self-directed

Examples of self-directed in the following topics:

• Teams

  • Cross-functional teams often function as self-directed teams responding to broad directives.
  • The growth of self-directed cross-functional teams has influenced decision-making processes and organizational structures.
  • Up until recently, decision-making flowed in one direction.
  • The rise of self-directed teams reflects these trends.
  • Intra-team dynamics tend to become multi-directional rather than hierarchical.

• Context and Current Events

  • The goals of PBL are to help the students develop flexible knowledge, effective problem solving skills, self-directed learning, effective collaboration skills, and intrinsic motivation.
  • In PBL, students are encouraged to take responsibility for their group and organize and direct the learning process with support from a tutor or instructor.
  • Advocates of PBL claim it can be used to enhance content knowledge while simultaneously fostering the development of communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and self-directed learning skills.

• The Promotion Mix

  • There are five (sometimes six) main aspects of a promotional mix: Advertising, Personal selling, Sales promotion, Public relations, and Direct marketing.
  • Examples: Print ads, radio, television, billboard, direct mail, brochures and catalogs, signs, in-store displays, posters, motion pictures, Web pages, banner ads, and emails.
  • Examples: Coupons, sweepstakes, contests, product samples, rebates, tie-ins, self-liquidating premiums, trade shows, trade-ins, and exhibitions.
  • Direct Marketing is a channel-agnostic form of advertising that allows businesses and nonprofits to communicate straight to the customer, with advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.

• The Promotion Mix

  • Examples of advertising include: Print ads, radio, television, billboard, direct mail, brochures and catalogs, signs, in-store displays, posters, motion pictures, Web pages, banner ads, and emails.
  • Examples of sales promotion include: Coupons, sweepstakes, contests, product samples, rebates, tie-ins, self-liquidating premiums, trade shows, trade-ins, and exhibitions.
  • Direct marketing includes advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.
  • Examples: Print ads, radio, television, billboard, direct mail, brochures and catalogs, signs, in-store displays, posters, motion pictures, Web pages, banner ads, and emails.
  • Examples: Coupons, sweepstakes, contests, product samples, rebates, tie-ins, self-liquidating premiums, trade shows, trade-ins, and exhibitions.

• Government Regulation

  • Governments use laws and regulations to point business behavior in what governments perceive to be beneficial directions.
  • Regulation can take many forms: legal restrictions promulgated by a government authority, contractual obligations that bind many parties (e.g., "insurance regulations" that arise out of contracts between insurers and their insureds), self-regulation by an industry such as through a trade association, social regulation, co-regulation, third-party regulation, certification, accreditation, or market regulation.
  • Governments use laws and regulations to point business behavior in what governments perceive to be beneficial directions.
  • Interest group transfers - regulation that results from efforts by self-interest groups to redistribute wealth in their favor, which may be disguised as one or more of the justifications above.

• Styles of Leadership

  • A leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
  • A leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
  • They believe direct supervision to be key in maintaining a successful environment and followership.
  • It allows followers a high degree of autonomy and self-rule, while at the same time offering guidance and support when requested.
  • To critics, narcissistic leadership (especially destructive) is driven by unyielding arrogance, self-absorption, and a personal egotistic need for power and admiration.

• Employee Responsibility

  • Social affiliation, belonging, a sense of self-respect, a feeling that what one does is meaningful, accountability, and finally self-actualization are identified as the more powerful and higher level motivators.
  • From this perspective, empowering employee responsibility fulfills critical needs in terms of self-esteem (the fourth level of the hierarchy) and, to some degree, self actualization (the fifth level).
  • Managers should actively listen to how the employee suggests pursuing a given task, and provide suggestions and feedback to ensure the employee is moving in the right direction relative to the long term strategy of the organization.

• Socialism and Planned Economies

  • While many socialists advocate for economic planning as an eventual substitute for the market for factors of production, others define economic planning as being based on worker-self management, with production being carried out to directly satisfy human needs.
  • Accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labor-time.

• Goal-Setting Theory

  • Choice: Goals direct efforts towards goal-relevant activities and away from distractions.
  • A goal is important because it establishes a specified direction and measure of performance.
  • Self-efficacy – one's belief that he is able to achieve the goals
  • Not only does participation increase commitment in attaining the goals that are set, participation influences self-efficacy as well.
  • In such cases, the goals of an individual may come into direct conflict with the employing organization.

• MacGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

  • His initial work focused on demonstrating two contrasting motivators in the workplace: external motivators such as supervision, rewards, penalties, and rules (X) versus internal motivators such as passion, job satisfaction, accountability, and feelings of self-worth (Y).
  • Theory Y assumes that employees enjoy a challenge, and strive to add value for the sake of self-worth and a desire to contribute to a community.
  • Through a hands off management approach, it can be easy to lose alignment, as different individuals go in slightly different tactical directions.
  • Under Theory X, management uses control to direct behavior.