Leadership Orientation
Prompt:
Personal Perspective:
What frame/s do you most closely identify yourself with? What does this worksheet reveal about your predominant personal/work values?
Real World Application:
Taking into account at least two of your frame orientations, and your prominent personal and work values, what is your initial assessment of the prominent cultural norms of your internship city and workplace? Use this description of Chronemics (Links to an external site.), which is the study of different cultures’ use of time and prominent nonverbal communications, to begin exploring the prevailing norms and practices of the people you work and live with in your internship city. How is the culture similar to your hometown? How is it different?
Response:
The frames that I most likely identify myself with is being a Human Resource. Mainly, my predominant work values rely upon depending on my team to succeed and feeding off each others success. Mainly, I like to believe in the importance of a team participation and good working environment to be a source of motivation. An individual should not want to succeed only because of goals, but because of not letting down the people around him to work.
One of the most interesting norms mentioned by the Chronemics link is the fact that the team operates under a Polychronic time. What this means is that rather than getting everything on time and precise, multiple things can be done at once and this leaves room for flexibility. Taking into account the political aspect, the founders of my startup does certainly employ this principle. Instead of only talking to potential investors, they like to interact with even the interns to give everyone a sense of belonging and also to develop a relationship with strong allies. This is all done by having one founder who is strong in the political aspect, while the Chief Technical Officer is very strong in the human resource aspect. Honestly, I agree that my office is Polychronic because, throughout my internships, meetings are often cancelled and re-scheduled because of other important priorities coming up which is then the most important task rather than attending any meetings. While this is very true with my higher-ups, but working with my direct partner who is the lead of our project, he is the opposite time. Employing a monochronic principle, she would rather do one thing at a time. The only difference that I don’t agree is that while she is in this way, she is able to adapt and also be very flexible with her time. I believe most people fall somewhere in the middle and leans more towards one side, however seeing an extremist in this behavior is very unlikely in my opinion.
Personal Perspective:
What frame/s do you most closely identify yourself with? What does this worksheet reveal about your predominant personal/work values?
Real World Application:
Taking into account at least two of your frame orientations, and your prominent personal and work values, what is your initial assessment of the prominent cultural norms of your internship city and workplace? Use this description of Chronemics (Links to an external site.), which is the study of different cultures’ use of time and prominent nonverbal communications, to begin exploring the prevailing norms and practices of the people you work and live with in your internship city. How is the culture similar to your hometown? How is it different?
Response:
The frames that I most likely identify myself with is being a Human Resource. Mainly, my predominant work values rely upon depending on my team to succeed and feeding off each others success. Mainly, I like to believe in the importance of a team participation and good working environment to be a source of motivation. An individual should not want to succeed only because of goals, but because of not letting down the people around him to work.
One of the most interesting norms mentioned by the Chronemics link is the fact that the team operates under a Polychronic time. What this means is that rather than getting everything on time and precise, multiple things can be done at once and this leaves room for flexibility. Taking into account the political aspect, the founders of my startup does certainly employ this principle. Instead of only talking to potential investors, they like to interact with even the interns to give everyone a sense of belonging and also to develop a relationship with strong allies. This is all done by having one founder who is strong in the political aspect, while the Chief Technical Officer is very strong in the human resource aspect. Honestly, I agree that my office is Polychronic because, throughout my internships, meetings are often cancelled and re-scheduled because of other important priorities coming up which is then the most important task rather than attending any meetings. While this is very true with my higher-ups, but working with my direct partner who is the lead of our project, he is the opposite time. Employing a monochronic principle, she would rather do one thing at a time. The only difference that I don’t agree is that while she is in this way, she is able to adapt and also be very flexible with her time. I believe most people fall somewhere in the middle and leans more towards one side, however seeing an extremist in this behavior is very unlikely in my opinion.