INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, NIRMA UNIVERSITY

MBA (FT 2018-2020) PROGRAMME

YEAR – II, TERM – VI

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
“BECOMING A LEADER: MY AGENDA”

SUBMITTED TO:-
PROF. SHRESHTHA DABRAL

SUBMITTED BY:-
1. Name- Aravind Puduval Roll No. 181207

DATE OF SUBMISSION :- 17/02/2020

 1. Plot your scores of all the three instruments that have been used viz. rumination,
personal effectiveness and locus of control.

PLOTTING OF SCORES

RUMINATION Rumination Flow Rumination Index

40.08 72.28 35.67
Personal Self-Disclosure Openness to Perceptiveness
Effectiveness Feedback
18 12 09
Locus of control Internality Externality (others) Externality (chance)
30 11 11

2. Write your interpretation of these scores to bring out your areas of strengths and areas
of improvement and change, what effective leadership behavior you are likely to show and
what will be your limitations.

RUMINATION

RUMINATION Rumination Flow Rumination Index

40.08% 72.28% 35.67%
What do the scores According to the Scores show that I am These scores depicts
mean scores, it can be high on flow. I can that I am
interpreted that I am distract myself easily comparatively low on
moderately low on and whatever I have this particular aspect
this particular aspect learnt in life or of emotions. And low
of emotions which support I have I will RI is good and
means negative use all at moments acceptable.
things cannot bother when I am feeling
me much and I low.
cannot hold them for
long.
According to the scores on this particular inventory it can be said that I am such a person who
believes in sharing things. I cannot keep things to me even if I am sad and that is quite obvious in
my behavior. I won’t say that I don’t ruminate that means that I don’t get upset about negative
things which are happening around me; even I do but that is for very short period of time. I will
try to find peace of mind with people whom I am comfortable with and rather running away from
things I will go and share with whom I have that connect. I sometimes even get angry or fight
without any reason, this is my biggest weakness but I sometimes cannot handle pressure and this
is the only way it comes out.

Areas of Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths Weakness
I can handle things provided I have support can I need to speak when I am in emotional trauma
be from family or friends. These negative things so there are times when I share without thinking
bother me for less period of time. So I that how it will have impact in future.
am not affected much.
Self-motivation is high; I am a focused and I get cranky while ruminating.
passionate person.
I am an outgoing and confident person who I fight without reasons and that sometimes
loves meeting people. Therefore it’s easy for creates big mess for me.
me to move on.
I believe in learning from experiences and Not open to much criticism
implying that into life.

Impact on Behavior

The way I deal with emotions can be easily observed the in the way I behave. So generally, I am
an enthusiastic, energetic person who loves exploring, meeting new people, making friends but
when I am upset or something bad has happened I will be low. People who know me can make out
very easily that there is something wrong going with me and there are high chances that I will end
up committing more mistakes when I have many thoughts going in my mind. So usually I don’t
think much what others have to say about me until it reaches to a peak but when it
reaches to that level I will be distracted until that peace of mind of mine has been achieved. I will
overthink about every situation and will be vulnerable and in order to handle that I call people
mostly best friend. And the funniest part is I cannot speak the original problem. I will speak random
shit.

Areas of Improvement and Change

Not reacting much and stop over thinking.

Stop taking people for granted who love me. Just because I know that they love me I am rude to
them at times when I am facing difficult situations.

I need to be more mature but I guess that comes with age and experience. But I can surely try to
analyze things in a better way which I am not doing right now.

Be more independent and try to handle my problems on my own because more or less I think
majority of the problems are created by my own self but I don’t want to own up because when I
was doing that thing which created this problem I didn’t have this thought.

Be more open to feedback and can work on that but only on those factors which are required.

Validation with Examples from my life

• So, when I was in 10th I wanted to go for Diploma but my parents didn’t want me to
go for it and that was the time I had fight with everyone in the family. So at that point
I was shattered. I didn’t want to meet anyone and that change in me was observed by
my father. I used to run away from things- I am a result-oriented person but at that
time I failed in Math in 1st term exams and this was one reason I couldn’t match up
my eyes. Music was the only thing which gave me peace. But one day dad took me
out to my favorite place and made me understand their reason of saying me no. That
year I ignored my mother for more than 3 months and now I regret about that but one
thing which happened fortunate was me and my father’s bond became stronger and I
understood their perspective also. The best part in my life is that when I told in 2nd year
that I want to go for MBA and my parents supported me for it.
 • Another example is from MBA I year, when I came here I was 20 years old; exploring
things. After 15 days I knew it’s not easy because it’s my first time out of home; away from
my comfort zone. And just after first trimester result, I was worried because I couldn’t score
as per my expectations. I couldn’t cope up with the Syllabus because I was weak in Math,
There came the role of some of my seniors Sanchit , Shrey . They used to hear me for hours
and give me suggestions as to what to do. That support is still there and those memories
will never fade away.

PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS:

According to the scores gained my effectiveness type is secretive.

Personal Self-Disclosure Openness to Perceptiveness

Effectiveness feedback
18 12 09
What do the scores According to the Scores in this These scores on
mean scores, I stand high particular factor perceptiveness show
on self-disclosure shows that I am that I don’t think as
which means that I moderately high on to how people
am very comfortable taking feedbacks perceive me. I am
in sharing feelings from people. happy in my own
and emotions. world.

Scores on personal effectiveness inventory depicts that I am high on disclosing my personal stuff.
Whatever I am feeling or if I am disturbed because of something I will go and speak it out. But
when it comes on taking feedback about me, I am not much open because I always shave fear of
being judged, what he or she will say so better I should not hear also. This depicts my habit of
running away from things. The last dimension is perceptiveness which means I don’t pay
attention to how people perceive me. I am happy in my own world and I showcase to others what
I want to.

Areas of Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses

Can handle stress easily. Fear of being judged stops me in getting the
real advice which can help me in getting better.

Moving on is easy for me. Sometimes I share information which is not

required and other person take advantage of me
getting vulnerable.

How others perceive me doesn’t bother me Taking feedback is still fine but implementing
therefore my vision and focus to achieve my that in life is very difficult.
dreams will always be high.

I adjust with respect to time and place. Understanding how world perceives me is a
tedious process and that’s why I have stopped
trying now.

Impact on Behavior

I am an extrovert, highly social and jolly person which can be observed easily in my behavior also.
So the way I greet people they say I am welcoming and that’s why it is easy for me to make friends.
With time I get attached to people without even thinking that whether they also expect the same
from me or not and then comes the phase where I expect and when these expectations are not met;
I end up fighting without even knowing that what that other person wants and if they try to say
also I become so rude as if they are my enemies but which is not the case. It is the way I react when
I am upset. I don’t want to hurt but it comes natural to me and at that phase I don’t even want to
hear from others that whether I am doing it correct or not. Then at that point of time what that third
person is thinking about me, I am least bothered. I just want to satisfy my ego.
Areas of Improvement and Change

Getting more acceptable to the reality that nobody is perfect and everybody has flaws which can
be corrected with time and will.
Be open to feedback atleast from those who love me like Mom, Dad and close friends.

Think before speaking because at the end of the day we all are social beings and we have to live in
society and acceptance matters for everyone.
Implementing the advice made by the close ones who genuinely cares for me.

Validation with Examples from my life

• I have a subject WCM- Working Capital Management, so in that we had a Presentation as

our component. I had to miss that presentation because I had to stay one more day in
Mumbai due to our client’s request. As I couldn’t say a no to my client, I had to miss the
presentation and then I went to meet Professor the day I came back to Ahmedabad. I was
expecting harsh words and a big no for taking presentation again. Instead my professor
praised me for acting responsible towards my client and she even took my viva. This
motivated me a lot to manage work and education parallelly.

LOCUS OF CONTROL

LOCUS OF Internality Externality (others) Externality(chances)

CONTROL 30 11 11
What do the scores Locus of control for The externality The externality
mean the internality is high. (others) is (chance) is
There is high self- comparatively very comparatively high
confidence and self low, which means I which shows that I
 motivation. don’t blame others have counter
for whatever has dependence. Lower
happened to me. the score better it is.

According to Loco Inventory, I am such a person who is self dependent and self motivated. I
believe in blaming myself for whatever has happened to me whether it’s good or bad. Externality
for others is very low which means that I don’t blame others and I don’t even depend on luck. Yeah
I agree that there can be luck factor but it doesn’t work without hard work and it comes from self
realization and motivation.

Areas of Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
High self motivation Sometimes I overlook others mistake because
for that also I blame myself.
It shows the responsible trait in my personality Leads to over confidence
Take ownership of my actions Difficulty in delegating tasks

Impact on Behavior

I am a highly enthusiastic and self dependent person that is why many a times people can see me
working alone because I find difficulty in delegating work and not only in delegating I believe that
everything comes with hard work so I always have habit of owning up which others don’t have;
atleast not when we worked in group assignments.

I believe whatever has happened till date is because of hard work put in from my side, support
from my loved ones and bit of luck has also worked in that aspect. But I think that if I didn’t
wanted to put efforts than other two factors will also be of no use.
Areas of Improvement and Change

Needs to have clear view of who is responsible for what.

As I have to work in team in future I need to delegate more in a better way.
Taking responsibilities are good but taking extra responsibilities is bad and people do take
advantage of that.

Leadership Behavior

The leadership behavior which I am going to show would be more like participative, trying to
engage others in decision making and making people responsible. I am extrovert and enthusiastic
and that can be seen in my daily activities therefore it gets easy for me to talk to people and to
understand them and then I would like to know their way of working if it matches its good, if it
does not then I will try to find a mid-way.

I have been placed with HDFC Life having designation as Key Accounts Manager and I will be
responsible to handle a team so there I cannot delegate work upto my choices. I need to know
others preference also and I would like to ensure that people are happy working with me. I need to
be more perceptive as to know that what others are perceiving about me when I am leading a team.

3. Prepare an action plan to show how you will work to reinforce your strengths and
improve upon your weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
I am an extrovert. I am emotional and sensitive
I am confident. It’s easy to annoy me.
I am focused and goal oriented. I don’t analyze situation before speaking.
I carry jolly nature. I cannot say No.

Action Plan to reduce my weaknesses

• First thing which I would like to do is I need to prioritize on the availability factor
for other people. This I would like to do till I join the organization like till July
 and I want to keep my group small because more the number of people, more one
needs to try for acceptability.
• Once I have prioritized I would like to make myself available for only those people
and if I even found someone in trouble than I would try to analyze both the
perspectives whether it will damage me or not and then only I will take any step.
This also I would like to achieve by July.
• The most important as I have mentioned that I want to make my group small, I
would also like to be only open to them. My habit of getting super excited and
sharing happiness has brought a lot of troubles for me.
• Other thing on which I have to focus is on perceptiveness. The way how others
perceive me is important because in corporate world I cannot be super excited and
react as I am doing here. Environment is different so the requirement and the way
I need to behave is also different and I need to work on them.

Strengths as Advantage
• I am jolly, friendly and approachable. This will help me in corporate life because
I have role of Sales Manager. By using these traits I can easily approach my target
customers and comfortably work with other employees as well. They will also
help in my personal life, I will be able to adjust with my in- laws after marriage.
• I am goal oriented and focused as well. Therefore this will help in achieving the
targets easily.
• My helpful nature and self awareness will help me in leading a team in the
organization and in my personal life it will help in getting acceptability from
others.
• I am always open to accept the task or I take the tasks voluntarily was mentioned
by many people. From this it can be inferred that I am an opportunity seeker and
this trait of mine can help me in growing and achieving heights in my career.