Human Resource Management

Self-Awareness and Self Development

Module Code HR 0381

Northumbria University

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Introduction
Human Resource Management is a vital function of all the management disciplines and it is
necessary to focus attention to develop personal awareness. Self-awareness is an important field
that helps to develop, understand the capabilities, attitudes, values, emotions, feelings and, any
more personal things that will help to control people well. This report is included the personal
awareness process and development process of writers and a self-made development plan to
achieve targets within a certain time period.

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Table of content

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2

Table of content .............................................................................................................................. 3

Table of figures ............................................................................................................................... 3

1.0 What is Self-Awareness and Importance .................................................................................. 4

2.0 Self Development & Importance .............................................................................................. 5

3.0 Personal Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 7

5.0 Analysis Tools Johari Window Model .................................................................................. 8

5.1 Open/ Free area ..................................................................................................................... 9

5.2 Blind Area ........................................................................................................................... 10

5.3 Hidden Area ........................................................................................................................ 10

5.4 Unknown Area .................................................................................................................... 10

6.0 Belbin Report .......................................................................................................................... 11

7.0 MCI ......................................................................................................................................... 12

8.0 Learning Style Model ............................................................................................................. 13

9.0 Personal Development and Awareness Analysis .................................................................... 13

10.0 Personal Development Plan .................................................................................................. 15

Bibliography ................................................................................................................................. 17

Table of figures
Figure 1 Personal Development Process (Benson & Zhu, 2002) ................................................... 6
Figure 2 Johari Model (Berg and Feij, 2003) ................................................................................. 9
Figure 3 Nine Roles in Belbin Report (Delaney, 2001)................................................................ 11
Figure 4 Learning Styles Model ................................................................................................... 13

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1.0 What is Self-Awareness and Importance

Any person will accept that the most important person to himself is his or her own self. So it is
very much important to get aware of the inner space of the person. The self-awareness includes
personality, strengths, weakness, attitudes, motivational feelings, religious life, emotions, and
feeling and believes. (Delaney, 2001) When a person knows very well of himself he will getting
understand of others very well too. Then he will be good at making long live relationships rather
than just business transactions, maintaining the relationships in an appropriate way. Self-awareness
is also important in personal development also. Person who is understand the weakness and the
strengths of himself can take necessary actions to develop the career life as well as the personal
life by covering the gap between expected and the present situation Caldwell, C., & Hayes, L.A.
(2016).

Mindfulness, Rumination and the mediate the mind can be determine as the self-awareness (Gu,
et al., 2015). When a person get a certain level of self-awareness he or she can develop the personal
limits and use strengths to build up relationships. Self-awareness is not only about the mindfulness
and it going more beyond the personality, strengths and weakness. Understanding about the
mindfulness, personality, weakness and strengths cause to the limit work related stress, personal
stress and over come from the independent difficulties. Reflection helps to review of the past time
and make space to choose the right decisions in the future circumstances. According to Feldman,
G., Dunn, E., Stemke, C., Bell, K., & Greeson, J., (2014), self-Awareness also engaged in the
enahancing indivudual performance, effectiveness and efficiency.

There are number of studies have been conducted regarding the self-awareness and most studies
discovered that self-awareness is simply can defined as being aware about yourself and also it is
engaged in self-confidence. Moshavi, Brown and Dodd (2003). It is also helps to knowing your
attitudes believes value send tendencies. So we can say self-awareness really matter to personal
life.

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As I had stated above there are many important facts of learning for developing self-awareness.
The most important thing is become more peaceful with yourself. When you're having a time to
listen for yourself you can understand your feelings emotions and you will be able to understand
your needs and wants exactly. So you will be Discover more about yourself and you can address
the wants and needs of your own.

Self-awareness is a better way to communicate with others. Which means when you have more
understand about yourself and it will help to understand others also. So you can understand needs
and wants, feelings, emotions of other people then you can address to the point.

Self-awareness will also help to make personal and career decisions correctly this means when
you clearly know about yourself as well as others you can take the appropriate decision when time
came.

2.0 Self Development & Importance

Personal development is a lifelong process change to develop personal skills, attitudes and abilities
development. Also help to access our present situation and identify the gap between present
situation and the expected situation. ( Aggarwala, 2007) This expected situation is depending on
our vision, mission of our personal life as well as career life. To have a better personal development
you have to build personal goals, targets and aims to ensure the maximum usage of limited
resources such as time and money.

By developing a proper self-development plan you can ensure your self-confidence professional
prospects and the quality of life. The personal development plan which is main part of the self-
development activities will help positively and effectively to person who wish to acquire self-
development. (Ann & Bartel, 2000)

There are many researchers have been conducted regarding the self-development such as Abraham
Maslow's need hierarchy. This is a very important theory that suggest every human being is having

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inbuilt needs for personal development and ensure the sustainability in the environment he or her
exist.

As per the Maslow's need hierarchy there are 5 steps to be completed for getting full and final self-
actualization. First step is physiological needs which suggest food, water, rest and other basic
needs to be survive. The second step is safety need this engaged job security as well as personal
security. The third step is belongings and love needs (Chen and Chiu , 2009). As human beings
we all are likely to be with our friends and beloved ones. The next one is steam need which is
engaged in feeling of accomplishment. The final step is self-actualization this is a step that man
can hardly get in this it is full of creativity and mindfulness.

When we talking about the managing self-development, there are five steps to be followed as per
the below diagram.

Developing a
Personal Vision

Assesing the
Riview and
Current
Rewise
Situation

Start the Prepare

Development Development
Plan in Practicle Plan

Figure 1 Personal Development Process (Benson & Zhu, 2002)

First Step Developing a personal vision this refers to the developing a personal vision regarding
the targets to be achieved in a certain time period. Vision statement determines the place where
you wants to go.

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Second Step Assessing the Current Situation by using a personal SWOT analysis you can
assess the current weakness, strengths, opportunities and threats to your targets.

Third Step Prepare development plan in this step you will develop a personal development
plan according to the SWOT analysis you have done in the previous step and your vision statement.

Fourth step Start the Development Plan in this step you will start the development plan
according to your time line. All the actions taken regarding the development plan should recorded
and the progress to be timely measured.

Final Step Review and Revise by checking the records of your development plan you can
change the game plan or continue the plan. (Gu, et al., 2015)

3.0 Personal Analysis

As per the assignment criteria, I will provide a brief analysis on myself. Im, 27 years old and
currently Im following a degree program of B.Sc. management. My future ambition is to complete
master of Business Administration course and become a manager in retail Sales sector. Currently
I am working as an industrial placement as per the requirement of my degree program in a retail
sales organization. Other than that I have some specific targets to be completed within next 5 years.
I have to complete my degree program, complete my master of Business Administration program
and find a perfect job which is matching to my educational and working experience.

From the social perspective I have a relationship with my partner for over 3 years and we
are learning to getting married within next 5 years and it it's also MI Prime target for the next 5
years I'm time to follow my father and elder brother as the motto of my life they are doing huge
impact on my personal life and personal development when I have to make a choice on something
I am always repairing my decision for them and taking and rice from them in group locations little
shy to express my feelings in public And also sometimes speak in public getting me nervous and
uncomfortable however I strongly believe that I have enough motivation attitudes and values
through my personal development and professional development In order to getting in with self-
awareness and self-development I have referred many theoretical resources and finally I came up

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with three choices I have used them to prepare my personal development plan as shown in the end
of this report.

5.0 Analysis Tools Johari Window Model

Joe Luft and Harry Ingham developed this model of self-awareness to analyze and better personal
understanding. They named it Johari by combining the first names of them, Joe and Harry. This
is a widely used model in self-awareness sector in personal management and it is used for personal
development, to improve communication skills, develop interpersonal relationships, and group
dynamics with team development (Moreover, Shenton, 2007). Many scientists are refer the Johari
model as a self-awareness analyzing tool but also as an information processing toll, disclosure or
feedback tool for personal development. This model is demonstrating the feelings, motivation,
attitudes, skills, values and views of a person. The Johari model can use for analyze a person within
a group or analyze group within another set of teams or groups. (Berg and Feij, 2003)

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Figure 2 Johari Model (Berg and Feij, 2003)

There are four slides of the model and they are open area, blind area, hidden area and unknown
area.

5.1 Open/ Free area

Open or the Free area is also knows as the free activity area. This area refers that the known by the
person about himself or herself very well. And also this known about himself or herself is also
known by the people who living in the near environment such like family members, friends and
other close relatives. Known things of a person refers to skills, motivation factors, attitudes, values,
emotions, feelings and knowledge. The main goal of any person or the group is developing the
open area for every person or group (Camps & Luna-Arocas, 2009). Because those area contains
factors that helps us to work or perform tasks in maximum efficiency and the effectively. So
developing open area of a person and getting well known about the personal capacity and the
capabilities is really important to personal life as well as the career life.

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5.2 Blind Area
This is the area which a person dont know about himself or herself but others in the near
environment such as friends, relations know about him or her. Mainly these known factors by
others are bad habits such as laying, anger or temper, sad mood, negative thoughts like wise. So a
person interesting on self-awareness is necessary to reduce this area and try to improve or enhance
the open area. (Berg and Feij, 2003)

5.3 Hidden Area

This area contains the facts that person know about him or her elf but other in the near environment
dont know. Every person has personal limitations to expose him or herself to the external
environment and this private area is contains with sexual feelings, anger, needs of pleasure and
sad, future expectations and many personal thoughts depends on the personal experience.

5.4 Unknown Area

This area contains the facts that a person and near environment both dont know about the person.
This is complete blind and hidden area. But in rare occasions the things hidden in this area expose
to external environment. Such like in a conflict situation some people are showing extreme courage
that anyone never seen from him. So that kind of feelings and values are hidden in this area and
them reflect in the public life. (Berg and Feij, 2003)

According to my personal life experience regarding the Johari window model there in same size
windows for the personal and hidden windows. That means there are many things that me and my
close relatives friends are known about me and there is same size window of my personal life that
never expose to the external environment. As I said before in the personal introduction given above
Im very much likely to keep myself to me and also I do believe that on the social life in same
manner. However I do not like to external people entering to my personal life matters and I also
reject to enter others personal lives.

I also believe that there are more unknowns areas or the skills in myself such as leadership skills,
communication skills, public speaking skills and many more in my unknown area. Im trying to
get them out from the unknown area to increase my performance in personal and career life.

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6.0 Belbin Report
In 1969, Dr Meredith Belbin was developed the Belbin report concept. He was studying on the
individuals

Figure 3 Nine Roles in Belbin Report (Delaney, 2001)

Behaviors of individuals in various kinds of theme and what are goals they are engaged inside of
a team. Then he was able to identify nine kinds of roles that people in teams are engages when
performing a group activity. To become a well-balanced team or group these all kind of roles need
as per the Belbin (1969). Well balanced team will lead to maximum usage of the limited resources
in an efficient and effective manner and achieve corporate goals than ordinary groups who having
unbalanced member combination.

Regarding to myself as per the Belbin report making, I thinks Im more close to Implementer and
the Plant roles. Because Im likely an introverted person and not like to engage with other more.
So I like to analyze the situation and try to find solutions but not too much move with others. So I
think Plant role is the perfect role to describe myself in tem working and it will help to aware

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myself well. Gathering data and turn them to information and analyze them regarding the problems
facing by team members and try to find solutions to them is preferred to me.

Belbin Report also can be connected with the Johari window. Regarding myself, Open and Hidden
areas allows me to develop personal contacts, develop interpersonal skills, maintain the
interpersonal relationships, make aware of myself as well as my close relative while keep my
personal life to me. Hidden area is representing the personal life, feelings, emotions and Plant role
in team work is helping me to observe others behavioral and analyze the situations and find the
solutions to conflict situations that my team facing.

7.0 MCI
MCI refers the Management Charter Initiative and the model can be used to analyze the personal
competency of a person. Competency refers the ability to do something. As per the MCI model
skills are the only fact for performing a task there more than that needed to perform a task (Wills,
1993). MCI model as a questioner to complete that provides and undertake the personal review or
self-evaluation. As an example, when I have applied this model to myself, it will give the outcome
of, where is Im focusing, what are the current learning needs, what are the targets to be achieved,
what kind of guidance you needed. And also MIC helps to share and compare others personal
analysis with my own personal awareness. I do not believe this model done not works on me very
well as per the previous models. Actually according to the Johari model my free area and Hidden
windows is in same size but there is considerable windows on the blind area also. I rather believe
some of my qualities are not matched with the peoples expectations of around me. So this kind of
model cannot make aware of those.

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8.0 Learning Style Model
Learning style model was introduced by the Dunn and Dunn. When we tend to learn on something,
learners are showing independent patterns that they can learn easily. These patters demonstrate the
way they deal with the problems occur in the learning process. (Zapalska and Brozik, 2006) So
according to the model learners
are more expose more confident
and success in working their own
way and keep learning.
According to this model, there are
various kinds of proven factors
influence from kindergarten to
adulthood learning process.

Figure 4 Learning Styles Model

Each learner has a unique combination of his or her preferences. And also these presences may be
strong and directly affect for the learning process of the learner and increase the effectivity. Some
preferences may moderate and they may do not strong effect in the learning process. However
these models in my context of learning on myself or the self-awareness, I would much like to
follow the alone elements in sociological elements category and analytic elements are my best
preference to learning. This means I really do not like to mixed up with others too much and
continue my learning in alone and based on my own analysis.

9.0 Personal Development and Awareness Analysis

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According to all of these models I can say that Im a person that more likely to be myself and find
solutions by my own way. I do not thinks this is the most appropriate way to behave. But as per
my interests in myself, I would like to keep Hidden window in same size as well as free area
window. I like to develop myself by learning but not too much interferer with others. And also I
believe that I have enough motivation and skills to lead a tea to achieve corporate targets. As per
the below personal development plan I can elaborate my future ambitions and ways that I have
chosen to follow.

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 10.0 Personal Development Plan
What do I want/need to learn, Learning and Practical and academic Methods of review and Completion Dates
Development resources criteria
Activities

I need to develop my leadership I have to learn Industrial training in the I believe people around Within the next two
skills different leadership degree program and various me will recommend as a years
skills, where to use kinds of social activities that I person who suitable to
2017-2019
them have attended in my lead their tem when u
university life has given the had developed enough
What is the suitable
leadership skills. And also I skills. And also I have to
skill to use
believe that working as team develop self-confidence
helps me to develop and enhance and
leadership skills in my develop open area as per
working pace as well as in the the Johari model to be
university class room close with others.

I need to achieve my educational I have to complete Lecture panel of the Achieving the Degree 2017-19 Degree
targets the degree program university and MBA
2019-2021 - MBA
I have to enrollee Friends, peers and colleagues
and complete the
People who working in the
Masters degree
industrial placement with me
Program

I have to develop
professional
qualifications

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I need to develop inter personal I have to learn how People who working with me Self-accomplishment of All over the life
skills to identify people in the industrial placement developing
and their needs interpersonal
Friends in the university
relationships
I have to understand
External social and related
how to convert a
education on the relationship
business transaction
building
to a long live
relationship

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