4.1.1 Professional development and goal alignment

No.

Question

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2

3

4

1

I would leave for a new company rather than complete the same tasks and duties for years

2

It is important for me to become expert in specialised tasks or functional areas

3

Being free froorganisation restrictions is important to me

4

I like a career where you can see how your work affects others

5

A career with a variety of assignments and work projects is important to me

6

I believe my competence will lead to a position in senior management

7

I like to be identified with a particular organisation and the accompanying prestige

8  

I would prefer to remain in my present locality rather than move because of promotion

9

Developing my skills by addressing new or changed circumstances is important to me

10 

I like to encounter new problems and solve the

11   

I know my capabilities are such that I can never be committed to a specific area of expertise or company

12  

I enjoy an endless variety of challenges

13   

It is important to me to be identified with a powerful and prestigious employer

14   

I anot motivated by the idea of participating in many areas of work

15   

I aexcited by the variety of means and ways to lead and manage people

16   

I would gladly stabilise my life by sacrificing some autonomy

17   

It is important that my job provides me with security, benefits and a good retirement

18   

I want to be acknowledged for my skills and expertise

19   

I amotivated by being involved in all aspects of the services and products we deliver

20   

I want to be identified by my organisation and my job

21   

Using my skills and talents for an important cause is important to me

22   

Being recognised by my title is important to me

23   

I prefer work that allows the freedoto set routines and procedures that enable me to produce quality outcomes

24   

I prefer a career with certainty

25   

Achieving a general management position is important to me

26   

I like to be in an occupation with long-teremployment prospects

27   

I would accept a senior position only if it is in my area of expertise

28   

Location of work is more important than a new job or promotion

29   

Accumulating a personal fortune proves to myself and others that I acompetent in my job

30   

I want a position that uses my technical as well as my interpersonal competencies

31   

I have been motivated throughout my work life by jobs that fully employ my knowledge and skills

32   

Creating or delivering quality products and services is important to me

33   

I prefer to remain in my area of competency rather than being promoted out of my area of expertise

34   

I don't like being restricted by an organisation or the business world

35   

Helping others change through my efforts is important to me

36   

My main concern is to secure a stable future

37   

I would not like to be recognised for poor quality work

38   

My career should build on a firbase of my recognised expertise

39   

Working with people participatively to make the right decisions for that situation is important to me

40   

It is important to me that others look to me as a model for their own careers