Design And Analysis Of Experiments - Explanation And Importance Essay.

Importance of Goal Setting in Life

Discuss about the Design and Analysis of Experiments.

Goal setting is the process for thinking about the ideal future and to motivate oneself in such a way that it turns the vision of the future into a reality. The process by which people set goals for themselves to chose the perfect way that they want to go. Every people has a set of goals that is set in his mind.

Goals are the most important part in the life of a person. The absence of goals makes life very much ordinary and plain and makes it difficult for the people to achieve the peak of success. I personally have set up my own set of goals and objectives that would help me to attain success in my life. I am an avid lover of travelling and have a special interest for wildlife. I have the goal to visit Africa to experience the vast range of wildlife in the continent. Professionally my goals are to become a good and dedicated employee in my office. I also dream of climbing the professional steps of success in my office gradually.

Career is very much important in one’s life. This is because of a number of reasons. Career helps to provide a sense of direction to my life. It also provides a general structure to life as because achieving career goals helps us to follow the right direction in life and deviates us from choosing any wrong directions (Wenger et al. 2014). A right path allows us to be social and make many friends in life. External rewards provided to the employees of the company include the rewards that come from an external source i.e. the employers. It has a direct relation to the job performance of the employees. Some external rewards are salary, bonus, fringe benefits, promotion, fringe benefits, profit sharing and many more as such. Internal rewards on the other hand refer to the non physical rewards that cannot be seen or touched but they can be emotionally felt by the people receiving the rewards. Some of the examples of internal rewards are words of praise from seniors, recognition, taking pride from the job.

Avoiding job stress and low morale is another challenge of workplace. Stress and low morale will affect the rate of work which in turn will harm the productivity. If a job is providing too much stress it should be better to leave the job and search for any other job (Sinsky et al. 2013). Modifying job situation will also seem to be stressful and boring at that time. It is better to approach the operations manager or the supervisor at that particular time and request him for a change in the work pattern.

Career Planning and its Significance

The most important commitment in one’s life is the parents and the responsibilities towards them. It is because of them that people have been able to achieve the present place. The primary importance can never shift from parents to anything else (Healy 2014). The secondary commitment is the office or workplace. While some may argue about the primary and secondary importance from the personal front it would always be the same. Striking a balance between both the responsibilities is a huge task for anyone. To maintain a perfect balance between personal and professional life one have to first create a routine to maintain a perfect time management in between both my commitments (Preiser 2015).

Part 3 of the course explains the details about the interests that a person have in his personal and professional life. Some of the work related interests are, analyzing a business to determine how it could operate better, managing a business or organization, managing assets and resources of a company, planning and developing the company and many more as such (Novakovich et al. 2017). Whereas the personal interests of an individual refers to his likings like he may like a sport, a TV program or he may have some interest on some other person in the workplace or anywhere else.

The intellectual capacity of a person is the ability of the person to build, think, reason or analyze something by applying his cognitive intelligence. Intellectual capacity has helped people to deduce, analyze the right decisions quite early than the others. The intellectual capacity is surely one of the personal assets and helps people to have a strategic advantage over others both in the personal front and also in the professional front (Moon 2013).

A popular quote is “Responsibility brings immense power”. This has been proved everywhere in the world. I myself showed immense responsibility in the company where I showed my sense of responsibility. My earlier company dealt with manufacturing and storing of woolen materials. I still remember that very day, we were scheduled to supply a large consignment to one of our most old and trusted client. The time when I entered office I saw gloomy faces of employees (Montgomery 2017). I got an idea about something bad has happened and managed to learn the whole thing from one of the executives. Our consignment which was scheduled to be delivered the next day was damaged by unanimous reasons. I decided not to search for the reasons and immediately called up the senior supervisor and informed him about the matter. However instead of advising me he left it out to me to decide the possible way out of the situation. I was lost in thoughts thinking about the consequences of such damage as we would surely be losing one of our premium clients. I decided to be honest and inform the client about the original situation and promised them of an urgent replacement within 15 days. I took the full responsibility of managing the whole task by myself. Finally I was able to provide the consignment within time to the client. My honesty impressed my client and they praised heavily about me. Thus this whole task proved my capability as a leader who can shoulder every responsibility of an organization and is free to face challenging situations.

Workplace Stress and Low Morale

The chart assessing the capabilities of a particular person is shown in Part 5 of the course. It shows a person’s ability to organize, socialize and communicate within the workplace or in personal space (Miley et al. 2016). The chart also has options on self managing and physical activities that are performed by different individuals.

I would describe the position of work in my life as the most inevitable part. Work makes a people organized and responsible and absence of such a necessary item in life will make me dull and lazy (Miley et al. 2016). Thus work will be the most prioritized in my life.

My current and expected commitments in my life are to take up the responsibilities of my parents and look after them and secondly to serve all the responsibilities of my workplace.

The most important rewards in my career were the first promotion and recognition which I received from the office. I regard it the best as that was something which I received for the first time and thus it has a special recognition in my heart.

Interview Report as on August 5, 2017. I interviewed John Edwards who is the new operations manager of Sony Electronics in Sydney. The place of the interview was Riverview Hotel located on the banks of Sydney River. I fixed the interview at lunch and reserved a table for both of us. We greeted each other with pleasantries and headed straight to the conversation. At first I asked him to describe about his job. His job is to coordinate all the operations of the company which plays a leading role in managing the raw materials and personnel. He explained that he has the responsibility to manage the inventory, purchase and supply the different kinds of materials from the suppliers and to the customers. The management of the company in Sydney has asked him to shoulder some additional responsibilities of Human Resources like screening some of the new recruits of operations team, training them on different activities of operations and planning. Mr. John had begun his career with a local electronic giant in the year 2005. Working there for 6 years and being promoted to a assistant manager in the company he gathered a lot of experience. In the year 2011 he joined Panasonic as an Assistant Operations manager where he worked with efficiency for another 4 years. However the lack of proper promotion chances forced him to quit the organization. He was also in search of a new challenge elsewhere which made up his mind to join Sony Electronics Sydney. He was appointed as one of the Senior Operations in charge which is a post higher than the Assistant operations manager but a post lower than the Operations manager. His hard work and dedication paid off when he was rewarded with the post of the Operations manager in charge as the previous operations manager was promoted to a different post.

Maintaining a Balance between Personal and Professional Life

His educational qualification was an envious one. He passed the secondary in the year 1996 from a reputed high school of Sydney. His dream of pursuing a MBA was fulfilled when he enrolled himself in the BBA course of Monash University Australia. He completed his masters in business administration in the year 2004 from the same university and also conducted a practical training on some special courses that helped him to get acquainted with some of the latest technology that different company uses to manage their daily activities. When Mr. Edwards asked about his job role seemed to be very pleased in his current role as an operations manager of Sony Electronics. He was however prompt to reply that he also enjoyed his previous workplaces and gathered a lot of experience from there. He explained that he has a special attraction for working with younger employees and says that the new generation of workers is much more advanced than they used to be. Mr. Edwards engages himself in training the new wards of all the complex activities that they have to perform while they work for the company. The training program is scheduled by him which is believed to be one of the best in the industry. He explained that the training program helps the new employees to have an adequate knowledge of the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that determine the working of the company. During his stint as an undergraduate student he attended two internship sessions with one of the leading manufacturing companies of Australia.

Next I asked him about his passion both personal as well as professional. He described sports cars as one of his oldest passions that date back to his schooldays. Professionally he described solving complex problems and taking and completing additional responsibilities with ease provides him immense pleasure. His special liking for working together as a team is also a point that was noted by me. He explained that team work helps the whole team to stay dedicated and motivated towards their work. He stated that prior to his joining there were some employees among the team who were not motivated enough to perform well and lacked the spark in them to achieve the results. He stated that when he entered the scene he decided to glue the team together so that they can perform as a joint team and make sure that everyone of the team comes to the help of each other thus making the team one of the best in the organization and also ensuring a huge success. “The fact that I work with a large number of employees both old and new and give them a new opportunity each and every day is incredible and makes me feel better” was the answer when I asked him about his feelings on working with a large number of people in the organization. He describes that he takes a challenge on recruiting new individuals in the organization. Meeting new people, hearing different answers and also learning new things from many of the new candidates is enjoyed by him. He says that he uses some special screening methods to test the potential of the candidates. He explains that “I always ask simple but tricky questions to the candidates and test their potential”. The questions include;

1. Why do you think the company will recruit you?
2. How can you use the technological components of the company to improve your performance in the company?
3. How can you see yourself after 5 to 10 years in the company?

Personal and Professional Interests

According to him the candidates always tends to provide general answers to such questions which diminishes their chances of recruitment. He selects the ones who provide the best answers to the questions. Mr. Edward also assesses the different skills and intelligence levels of the ones who are recruited in the industry.

One of the main tasks which he describes to be the toughest among all is the management of the financial resources of the organization. He is assigned by the company to play an important role in the budgeting, controlling costs and making sure to keep the organization on a financial track (Lee and Brett 2015). I asked him whether he performs any other financial operations to which he replied that financial operations is a vast task including forecasting the business, preparing the sales reports of the company and ensuring the implementation of strategic planning to reduce the costs of operating the business. He tells that he performs such tasks by cost benefit analysis to improve the efficiency of the organization and save time. Nowadays modern operations management even includes sustainability in the financial equation. He replied that his team supervised by him plays a leading role in managing both raw materials and personnel. As mentioned earlier purchasing and supply is very much important to the job. The main challenge according to him lies in communicating properly with all the team members of the organization. Communicating properly is one of the necessary needs of the organization as because the absence of a proper communication renders the organization ineffective and affects its performance (Little 2014). I was hesitant to ask about his salary but finally asked about it as I had to incorporate it in my interview. I saw a clear feeling of discomfort in his face when I asked the question and immediately decided not to proceed further on the following question. Finally I asked him about his strengths and motivating factors which has made him what he currently is. He replied that the largest strength is his honesty and dedication both in his personal as well as his professional life. He said that he does not take the help of others while motivating himself rather he is the one who motivates himself on his own. He believes that to achieve success he has to climb through the failures of life. 

Comparing the following qualities with such a successful person was beyond my imagination but I found some of the characteristics of the man similar to me like being honest both in the personal as well as the professional front and enjoying the work which I do. The interview lasted for 2 hours as we had our lunch in the meantime. I thanked Mr. Edwards a lot to make out time from his busy schedule and help me out. After a thorough analysis of the report I found out that my career choices were in accordance to my strengths.

Importance of Intellectual Capacity

Table No 2- Goal Settings Schedule

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