Management Skills: Reflective Journal Assessment
Vo Hoang Bac
Management Skills
September 13th, 2014
Professor Nigel Barrett

Management Skills: Reflective Journal Assessment
This reflective report will focus in five different assessments to figure out the differences between individual responses with group opinions. Then, reflection for each topic will be also discussed to see what individual can learn from these processes. The purpose of this paper is to display the personal reflection after comparing individual responses and group responses with five objectives. The first objective is reflection 1 analyzes organizational ethics and the influence of Eastern cultures on choosing the best candidate; the second is reflection 2 describes culture differences, self – awareness, and the techniques to match, and to manage the cross – cultures; third is reflection 3 discusses about work and life balance that might help each manager manage well both in work places and at home; the forth is determining the approach to foster the creative problem solving which bases on the preserving problems in the library; and the last is reflection 5 applies the assessment model to solve the conflict in construction engineering company. These five assessments are surely very important for every manager. According to Rockefeller (2003), there are two most important aspects which CEO must care are creativity and social norms. He also mentioned, “It is very important to operate the firms within the framework of cultural, social, and economic values held by the people who will benefit from these operations” (p. 6). It means that a good manager not only has to concern about profit, but understands more about people with all hidden inside for a stable business. Therefore, this reflection report will focus more on cross – cultural management and work/life balance. So I would like to