Management of Organisational Health
This assignment would follow the Gibbs’ reflective framework for reflection:
The module unit of Organizational health has been an interesting unit in this semester and had mainly covered around eleven topics. The professors had given lectures on each of the topics in details and had solves many of the queries that arose in the classes when the topics were taught. However, this subject was quite broad and constituted or vast number of important points that we had to learn and remember so that we can succeed in our future professional career. Some of the topics that I had found interesting is topic 11 which is ensuring employee engagement, topic 2 goal development, topic 8, marketing planning and many others. We got immense help from the professors and were able to develop an in-depth knowledge about each of the topic sufficiently.
Initially I was very excited as our professors were starting a new module and it we took it as an opportunity to enhance our knowledge on business professional development. However, as each of the topics proceeded I found it difficult to grasp so many concepts at the rapid rate and it was becoming very strenuous for me. I was stressed easily and I lost my interest on the topics. However, I understood that it could affect my future career if I do not learn about the topics in details, as I would not be able to apply the knowledge in my practical fields. Therefore, I motivated myself thinking of my future prospects and shared my issues with my professors. They suggested me to participate actively on the online portals and discussion carried on the discussion forums helped me understand the topic; apply them in real case scenarios and many others. We also conducted group studies among ourselves and this helped me a lot. Finally, I started feeling confident and gradually my anxiety level reduced. I also faced time management issues, as I could not complete my home chores within time after attending full day classes in the university. All these were giving me hard time to keep up with my university’s expectations to be ready with the module.
The good part of the learning of the module of organizational health management was that I was able to develop huge knowledge about how to help a particular organization to not only meet its profit but also how the employees working here can enjoy their work and perform beyond their potential to bring more success. The best part was that this knowledge would help me to excel in the future organization. The topics taught here would help me to not only manage the productivity given by the employees but also to develop strategies by which organizations can reach zenith of success, develop an organizational culture where employees feel more engaged, develop goals that are achievable and many others. These topics would be helping me to become one of the best businesses professional and can step up the pillars of success. The bad part of the entire lecture was that although I was developing a through theoretical knowledge about each of the concept, I could not relate with the real-life settings, as I could not understand how I have to apply them when real situations arise or when to apply the different knowledge. Therefore, I was quite concerned initially. Therefore, I poured out my concerns to the professors and they assured me that with the passing of the semester days, I would be able to participate in the discussion forums and I would be able to develop more skills by which I would be able to relate them with the real life scenarios in my future placements. The discussion forums had indeed helped me to understand application of the theories and models and made me more knowledgeable.
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After thoroughly analyzing the concept of organizational health management, I realized that it is actually the ability of an organization to function effectively and therefore to cope adequately, for changing appropriately as well as to grow from within. Through effectively learning about the different topics, I have understood how I can help an organization to reach the epitome of success. I can explain this with the help of an example. One of the topics that were taught to us was employee engagement. This topic is one of the most important aspect of organizational health as employees are the main drivers of the organizational success and more the employees find themselves engaged, the more they would be able to dedicate themselves to the organization and this would bring out more success (McGonagle et al. 2016). The three levels of engagement had been taught in the classes. One of them is the intellectual engagement where the employees would be thinking hard about the job so that he can do it better, affective engagements where the employee can fill positively about the job as well as social engagement where employees can utilize all the opportunities where they can discuss work related scopes for improvements. Therefore, I can understand from these lectures about the different actions that I as a leader can take up in my future organization so that I can motivate my employees in all the three important levels (Fridrich, Jenny and Bauer 2015). Moreover, I have also gathered huge knowledge about the position of marketing in development of organizational health. Learning about this topic had helped me to understand about how leaning to follow the customer preferences, applying proper marketing strategy, developing idea about their perspectives, developing products and services that align with their preferences and others might help in promoting the brand and ensure organizational health (Teimouri, Sarand and Hosseini 2017). Measuring and reporting of the financial performance is another area, that is quite significant and this would help to maintain the profit margin ensuring organizational success (Montano, Hoven and Siegrest 2014).
Conclusion and action plan:
After reflecting on my experiences that I have gained while attending the lectures, I realized that I become anxious when I am not able to understand particular topics and in place f taking effective steps to develop knowledge, I feel loss of confidence. Therefore, I need to develop self-regulation skills by which I can prevent occurrence of anxiety, stress or similar such barriers and in place handle them effectively and keep myself calm to find out strategies to overcome them (Pillay 2017). The next issue I faced is that I could not develop the knowledge to understand how to apply the theories in practical and could not understand which theory to be applied in which specific domains. Therefore, I took support of my professors and participated in online discussion forums that helped me in clearing many of my doubts. Moreover, I believe that I can gain more clarity during the time of my placements. Another personal skill that I need to develop is the time management skills. I realized that I have the habit of procrastination and cannot complete my work within time. Therefore, it is very important for me to maintain schedules in diaries where I would be planning my tasks, allocate proper timeframe for them, and note them down in diary. I would try to abide by the time fames so that I can complete the work by time and none of the work remains left. Moreover, I would also keep rewards for me so that I remain motivated to maintain time effectively.
References:
Fridrich, A., Jenny, G. J., & Bauer, G. F. (2015). The context, process, and outcome evaluation model for organisational health interventions. BioMed research international, 2015.
McGonagle, A.K., Huang, J.L. and Walsh, B.M., 2016. Insufficient effort survey responding: An under?appreciated problem in work and organisational health psychology research. Applied Psychology, 65(2), pp.287-321.
Montano, D., Hoven, H. and Siegrist, J., 2014. Effects of organisational-level interventions at work on employees’ health: a systematic review. BMC public health, 14(1), p.135.
Pillay, M., 2017, July. Advancing Organisational Health and Safety Management: Are We Learning the Right Lessons?. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 37-44). Springer, Cham.
Teimouri, H., Sarand, V.F. and Hosseini, S.H., 2017. Assessment of the relationship between intellectual capital and organisational health through mediator of employee empowerment (case study: Islamic Azad University employees Shabestar). International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 14(1), pp.11-23.
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