Questions On Their Identities, By Laura M. Roberts

Response-to-Reading: Cultivate Positive Identities â€Å"Cultivate Positive Identities.† Laura M. Roberts. How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact. Jane E. Dutton and Gretchan M. Sprieitzer. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014. 54-63. Work is a huge part of people’s lives and a salient source of meaning and self-definition for most individuals. Work helps people transform and modify how they define themselves. It helps people find their strengths and weaknesses, and it is also a tool to improve people’s attitude and views in life. Laura Roberts tackled the issue of building people’s positive identities and why it is important through â€Å"Cultivate Positive Identities.† According to Roberts, leaders have the ability†¦show more content†¦This change brought by my realizations also helped me at work. I used to be a Shift Manager at a fast-food restaurant, and people know how stressful it can get working at a fast-food restaurant. Before, I used to be motivated , frankly, by money, and I did not take my job too seriously, but ever since my experience, I started to work hard for the money I am earning. If I used to be stressed out during peak hours, which also affect my employees’ performance, I became more positive and motivate my employees to do their job well rather than getting mad at them when they do something wrong. My family and the situation they are in helped me grow as an individual but also as a leader. Roberts claims that the different parts of a person’s identity, such as their work roles, background, hobbies, etc., are integrated in enriching ways. Immigrants in Canada can attest to this. Canada is a diverse country with a lot of immigrants coming in from different countries with different background and culture. Despite of this, immigrants contribute to the workforce in Canada and they can apply what they know, even though they are from different countries, to their work. The shortage of skilled workers in Canada is filled in by immigrants and their different opinions and views help business people make important decisions. The different characteristics and own experiences of people can help shape the work they do and havingShow MoreRelatedHow Linguistic Ethnographers Blommaert And. Borba Conceptualize Ethnographic Research?867 Words   |  4 PagesBourdieu the Ethnographer – The ethnographic Grounding of Habitus and Voice. The Translator # 11 (2) 219-236. At www.academia.edu Borba, R. (2015) How an individual becomes a subject. Discourse, interaction subjectification at a Brazilian gender identity clinic. Working Papers in Urban Language Literacies #163. At www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc Bourdieu, P. (1972) Esquisse d’une thà ©orie de la pratique prà ©cedà © de Trois à ©tudes d’à ©thnologie kabile. Paris: Seuil Bourdieu, P. 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