Personality development: A practical self-teaching course comprising health, posture, dress, grooming, voice and speech, conversation, social and business etiquette, self-confidence, poise, living and working with others, acquiring background, improvement of mind and character, achieving success and happiness. Unit 5. Your way of life.

Purpose This paper aims to enumerate the factors influencing the process of decision-making, those which are mostly related to personality affected by cultures and sub-cultures dominating the individual’s life, such as possessing internal and external control agents, tolerating or avoiding ambiguities and its comparison with a belief in fatalism or free will and the effect of these beliefs and traits on the personality. Design/methodology/approach This paper demonstrates that these beliefs would result in the formation of different personal characteristics; for instance, active and passive individuals and those who are keen to discover problems to solve them and change the existing state of affairs to the desired ones. Some individuals can make decisions and some cannot. Findings The researcher has tried to make a comparative study and address the genuine Islamic culture as manifested in the Quran, Prophet’s Tradition and Shiite way of life. In this relation, the case studies are the Battle of Uhud and the Quranic verses related to the research to demonstrate that a Muslim manager, by dismissing fatalism while trusting in God’s blessing, could be distinguished from others. Originality/value This study adds to our knowledge that managers can make sound decisions by relying on their Shiite culture, self-confidence, rational thinking, consulting the wise people and above all trusting in God.

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The Influence of Educational Teacher- Learner Interaction on Adolescent Self-esteem

Pedagogika ◽

10.15823/p.2017.23 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 126 (2) ◽

pp. 115-129

Author(s):

Asta Meškauskienė

Keyword(s):

Personality Development ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Mutual Respect ◽

Learning To Learn ◽

Freedom Of Choice ◽

Learning Paradigm ◽

Close Link ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Learner Interaction ◽

Education And Development

The teacher-learner interaction, which is of relevance to the contemporary learning paradigm, is grounded on goodwill, mutual respect as well as trust and enables a learner to become autonomous, proactive and responsible. The essence of the teacher’s activity can be determined in the following way: it is most important to focus on maturity of learners’ personality, development of their intellectual powers, their own active and conscious learning providing all the support necessary for learners to enable them to develop competences that are relevant in life. Next to such competences to be developed as learning to learn, communication and creativity, a particular role is played by personal competence, which targets at education and development of an individual, who is dignified, self-respected and able to adequately self-evaluate. There is a transition from the teacher’s role as the head of the process of education to those as a learning organiser, opportunity creator and advisor, when the development of learner’s autonomy, independence and responsibility become underlying values of education. Following educational researchers, there exists a close link between the learner’s self-esteem and autonomy and the freedom of choice provided by teachers. The teacher’s respect for learners, his/her attention, encouragement and positive expectations contribute to the strengthening of learner’s self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Degree of Commitment (diqi) and Differential Peasant Resistance in Three Village Communities

Rural China ◽

10.1163/22136746-01702006 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 349-383

Author(s):

Xiao Wang ◽

Ying Tong

Keyword(s):

Rural China ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Silent Majority ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Self Interest ◽

Psychological Mechanism ◽

Village Communities ◽

Peasant Resistance ◽

Rational Reasoning

Abstract Centering on an analysis of the role of diqi, or the degree of commitment underlying one’s self-confidence and actions, this study investigates villagers’ differential responses to the same project of demolition of local residences in three neighboring communities in order to understand the psychological mechanism through which peasant resistance came to be differentiated. It is found that what sustained peasant actions was their shared moral commitment to a way of life rather than self-interest or rational reasoning. Different also from James Scott’s “subsistence ethic” or Ying Xing’s ethical power “qi,” however, what the villagers stressed was an “everyday ethic” that sought to preserve their current way of life. Their resistance took different forms because of the different levels of commitment (diqi) that influenced their choice of actions despite the same kind of impact on their ethic of everyday life. To protect the rights and interests of rural residents and alleviate their resistance, it is necessary to give weight to the ethic of the everyday way of life of villagers instead of the logic of capital and to pay attention to the fundamental concerns of the silent majority in rural China.

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Students’ Perceptions of the Value Addition of Management Education and its Enablers and Barriers

Global Business Review ◽

10.1177/0972150916666979 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 226-237

Author(s):

Anup K. Singh ◽

Richa Misra

Keyword(s):

Information Overload ◽

Management Education ◽

Personality Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Management Skills ◽

Value Addition ◽

Curriculum Redesign ◽

Self Confidence ◽

The Future ◽

Experiential Pedagogy

Today, all stakeholders are concerned about the value of management education to its students and thus its ultimate value addition to the industry. Faculty, employers and students differ in their perceptions of the value addition of management education. The present study attempts to understand the value addition of management education from the perspective of students. The three most important value additions of management education to students were self-confidence, communication and management skills. Further, the study examines the enablers of learning in management education. Experiential pedagogy, faculty and personality development activities emerged as the most important enablers. The study also investigates the barriers of learning. The three key barriers were information overload, ineffective assessment and irrelevant courses. The findings are discussed in the light of curriculum redesign of management education programmes. We recommend the need for management education to be more student centric and employability oriented, using experiential and project-based pedagogy. Finally, the article highlights the limitations of the present work and provides the directions for the future research.

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Medical leadership: interns’ perception on leadership skills: a qualitative study from Chennai

International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health ◽

10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20184598 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (11) ◽

pp. 4927

Author(s):

Sree T. Sucharitha ◽

E. Suganya ◽

Balaji Arumugam ◽

P. Shirley

Keyword(s):

Personality Development ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Leadership Skills ◽

Leadership Attributes ◽

Medical Graduates ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Medical Undergraduates ◽

Clinical Environments ◽

Personal Qualities ◽

Medical Leadership

Background: Medical leadership, an essential skill for the emerging medical graduates has been rarely studied in India.Methods: A formative research was undertaken among 30 interns selected by purposive sampling method. Triangulation of free listing, pile sorting was done to elicit their perception on leadership attributes. This was followed by a semi-structured focus group discussion to elicit the characteristics and solutions to obtain adequate leadership skills. The data was analysed using Visual Anthropac 4.98.1/X software.Results: Interns perceived communication skills, impartiality, patience, honesty, self-discipline, receptive to others opinions, knowledge of medicine, self-confidence, and guiding teams as major characteristics of effective medical leadership. The respondents admitted they were deficient in the understanding of leadership traits as it was not required of them as medical undergraduates. Internship period provided multiple platforms to develop leadership skills such as demonstrating personal qualities, working with others, goal setting and delivering services individually thereby overcoming a training gap during undergraduate period. Interns suggested that structured training on leadership skills and personality development coupled with exposure to challenging clinical environments during the undergraduate period will help them emerge as confident leaders.Conclusions: Medical education reforms should support the inclusion of leadership training in the MBBS curriculum.

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Physical Exercise and it's Benefits.

Pakistan Journal of Physical Therapy (PJPT) ◽

10.52229/pjpt.v3i4.862 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dr Syed Abdul Wasay Tanweer

Keyword(s):

Physical Exercise ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Personality Development ◽

Daily Basis ◽

The Body ◽

Exercise Session ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Balanced Diet

Physical exercise is an integral part of a healthy lifestyle. In order to live a healthy lifestyle one must emphasize on not just eating a balanced diet, but also on physical exercise. Physical exercise of any sort, from cardiovascular exerciseto running, jogging, swimming, lifting weights or even dancing may help improve the quality of one's life. Not only it has physical and mental health benefits, research shows that physical exercise might actually be able to reverse the process of aging itself. Physical activity is referred to such an activity which involves movement of muscles. It uses body's own energy to burn calories that produce heat and sweat. Physical exercise in turn increases blood flow of the body. It also produces potent vasodilators, including nitric oxide that further expands blood vessels. Oxygen rich blood is then carried easily to various parts of the body where it was hard to reach before. Cardiovascular exercise is now clinically proven to make the heart strong and for its longevity doctors prescribe a minimum of forty minute session per day. Physical exercise decreases the risk of heart attack, lowers blood pressure and eliminates bad cholesterol from the body. Due to the physical stress and movement, muscles and bones of the body are strengthened. Repeated wear and tear of muscles and bones hence provide an opportunity for them to grow. With proper nutrition and care physical exercise also helps in bodybuilding, along with the loss of excessive fat from the body. Physical exercise has also shown increase in glucose uptake by muscles, thus improving insulin sensitivity and greatly reducing the risk of diabetes. One of the most benecial side effects of physical exercise is weight loss, whereas inactivity or lack of exercise leads towards weight gain and obesity. Being overweight and obese is detrimental towards one's life and forms the basis of various underlying medical conditions. Not only does it make one look good, physical exercise makes one feel good too. It is clinically proven that daily exercise, produces dopamine and endorphins that elevates ones mood. The feel good factor that follows a good exercise session is contributed by changes in levels of hormones produced in the body. The changes in levels of serotonin, melatonin and cortisol all play an important role in wellbeing of one's mental state. One feels relaxed and it remarkably improves the quality of sleep as well. Physical exercise helps one gain focus and block negative thoughts and worries. It helps in fighting against anxiety and chronic depression. It also helps in personality development by boosting one's own self confidence and self-esteem. In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle one must incorporate physical exercise on a daily basis. Moreover one cannot ignore the healthy benefits that accompany physical exercise. In conclusion an hour of physical exercise daily can add years to one's life.

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