HEY~!!
haha...
i'm still alive and kicking!
lol...
sorry for not updating for soooooooooooo....... long...
wonder if anyone still reads this...
Anyway,
been really really busy TRYING HARD to juggle studies and DANCE~(WEE~)
concert's in less then 2 weeks!(wonder how's ticket sales...heard it's not really that good>.<)
on 15th march at national lib drama centre.
been dancing almost everyday...and last week, everyday.(literally)
just came back from diving trip over the weekend...quite a sad trip cos my dive buddy, instructor MAO pang-seh me...T_T
anyway...
that almost sums up what i've been doing lately? kinda no life?
NO. DANCE is LIFE. lol.
Hope everyone's doing fine~!
Han quan, Ye An and kayying, NO!
I REMEMBER ALL OF YOU.
XINMIN Leadership camp!
haha...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Management with Humour Lect 5
"NEEDs"-Motivation to work.
One need to be motivated and willing in order to do a job well.
One of the most important role of a leader is to motivate his team to perform to their best potential. To motivate means to make the team willing to put in high amounts of effort and work towards a common goal.
People are motivated by “Need”. The need to get better that what you already are. The need to live better than you are living. Need to affiliate with others. Need of sense of achievement....etc. If a leader is able to make the team see the need, and make them want it badly, the team will be motivated to work. However if the team is satisfied with what they have, there will be no motivation to get better.
Needs, according to Maslow's can be classified into higher(“spiritual”:social, esteem, self-actualization) and lower(physiological (hunger...etc..), safety) needs.
When the lower needs are not satisfied, one usually will not consider the higher needs. When you cannot even have full meals a day, you wouldn't think about things like getting famous.
The lower needs are usually the more powerful motivators. Eg. When you are dying of hunger, you can even forgo safety and try to get food that's dropped on the road. But would you give your life for something like fame? I believe for most people, the answer is, “no”.
The need to affiliate is another powerful driving force. Humans, as emotional beings have desires for interpersonal relationships. Very often, people are willing to stay working at a place because they have friends there, they like the culture there. To these people, the good relationship with colleagues is the motivation to stay on and work hard.
Eg. When I was working as a camp facilitator under a certain company, even though all of us working together under the company knows that we can easily find other companies that pay much better, we still stayed on because we enjoy working with each other.
One need to be motivated and willing in order to do a job well.
One of the most important role of a leader is to motivate his team to perform to their best potential. To motivate means to make the team willing to put in high amounts of effort and work towards a common goal.
People are motivated by “Need”. The need to get better that what you already are. The need to live better than you are living. Need to affiliate with others. Need of sense of achievement....etc. If a leader is able to make the team see the need, and make them want it badly, the team will be motivated to work. However if the team is satisfied with what they have, there will be no motivation to get better.
Needs, according to Maslow's can be classified into higher(“spiritual”:social, esteem, self-actualization) and lower(physiological (hunger...etc..), safety) needs.
When the lower needs are not satisfied, one usually will not consider the higher needs. When you cannot even have full meals a day, you wouldn't think about things like getting famous.
The lower needs are usually the more powerful motivators. Eg. When you are dying of hunger, you can even forgo safety and try to get food that's dropped on the road. But would you give your life for something like fame? I believe for most people, the answer is, “no”.
The need to affiliate is another powerful driving force. Humans, as emotional beings have desires for interpersonal relationships. Very often, people are willing to stay working at a place because they have friends there, they like the culture there. To these people, the good relationship with colleagues is the motivation to stay on and work hard.
Eg. When I was working as a camp facilitator under a certain company, even though all of us working together under the company knows that we can easily find other companies that pay much better, we still stayed on because we enjoy working with each other.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Management with Humour Lect 4
Here's a little something for you guys to read if you too border and have nth better to do...
something I wrote about managing people for my management module.
We can discuss this if anyone's interested. haha...
Understanding behaviour is very important in human management. To make majority of the people feel happy under your management, you have to be able to understand how and why they behave the way they do.
Humans can behave very differently when they are alone compared to when they are with a group. People can also behave very differently when they are with different groups.
People often conform to a certain way of behaving with they are with different groups at different places to avoid conflicts and also not to look “out-of-place”.
Very often, the behaviour of a person is linked to his attitude towards something.
Everyone has a way of looking at themselves and others, the cognitive component; how they feel about something, the affective component; how they intend to behave, the behavioral component.
What's interesting is, even though everyone of us have a certain way of looking things, how we look at ourselves, what we perceive to be the right thing to do. But very often under different circumstances, we often do not do what we think is right or what we originally intended to do. This, is cognitive dissonance.
We always gave ourselves excuses and reasons to do things different from what we believe in and sometimes even what we know is wrong. This is exactly because we want to look “normal” with the group. This is like peer pressure.
It can be good and bad.
If the influence is good for example, a lazy employee placed in a very hardworking work environment will be “forced” to work hard.
On the contrary, if a hardworking employee placed in a very lazy and laid back working environment can “turn-lazy” so as to fit in.
something I wrote about managing people for my management module.
We can discuss this if anyone's interested. haha...
Understanding behaviour is very important in human management. To make majority of the people feel happy under your management, you have to be able to understand how and why they behave the way they do.
Humans can behave very differently when they are alone compared to when they are with a group. People can also behave very differently when they are with different groups.
People often conform to a certain way of behaving with they are with different groups at different places to avoid conflicts and also not to look “out-of-place”.
Very often, the behaviour of a person is linked to his attitude towards something.
Everyone has a way of looking at themselves and others, the cognitive component; how they feel about something, the affective component; how they intend to behave, the behavioral component.
What's interesting is, even though everyone of us have a certain way of looking things, how we look at ourselves, what we perceive to be the right thing to do. But very often under different circumstances, we often do not do what we think is right or what we originally intended to do. This, is cognitive dissonance.
We always gave ourselves excuses and reasons to do things different from what we believe in and sometimes even what we know is wrong. This is exactly because we want to look “normal” with the group. This is like peer pressure.
It can be good and bad.
If the influence is good for example, a lazy employee placed in a very hardworking work environment will be “forced” to work hard.
On the contrary, if a hardworking employee placed in a very lazy and laid back working environment can “turn-lazy” so as to fit in.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Last paper tml~!!!!
YEAH~!!!
IT's FINALLY OVER~!!!
tml's my last paper...
then it's gonna be dance dance dance and prob a bit of piano and guitar~!
b4 my lousy result kill my joy!
haha...
hope everyone's doing great!
Exams probably over for everyone le rite?
Hope u guys did well!
YEAH~
IT's FINALLY OVER~!!!
tml's my last paper...
then it's gonna be dance dance dance and prob a bit of piano and guitar~!
b4 my lousy result kill my joy!
haha...
hope everyone's doing great!
Exams probably over for everyone le rite?
Hope u guys did well!
YEAH~
Monday, November 3, 2008
I'm still alive/Management with humour Lect 3
Hi ppl...
sorry for being dead for so long with the lag of updates...
been dancing alot and busy with essays projects and stuff....
exams round the corner!!! in 9 days!!
and after that it'll be dance everyday cause competitions coming up and a performance too~
haha...
hope everyone's going great!
those in sec 2 hope yall did well for ur streaming!
sec 3, hope yall did well too so you can play hard this hols. Next year's TEH year for yall!
well...
here's a little something for you guys to read...
Leadership styles and having the right person for the job
An organization can have many different structures and with these different structures come different ways of management.
The different structures also makes the job scope and work load of the the employees different. From highly specialized, in which employees of a specific department do only one kind of work to one which is diversified. In which one employee can have many different jobs.
From highly centralized, where there's little autonomy and decisions are mostly made by higher management while employees have little say; to highly decentralized, where employee at given much more autonomy and more say and chance to make decisions.
Highly specialized can improve productivity by eliminating redundant “actions” as everyone know has to worry about doing their small part right.
Highly centralized management will make decision make very fast and efficient.
Highly diversified job scope ensure employees do not get bored of their job.
Highly decentralized management give employees more autonomy and a bigger part to play thus possibly giving them higher job satisfaction.
However, it is not the type structure that determines the success of the organization. Rather, it is whether the structure employed fits the people with in the organization. Whether the management can work with the particular kind of structure and whether the employees are comfortable and able to derive satisfaction from working this way.
This is where Human Resource Planning comes in.
Not only must one know when and where to bring in talents, where to put them.
Job profiling can be done to find the best person to fit the job or vise-versa.
This is important as if the wrong person is given the wrong job, he will not be satisfied and this will decrease productivity. He may not be able to do the job well either.
E.g. If someone who does not like decision making is given a job under a highly decentralized management structure, he will be satisfied as he's forced to make decisions.
sorry for being dead for so long with the lag of updates...
been dancing alot and busy with essays projects and stuff....
exams round the corner!!! in 9 days!!
and after that it'll be dance everyday cause competitions coming up and a performance too~
haha...
hope everyone's going great!
those in sec 2 hope yall did well for ur streaming!
sec 3, hope yall did well too so you can play hard this hols. Next year's TEH year for yall!
well...
here's a little something for you guys to read...
Leadership styles and having the right person for the job
An organization can have many different structures and with these different structures come different ways of management.
The different structures also makes the job scope and work load of the the employees different. From highly specialized, in which employees of a specific department do only one kind of work to one which is diversified. In which one employee can have many different jobs.
From highly centralized, where there's little autonomy and decisions are mostly made by higher management while employees have little say; to highly decentralized, where employee at given much more autonomy and more say and chance to make decisions.
Highly specialized can improve productivity by eliminating redundant “actions” as everyone know has to worry about doing their small part right.
Highly centralized management will make decision make very fast and efficient.
Highly diversified job scope ensure employees do not get bored of their job.
Highly decentralized management give employees more autonomy and a bigger part to play thus possibly giving them higher job satisfaction.
However, it is not the type structure that determines the success of the organization. Rather, it is whether the structure employed fits the people with in the organization. Whether the management can work with the particular kind of structure and whether the employees are comfortable and able to derive satisfaction from working this way.
This is where Human Resource Planning comes in.
Not only must one know when and where to bring in talents, where to put them.
Job profiling can be done to find the best person to fit the job or vise-versa.
This is important as if the wrong person is given the wrong job, he will not be satisfied and this will decrease productivity. He may not be able to do the job well either.
E.g. If someone who does not like decision making is given a job under a highly decentralized management structure, he will be satisfied as he's forced to make decisions.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
SORRY~! Been MIA-ing~
Hey....
Haven been updating lately....
Sorry if any one's waiting for me to post...
Noticed the significant drop in number of hits...
Been really busy...
Just got back from dance class...
Went to Tioman for advance open water course over the weekend and only got back on monday evening...Then went for dance chalet the next day....got home this afternoon...took a nap...then went for dance class...
SHag~ but I'm LOVIN IT!!
DANCE. EAT. SLEEP. REPEAT.
Anyway, I hope everyone's doing great! And doing their best.
I'm trying to be my best too~
Hope I'll be able to post more meaningful stuff for you guys to read soon~
GO Monkey Spirit!
Haven been updating lately....
Sorry if any one's waiting for me to post...
Noticed the significant drop in number of hits...
Been really busy...
Just got back from dance class...
Went to Tioman for advance open water course over the weekend and only got back on monday evening...Then went for dance chalet the next day....got home this afternoon...took a nap...then went for dance class...
SHag~ but I'm LOVIN IT!!
DANCE. EAT. SLEEP. REPEAT.
Anyway, I hope everyone's doing great! And doing their best.
I'm trying to be my best too~
Hope I'll be able to post more meaningful stuff for you guys to read soon~
GO Monkey Spirit!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
So busy with school.....
Hey...
been a long time since I last posted...
sorry guys if anyone is waiting for my next post...
have beeb really busy tryign to study for tests...
it's CA week...
term break's coming...
hope i'll have time to update soon.....
hope everyone's doing fine~
been a long time since I last posted...
sorry guys if anyone is waiting for my next post...
have beeb really busy tryign to study for tests...
it's CA week...
term break's coming...
hope i'll have time to update soon.....
hope everyone's doing fine~
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