Theory and practice of personnel management - Shchekin GV

20. Materials for self-evaluation of managerial work

20.1. The test "The ability to organize their work"

In accordance with the key to the test, select only one answer option.

1. Do you have the main, main goals in life, to achieve which you aspire?

A. I have such goals.

B. Do you need to have any goals? After all, life is so changeable ...

B. I have the main goals, and I subordinate my life to their achievement.

G. I have goals, but my activities contribute little to their achievement.

2. Do you draw up a work plan, cases for a week, using a weekly journal, spetsloknot, etc.

A. Yes. B. No.

B. I can not say "yes" or "no", since I schedule the main cases in my head, and the plan for the current day is in the head or on a piece of paper.

G. I tried to make a plan using the weekly, but I realized that it does not give anything.

D. Making plans is only a game of adults in organization.

3. Do you read yourself for not meeting the target for a week, for a day?

A. I read in cases when I see my guilt, laziness or slowness.

B. I report, regardless of any subjective or objective reasons.

B. Now and so everyone scolds each other, why else should you chide yourself?

G. I adhere to this principle: what I managed to do today - it's good, but I could not do it - maybe some other time.

4. How do you conduct your notebook with phone numbers of business people, acquaintances, relatives, friends, etc.?

A. I am the owner (owner) of my notebook: I want to, I keep records of phone numbers, names, names. If you need someone's phone number, then I'll find it.

B. Often I change notebooks with phone records, as I mercilessly "exploit" them. At the correspondence of phones I try to do everything "on science", however with further use I again get off to an arbitrary record.

B. I write down the telephone, surname, name, "name of mood", I think that the phone number, last name, first name, patronymic would be recorded, and on which page it is written, directly or crookedly, it does not really matter.

D. Using the conventional system - in accordance with the alphabet, I write down the name, first name, patronymic, phone number, and if necessary, additional information (address, place of work, position).

5. You are surrounded by various things that you often use. What are your principles of arrangement of things?

A. Every thing lies where it wants.

B. I adhere to the principle: every thing has its place.

B. Periodically I bring order in the arrangement of things, objects. Then I put them wherever I have to not load my head with "location." After a while, I put things in order again, and so on.

G. I think that this issue has nothing to do with self-organization.

6. Can you say at the end of the day where, how much and for what reasons did you have to waste time in vain?

A. I can say about the lost time.

B. I can only say about the place where time was wasted.

B. If time was wasted in money, then I would consider it.

G. I always know well where, how much and why time was wasted.

D. Not only I can well imagine where, how much and why time was lost, but I also seek methods of reducing losses in the same places or situations.

7. What are your actions when, at a meeting, at a meeting, a transfusion from empty to empty begins?

A. I propose to pay attention to the essence of the question.

B. Any meeting or meeting is a combination of both "full" and "empty". When the "empty" comes, then you wait for the "complete" one. When the "full" band passes, you get a little tired and to discharge ... you wait for "empty". In this alternation, a meeting or meeting takes place. And there's nothing you can do about it.

8. I plunge into "nothingness".

G. I start to do those things that I took with me in the calculation of "transfusion."

8. Suppose that you have to make a report. Will you pay attention not only to the contents of the report, but also to its duration?

A. I will pay the most serious attention to the contents of the report. I think that the duration should be determined only approximately. If the report is interesting, it will always give time to finish it.

B. I pay equal attention to the content and duration of the report, as well as its options, depending on the time.

9. Do you try to use literally every minute to fulfill your plans?

A. I try, but not always it turns out due to personal reasons (decline of strength, mood, etc.).

B. I do not strive for this, because I think that you do not need to be petty in regard to time.

B. Why strive if time still does not overtake. G. I try and try in spite of everything.

10. What is the system for recording commissions, tasks and requests you use?

A. I write down in my weekly journal what to do and by what date.

B. I fix in my weekly journal the most important assignments, requests, tasks. "Trifles" I try to remember. If I forget about them, I do not consider this a drawback.

B. I try to remember assignments, assignments and requests, since it trains memory. However, I must admit that memory often fails me.

G. I adhere to the principle of "reverse memory": let him remember the instructions and assignments of the one who gives them. If the commission is necessary, then they will not forget about it and will call me for urgent execution.

11. How accurate are you at business meetings, when you attend meetings, meetings, meetings?

A. I come earlier for 5 - 7 minutes.

B. I arrive on time: at the beginning of the meeting, meeting or meeting.

B. As a rule, I'm late.

G. I am always late, although I try to come earlier or on time. D. If the scientific-popular manual "How not to be late" was published, then I probably learned (learned) not to be late.

12. What importance do you attach to the timeliness of the fulfillment of tasks, assignments, requests?

A. I believe that timeliness of implementation is one of the most important indicators of my ability to work, it is a kind of triumph of organization. However, something I do not always manage to do on time.

B. Timeliness of execution is an animal that can bite just when the task is completed. It is better to tighten the task for a while.

Q. I prefer to talk less about timeliness, but to carry out tasks and assignments on time.

D. Timely execution of a task or an assignment is the right chance to get a new one. Performance is always punished in a peculiar way.

13. Suppose you have promised to do something or in some way help another person. But the circumstances have changed in such a way that it is rather difficult to fulfill the promised. How will you behave?

A. I will inform a person about a change in circumstances and about the inability to fulfill the promised.

B. I will try to tell the person that the circumstances have changed and the fulfillment of the promise is difficult. At the same time I will say that one should not lose hope for the promised.

B. I will try to do what I promised. If I do it - well, if I do not do it - it does not hurt either, because I rarely keep my promises.

G. I will not tell anyone anything. I will do what I promised at all costs.

The key to the test

Evaluation of results

You scored from 72 to 78 points. You are an organized person. The only thing that you can advise: do not stop at the reached level, develop further self-organization. Do not you think that you have reached the limit. The organization, unlike nature, gives the greatest effect to those who consider its resources inexhaustible.

You scored from 63 to 71 points. You consider the organization an integral part of the work. This gives you an undoubted advantage over those people who call the organization "under arms" in case of emergency. But you should take a closer look at self-organization, improve it.

You scored less than 63 points. Your way of life, your environment taught you to be something organized. Organizationality is manifested in your actions, then disappears. This is a sign of a lack of a clear system of self-organization. There are objective organizational laws and principles. Try to analyze your actions, time expenses, technique of work. You will see what you do not suspect at the moment. To become an organized person, you need to overcome yourself, you need to have the will and perseverance.