Three Features That Will Enhance Your Career
Paulina Banos
Grand Canyon University: UNV-504-PEO101
10/21/2014

Three Features That Will Enhance Your Career Venturing out to the real world after graduation can be exciting and scary all at the same time. One is stepping foot into a world where theory is replaced by practice, and where one is held accountable for their actions. This paper will explain how implementing three features: servant leadership, innovation and hybrid entrepreneurship, can enhance your career and future success.
Servant Leadership Servant leadership is a style of management that inspires to bring out ethical and moral behavior in an organizational setting. This kind of leadership style focuses on the beneficial outcome of their employees instead of the self-interest of the leader. In addition, servant leaders try to accommodate their employees in ways where they can succeed in completing their goals, function effectively in the workplace and have a sense of well being amongst their peers and supervisors. (Rivkin, Diestel, & Schmidt, 2014, 52-55).
Practicing Servant Leadership Stressors and strain found in the workplace can cause great harm to an individual. According to Rivkin et al., job strain can be caused by job ambiguity and emotional dissonance. Employees have reported that uncertainty of job functions and the lack of genuine expressed emotions from job roles can cause the feeling of “burnout” (Rivkin et al., 2014). In the health care industry, I plan to constitute servant leadership in all of my job roles and job functions. It has been noted that the relationship between servant leadership and one’s psychological health has benefited the well being of the employee as well as the organization. It fulfills the needs of the employee, increases their job performance and encourages them to execute the same kind of leadership; which in turn the organization grows and succeeds (Rivkin et al., 2014). Displaying this kind of leadership is a great way to grow a business with individuals who establishes trust amongst their peers, feels psychologically fit to perform their job functions, and meets the needs for them and their fellow peers to accomplish a goal. Innovation Innovation is the practice of taking existing products and ideas and changing them into more effective processes that will help your business succeed. Innovation also helps increase the productivity and performance of employees. An innovation-contest community is where users can implement, modify or recombine ideas found online that already exist. This allows users to create a community where like-minded can share ways to innovate a product (Fuller, Hutler, Hautz & Matzler, 2014, 274). Nowadays, technology has replaced the more traditional ways of interacting with the corporate world. Where we would once meet in a room for a staff meeting or training, we are now joining our colleagues through a virtual space online, such as Global Meet. We no longer need to be in the same city to get our ideas across. Therefore, the use of innovation-contest communities clearly shows its advantages when trying to innovate one’s business. As an entrepreneur, I will utilize this technique to gather ideas from like-mind individuals that will benefit my business and its success. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the act of commencing a new business independently owned from any other organization. As exciting as this may be, it can also cause individuals to fear and doubt the success of their business. One can reduce these elements by utilizing hybrid entrepreneurship. This type of entrepreneurship is starting a new business while still being employed with a different organization (Feng & Raffiee, 2014, 936). As I grow and expand my knowledge in my career, I will one day plan to launch my own business. Understanding that one might fail in doing so is vital for the success and survival of one’s business. My goal will be to become a hybrid entrepreneur to reduce the risk of failing which may lead to the extinction to a business. Research shows that maintaining a full-time job and being a part-time hybrid entrepreneur retains significant growth in entrepreneur activity (Feng et al., 2014). Owning your own business definitely delivers satisfaction and confidence to the business owner, but proper knowledge is needed to decrease the chances of “going out of business”. In conclusion, implementing these three features into one’s career ensures a successful and beneficial organizational life span.
References
Fuller, J., Hutler, K., & Matzler, K. (2014). ). User Roles and Contributions in Innovation-Contest Communities. Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(1), 273-308.
Jeng, F., & Raffiee, F. (2014). Should I quit my day job? A hybrid path to entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 57(4), 936-963.
Rivkin, W., Diestel, S., & Schmidt, K. (2014). The positive relationship between servant leadership and employees' psychological health: A multi-method approach. Zeitschrift für Personalforschung. 28(1/2), 52-72.