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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 550

Course Title: Masters of Science in Project Management

Lecturer: Maureen Boland

Word Count 2,791

Assignment 2

Individual Analysis: Assessing and Developing Emotional Intelligence

Student: Abraham L. Maker

Student No15449342

5th May. 11

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: 3

PART 1: - SELF ASSESSMENT USING SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES 3

IPIP Introversion-Extroversion Scale 3

The scales of money attitudes 4

TWO “TEAM PROCESSES” SELF-ASSESSMENTS 4

Team Roles Preference Scale 4

Team Player Inventory 5

TWO “ORGANISATIONAL PROCESSES” SELF-ASSESSMENTS 5

Tolerance of Change Scale 5

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 6

Emotional Empathy Scale 6

PART 2: - OVERVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE 6

Job Satisfaction and Performance Practices 6

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation 6

Zest in the Workplace 7

Prima Donnas” in the Workplace 8

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE 8

Mechanistic vs. Organic Structures 8

Tolerance to Change 9

PART 3: - APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS 9

Organisational Structure and Tolerance to Change 10

CONCLUSION 10

REFERENCES: 11

INTRODUCTION

The point of this report is to develop some insights into self-assessment tools as a technique for self-evaluation and improvement, as part of continual improvement and professional learning. In addition, through use of the self-assessment tools, areas of interest can be explored with regards to my own self-awareness and self-evaluation, but firstly it will define what emotional intelligence is. Emotional Intelligence is defined as “a set of abilities to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in oneself and others” (McShane, Olekalns and