.
First off as a 21st century manager, I scored a 7.5 out of a perfect 10. while answering the questions given to me, I knew that I had a certain skill towards each question but to give myself a full score did not seem as though it were right because I still am growing as an individual and I should realize that there are flaws that everyone has, even myself, that I must work on to become a good manager. Sometimes a good manager must be able to take criticism in the right manner and build from that, and by not stating that I am a perfect 10 at the age of nineteen is a good thing because I should still continue to grow as a human being until death. I have not yet had enough experience in my life, compared to some big time businessmen and my relative comfort ability of each question should not be seen as a stopping point, because there is no level of perfection in many areas, there is always room to be better.
As an organizational culture preference I was most like a baseball team. From this I would thrive off of competition, and take risks in order for bigger gains. I am currently satisfied with this categorization because it seems as though I would be the most successful from this type of action. Ive heard many a times that in order to make great profits, one must take even greater risks. Also from a culture that values talent, entrepreneurial activity and performance rather than commitment, is how I have set values for self benefit and the world working today. Im not quite sure from this set of self assessments if there is a better or worse category, but rather which way just works for you and how much credit for work or security one will have.
The decision making biases were actually talking about most people other than me. I think I had previous experience with questions of this sort and therefore took the analysis side of the questions and picked the right answer in most all of the cases. The only poor doing on my part was the anchoring and adjustment heuristic when I estimated the engineers salary solely based on the chemists guess as opposed to just my own guess without influence from the chemists thought. Other than that I did not fall for representative ness or availability heuristic. As long as I am able to take the most logical answer as opposed to the most immediate answer, I should be fine along the lines of decision making through presentation of facts.
My theory x and y scores were relatively close, 7 to 5 respectively, and there is no real better way to manage or view people. It all depends on the situation. As told through the textbook you must assess the environment and then act on the employees whichever is best suited for those that have been hired. So I guess I can change one point to Y in order to make it even, but it still depends on where I work and who I will be put to work with to see which way to manage them.
The most surprising results came from the cultural attitudes inventory self response because my scores matched those most closely linked to the Mexicans. I did not think I was necessarily like a lower waged worker I guess as the data is presented towards me. I may tend to think that guys are in higher positions than women but I can see if I were put into the situation of me being under a woman that it would work out. In contrast to my answers in other tests this says I am neutral on individualism as opposed to more individual than collective. So I am unsure how to take that information because I do think I prefer to rely on myself over other people in a group thinking that I am the best and would be able to do the job the best even if it were by me. My power distance level was right in between both the US and Mexico standards so I guess I was neutral on that. But my uncertainty avoidance shows I am very scared of uncertainty even though I may feel as though that I would be able to handle problems if slowly attacked and analyzed. However at first I think I would be hesitant and often seek guidance to first solve problems that I am unaware of.
My global mindset is really high and I have my parents to thank for that by exposing me to my various cultural backgrounds. The only improvement would be to speak other dialects other than English in order to communicate easier but, I still have a good sense of being able to conduct business with others. I have been fortunate enough to experience a business sense in other countries and been exposed to other cultures outside of Newport Beach and the US that extends to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong and even laid back Hawaii. With this knowledge I know how to conduct or work at other peoples paces depending on where they are from which is very necessary in becoming successful in the global level. My diversity awareness relates back to my global mindset where I have been able to experience I bit of other countries and am now able to do well in a global society accepting all types of peoples all over the world.
My intuitiveness is very low, on a scale of 12 I scored a 5. One of my problems is that unless I am completely sure I feel as though I may be doing the wrong thing until confirmed that it is correct. I will need to learn how to take on tasks my own and trust myself with my decisions because I do have the answers somewhere, I just dont like to fail and waste time which would be a reason of not wanting to go on and doing the wrong thing which causes my intuitive score low. As long as I grow a greater confidence with my work ethic and thoughts, I will improve my intuitive decisions, but for now I still like guidance and will eventually be fine in what I have to think first.
The entrepreneur orientation told me I am a 76 out of a perfect 100 on becoming an entrepreneur. I dont know if I can necessarily agree with the turn out of this survey because some of the points awarded towards the overall score will not help someone become a better entrepreneur but are more chance or what you are born into rather than skills and ability. First question is what portion of your college tuition you earned. If someone is poor, of course they will have had to pay off more of their tuition. But if ones parents are rich, they would not need to work during college to pay tuition, or parents prevent them from working for tuition because of an extracurricular activity such as a NCAA sport that would be more beneficial than flipping burgers at a fast food restaurant. Also I am still a freshman and eventually may be paying for tuition, but this still does not require skill towards becoming an entrepreneur but more just how someone is or is not.
My locus control is a 6 out of max of 10, which means I am more on the mixed end of how I handle by destiny and how much hard work I put in will affect me. This would simply be how things end up working out as if something were predetermined or just another way to be in control of myself or not in control of myself. Being a 6 sets a good balance between the two extremes and will allow me to work at the level that I should and regardless of whether or not its supposed to happen or not, I will just keep moving forward.
Through all of the self quizzes I have learned that I have many flaws and some positives that I should act on in order to become a good manager, entrepreneur, or businessman later on in life. I am still young and therefore do have time to shape my outlook on various topics and build confidence in myself to do well later on. I know that I should take these results and just use them in all ways to better myself later on, not taking any to heart and making sure I do take action to make myself a better rounded person in all ways.
