The Importance Of Successment

A sense of meaningfulness is moderately rewarding for me. I like feeling as if the work I am doing is for a purpose. However, it is not nearly as rewarding as actually progressing towards that purpose. Achievement is more important to me than opportunity. For me, the opportunity to do something meaningful is not nearly as fulfilling as progressing towards a meaningful purpose. Yet, if I do not feel like my work has much of a purpose, I will be very discouraged and will not perform with a high quality. So, it is vital that a manager makes sure that I do not fall into this thought process. They ought to make clear that my work helps fulfill a greater purpose. Above that, though, they need to ensure that they do not make me feel as if my work …show more content…
Since I am so goal and progress oriented, it would be good for me to have a job where there are a lot of clear marks of progress that I can see. Since there can be levels of competence in any job, that would not be a large factor in considering a career path. However, I would need to make sure I would feel as if I had the potential to be competent at whatever job I had. Any job where I could achieve would be ideal. Since I am both a human resources major and a missional ministries major, there are a lot of options as to what my career could look like. Yet, in all of these options, I see ways in which I could be intrinsically motivated through achievement. I will seek to be so competent at whatever I am doing that it actually causes my coworkers to improve their quality of work as …show more content…
If possible I would show an employee the series of events they were a part of that caused a greater purpose to be fulfilled. With the dishes at camp example, it works like this. Since I cleaned the dishes well, the guests have clean plates and are not distracted by what is on their plate. Due to this, they can focus on the relaxation they get at camp and also on their relationship with God (since it is a Bible camp). I would also set up milestones for the employees to complete, and acknowledge when they do so. The recognition will help them realize that progress is occurring. Moreover, I would delegate tasks to employees and lead them to decide how to best complete the tasks. If they do a good job, I would acknowledge that so that they know they are competent at the work they are