Organizational Behaviour

Individual Assignment-1
MBA-FT 2021-2023

Autobiography- Self Analysis Report

Submitted to – Prof. Nina Muncherji

Submitted by – Tanuj Bohra
Roll no – 211149
Division- B
Autobiography-
My name is Tanuj Bohra. I was born in Beawar, Rajasthan on 20th June 2000.
However, the city where I lived all my life till now is Jaipur, Rajasthan. My
father is a businessman and my mother is a housewife. I have an elder brother
who is three years older than me. These are the basic details about me. I will be
breaking my life journey till now into three parts and the fourth point relates to
my desires about the future.

1. Infancy and early childhood

2. School life
3. College life
4. Desires about future

1.Infancy and early childhood –

It is very difficult for any person to remember much about this phase of life.
Most of the things that we come to know about this phase is through our family
members. I too will be writing about this phase of my life on the basis of the
things I have listened about myself from my parents and grandparents. I will be
giving them appropriate headings and then will explain them.

Highly introvert

In this phase, I was not a person who used to like meeting many people or play
with many people. I was a child who always used to enjoy my parents’
company only. My mom used to tell me many a time that whenever she used to
take me outside with her and if she gives me to someone for a minute or two, I
used to start crying. I am one among those children who look happy only in the
hands of their parents and the moment someone takes them to play or even
assist their parents, they start crying. This was one of a key character trait of
mine during my infancy and early childhood days and this even has an impact
on me in a way or other till now, which I will further disclose in this
autobiography of mine. I was highly introvert and very less sociable person in
my childhood.

Fear of doctor and especially syringes

Now, I come to another thing about this phase that was fear of doctors and
syringes. I have listened to it from my parents and also have blur memories
about it, which might be because of the high intensity of this phobia of mine
during my early stage of life. I used to start crying the moment I used to enter a
doctor’s clinic. Even if my parents have taken me to doctors’ clinics along with
them not for consulting about me but to consult about their problem, then also I
used to start crying seeing that person in the white coat. My mom used to tell
me that during the time of admission in the playgroup, the school asked about
my blood group report, so she took me to a doctor for my blood testing. She
alone took me to the hospital and she still sometimes laugh and tell me that I
made her ran all around the hospital for almost 5-10 minutes due to the fear of
syringe. Though that fear might have diluted a bit now, but still my heart starts
pounding on visiting a doctor.

Thumbsucker

I used to suck my thumb a lot during my early days. Though this is a very
common habit of children but the reason why I am putting it here is because of
the funny ways my mom tried to stop this habit of mine. I remember my mom
saying that she tried neem paste to turmeric paste to chili paste but failed to stop
this habit of mine. She even once tied both my hands to stop it but was not able
to succeed. But one day to her surprise I stopped doing that on my own. I don’t
know why I did that and even she doesn’t know that why I stopped doing that.

Animal and Insect lover

This might sound a little strange but what I had heard from my parents was that
during my infancy, I was neither afraid of any kind of animal nor insect.
Whenever I used to see any animal or insect, I used to try to go towards it and
catch hold of it. Even I was not afraid of animals like a dog. We had a dog at
that time and he was very bulky in size. As I have heard that my parents used to
fear rather than me when I used to play with the dog. I used to climb on him and
even sometimes used to put my hand in his mouth.
Writing about it today I don’t know from where I had gathered such courage to
put my hand in a dog’s mouth. That pet was with us only till I was three or four
and after that, we never had a pet. On the contrary now I have evolved as a
person who has a high degree of fear of animals and insects. It makes me feel
no shame to disclose here that I have a great fear of lizards and other small
insects. I don’t know how the personality of a person changes over time but has
changed for me 180 degrees in this case.

2. School life-

Now, here the second phase of my life starts. Here, I will be including some of
the key instances of my school life till grade twelfth. I have very little glimpses
of the early years of my schooling but in the later years like after sixth or
seventh class, I remember many a thing. So, let’s just start with the early years
of schooling.
I don’t know what heading to give to this event but in my UKG or LKG class, I
developed a habit of throwing the food that my mother use to give in the
dustbin. I still remember this thing maybe because of the scolding I had got
when I was caught doing it. I don’t know why I used to do that, maybe because
I don’t like my mother’s food at that time or maybe I might be doing it out of
some agitation with my parents. The event I remember clearly but not the
intention or thinking behind it.

In my school till prep, we had washrooms outside the main building and the
playing area used to come in between. I remember that I used to go out with the
excuse of going to the washroom and used to bunk the whole class playing. And
to the straight surprise, I had never bunked a class after the fifth or sixth class. I
used to bunk classes when I was such small and when I grew, I fear bunking
classes. It was quite opposite to most of the other people whose tendency of
bunking classes increases with the increase in age. In my case, it was the
opposite.

Till third standard, I was very poor in academics and rarely had an interest in it.
I used to spend most of my time playing and watching tv. My elder brother was
a topper at that time. I used to hear a lot of scolding from my parents regarding
my poor results. Situations turned such worst that I came on the verge of failing.
My parents hired a personal tuition teacher for me. It was the first time I was to
deal with a tuition teacher. I don’t know what magic that tuition teacher had
done and I started improving on my scores. My interest in academics improved
over time and I topped my class for the first time in my life in either fifth or
sixth grade. In these three years of my life from third grade to sixth grade, I
moved from around a meagre 40-50 percent to 90+ percent. Once I became a
topper of the class, academics became a kind of passion for me, or maybe the
recognition that I got from my family members and relatives, it made me come
first in class and sometimes school in most grades from sixth onwards. Coming
first became a kind of passion for me rather than knowledge and experience of
school life. I was running endlessly towards marks. I was cramming up things
rather than understanding them. I still remember the way I used to cram Social
Studies subjects, Science and even sometimes Mathematics and English.

When my cousins and friends started calling me a Ratu Totta (one who crams
up things like a parrot), self-doubt developed in me towards my abilities. When
all this become too much, knowledge became a key aspect for me rather than
marks. I set a goal for myself that by keeping Social Science (History,
Geography, Civics, and Economics) apart I will never cram things into any
subject. This was a decision that I took in 8th grade. I remember it clearly
because my marks felt drastically in class 9th due to this. This was the first time
after 6th grade that I was not on the toppers list. It was a very hard and strong
move to change the method of learning altogether as I would have easily scored
marks if I would have crammed. My score in class 9th was not that good but I
enjoyed a different level of happiness on scoring less but actual marks that I
deserved. I forgot to mention that I had left tuitions that I started in third grade,
in sixth grade. From then on, I was studying or rather cramming on my own.
But seeing a sudden fall in marks in grade 9th and a board class next year I
again joined tuition classes. But this time joining tuition classes was my own
choice as I was going through a major change in my learning strategy. I won’t
deny that my parent's call was the same as their ward who was scoring such
high marks and suddenly felled from the topper list. This time tuition was very
important to me and I too again want to taste success but this time through the
right means. Also, the tuition teacher I got was one of the best teacher I had
studied from. The way of her teaching suited me perfectly and my own hard
work to gather knowledge made me score 10 CGPA in class 10th. This time the
worth of success was very important for me. The people around me still were
saying the same thing that they have just stopped for a year or year and a half
but this time their words didn’t bother me as in my heart I knew that I am not
the person who they are referring to.

All these years when I was just blindly running behind marks, I missed a very
important aspect of school life that is participation in extracurricular activities. I
had a limited number of friends and my participation in sports was too close to
negligible. Because of this, I still carried stage fear and confidence issues when
talking to strange people. I decided to improve this when I was in class eleventh
and it cannot be later than this when I can start working on that angle as well.
My participation in school events increased in class eleventh. It was very tough
though as being a topper in academics people think that you are good at
everything. I remember at times I used to forget things on the stage and use to
start stammering. The faces of classmates and my schoolmates laughing used to
hurt me a lot but I had only one thing in mind that if it’s not today then it’s
never. But it’s easy said than done. At times I used to develop a high level of
anxiety overthinking what will my classmates think if I do a blunder on the
stage. What if I would forget things on stage. All these things lead to the
building of anxiety in me at times.

3. College life-

My undergraduate college life was not the college life that most of the students
think a college life to be. I decided to do a Chartered Accountancy course after
class 12th, so I took admission in a college where attendance was not very
necessary. Most of the students in the college were doing CA or other
professional courses and were just attending the college for the sake of a degree.
Even I was doing the same. Most of the time of my day (approximately eight to
ten hours a day used to go in CA coaching). The remaining hours used to go in
homework and other things. I hardly used to get time for my college-related
things. There have been instances where I had given college final exams just
studying a day or two.

At that phase of my life becoming a Chartered Accountant was the sole goal of
my life. I was burning my midnight oil working on it. That hard work and
burning of midnight oil paid me at my result of CA Foundation. I got All India
Rank 47th in CA Foundation.

Just after two days after completion of my CA Foundation exams, I started my

CA intermediate preparation. In the starting, everything was going smoothly. I
was attending my lectures at time and doing all the things to be ready for my
intermediate exams. My paper was in November and my mock paper started in
July. I failed in my first mock paper; it broke my confidence a bit. Being a
topper in school days and even had got All India Rank in CA foundation, I had
never faced failure in my life. I had been on the verge of failing in my early
school days but had never failed. It was not easy for me to face my first failure.
Then comes the second mock test where I just got one mark more than what
was required to pass. It broke my confidence further and then the chain of
failures started. The more the mocks I was failing, more the confidence of mine
was broking. With every failure of mine, my interest in Chartered Accountancy
was decreasing. Self-doubt was increasing and the level of panic and phobia of
exams was increasing day by day the exams were getting closer. It was October
and my exams were in November. I was giving my final mocks in October. I
had hardly passed any mock paper that I have given in the past. I failed in some
papers of final mocks also. I was at that phase of my life where I was at the
bottommost juncture. In the month of October, seeing my mock results I went
into depression. It was not like I suddenly went into depression, that cycle
started with the first failure that I faced and kept on increasing after that. I was
not able to concentrate on my studies and it was appearing to me that I have
forgotten all whatever I have learned so far in CA Intermediate. I was not
talking to anyone, not getting out of home, and used to overthink about what
would now happen in my life. My confidence broke to such a limit and anxiety
and panic about exams increased so much that I quit the plan of giving exams.
Also, over this period my interest in doing CA decreased very much. I told my
parents that now I cannot do CA anymore and it was a shock for them. Though
from my mock results and my behavior they knew something is not right. My
father told me only one thing that it was your decision to do CA and we never
forced you for anything. If you want to quit CA that’s okay but don’t make a
decision that you feel guilty or regret about in the future. He said that we are
with you in your decision. His words were a huge motivator for me. Though I
left CA in the end but that experience made me recognize the importance of
family in hard times.

People used to make fun of me that despite getting an All-India Rank in CA

Foundation you are leaving CA without giving exams. All these might have
made me go deeper into my depression but the role my family played and how
they supported me made me come out of depression.
I decided to do MBA in January 2020 and started preparing for CAT. My
family supported my decision and also made me realize that life will not give
you many chances, so decide whatever you want to do very consciously now.
And they keep me motivated all through my CAT journey and I scored a decent
score of 85.36 percentile in CAT. With this result that confidence again started
building up. The self-doubt that I have created that I am nothing started fading.
Also, during the CAT journey, I realized the mistakes that I have made in my
CA journey. The panic that I build on failure, the lack of understanding that life
is not always an upward moving graph, the manner in which I could have
handled the society pressure, I realized them. The CA episode of my life broke
me initially but the way my family handled the situation and with god’s grace I
was able to bounce back and bounce back becoming tougher and stronger.
Even today sometimes people ask me that whether I regret the decision that I
had taken of leaving CA. I am quite assured that whatever happened was my
own decision and it made me a better version of myself. I understood that life is
not easy and you need to continue fighting. Still, I am fighting with many issues
like phobia of public speaking, lack of confidence, etc but have learned that
persistence is the key to success.
After CAT, I gave interviews of various colleges and finally decided to join The
Institute of Management, Nirma University.

4. Desires about Future-

Education-

I am doing MBA and intend to choose Finance as a majors and marketing as a

minor as far as specialization is concerned.
After completion of MBA, another course that I desire to do is CFA. I have an
interest in portfolio management and MBA finance will help me in that and
CFA will further enhance my catch hold of that area.
Apart from this formal education, life is a book in itself and is full of teachings.
I desire to keep learning all my life from the experiences of life, from the
mistakes I make, and desire to never make a mistake twice.
Work –

Initially, after MBA, I want to get corporate experience and thus do a job. Being
a fresher, I want to enhance my practical knowledge and build my experience.
This is my short-term plan down the line. In the long run, I always wanted to
have some business of my own. I want to be my own boss and work for myself
instead of providing services to others. Also, I desire to work till 55 to 60 years
of my age. After that, I want to be part of various social groups and would like
to work for society.

Marriage-

Every parent has a certain dream about their children and one of them is the
marriage of the children. My parents too have such a dream and I will fulfill it. I
desire to get married once I attain a certain level of financial security and
become independent in terms of finance. Also, this is one of the most crucial
decisions of life so I want to become a little more mature before it and desire to
get married not before 27 or 28 years of age. Maturity is very important here
because if you are not able to manage yourself properly then how would you be
able to take responsibility of someone else.
Every man has an imagination of a dream girl in mind and heart with whom he
wants to spend his entire life. I too have my own definition of my dream girl. I
desire for a girl with whom I forget about the sense of time. Even a day spent
with her should look like an hour. My dream girl may not be the most beautiful,
she may not be the perfect one but she should be the one with whom I forget
about all my tensions. Though I know that I have gone very imaginative in the
description of my dream girl but I believe that I will find the one.

Spiritual growth-

I want to taste the ultimate pleasure of life and spirituality is the path to it. I
want to grow spiritually, want to learn more about my religion, follow the
practices that I have seen my parents and grandparents do. I follow JAINISM
and I want to learn more about it and actually follow the principles of non-
attachment, non-violence, truth, non-stealing in my life. Though I follow them
but they have a very deeper meaning, that I want to understand and practice. I
desire to connect with my soul and achieve a feeling of satisfaction in life.
Travel-

I want to explore the world, meet people from different regions and
backgrounds and learn about their culture, traditions, practices, beliefs, etc. I
want to explore the heights of Kashmir, the beauty of East India, beaches of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the valleys of Switzerland, the cold of
Antarctica, and many more. I don’t know how many of these places I would be
able to visit but these are some of the dream places I want to visit.

Family-

I want to spend a considerable part of my life with my family. I want to be part

of small-big moments of happiness of my parents, I want to take care of them to
the utmost possible limit and even more than that. There is a constant fear in
every person that with the growth of his/her age, the age of his/her parents and
dear ones is also increasing. We have this gift of life for a limited period and the
earlier we understand it, the better it would be. I know that life is for a limited
period of time, so I want to spend a considerable amount of my life with my
family and friends and don’t want to miss out on these precious relations.

Fitness –

Mental and bodily fitness is very much required to lead a happy life. I want to
remain independent in doing my basic stuff all my life, even in the last stages of
life. I don’t want to become a burden on someone. In order to achieve this, I
need to remain fit both mentally and physically. So, I desire to and will keep a
close look on my health all my life. Also, before taking care of others one
himself needs to be fit and healthy, thus health is the real wealth.

These were certain desires of mine regarding the future. Some of them might
look very imaginative, some very general, some too emotional, etc. I desire to
achieve them and move them from the desired part of my autobiography to the
experienced and achieved part of my autobiography.

Self Analysis Report

Big Five Personality Traits
1. Adjustment – High score in this trait refers to a weak adjustment
and a low score refers to strong adjustment.

My score Group Average Range

40 50.09 25-73

I have scored less than the group average and is more towards resilient
kind of personality. A person is said to be resilient if he is able to bounce
back from a hard fall. After leaving CA, I was at the bottommost juncture
of my life. Everything was looking blur at that time. However, I bounced
back soon and scored a decent score in CAT. This shows the resilient
personality of mine. Also, people showing high adjustment are guilt free.
I had learnt from my mistakes in the life but feel less guilty about making
them. I believe that, it was at that moment one does something wrong,
being guilty will just make one more depressed. Rather, one should just
learn and try not to repeat a mistake.
I see being resilient, guilt free or strong on adjustment as a positive trait
and am satisfied with the score and would like to maintain it in the future.

2.Sociability- High score in this trait suggests that a person is a

social person whereas a low score signifies a less social person.

My score Group Average Range

52 48.47 33-62

In sociability, I belong to ambivert people’s category. As I mentioned in

the autobiography that I have been an introvert person during my
schooldays and wanted to change that trait to being social and
comfortable with others. I tried improving on it and had slowly improved.
The level of comfort with new people has increased in my case,
interactions with people had increased, no of people I know have
increased.
I am partly satisfied from this score of mine. I want to improve on it as
the world today requires one to communicate with as many people as one
can and learn from their experiences. One cannot survive in isolation.
Also, the research suggests that extroverts tend to be higher performers
than introverts in most jobs.

3.Openness – Here high score signifies high degree of openness

of a person whereas low score reflects to low openness.

My score Group Average Range

45 47.09 28-62

I have scored at par with the group but in my opinion, I need to improve
in terms of openness. In this world of competition, one needs to get out of
his comfort zone and become creative to be successful. Also, the
vulnerability of things requires one to change quickly and not just remain
rigid to his/her beliefs. In my autobiography, I have mentioned that in
class 9th, I changed my method of studying, thus, got out of my comfort
zone and accepted the challenge. This justifies my openness to experience
score.

4.Agreeableness- Low score suggests low Agreeableness and high

score suggests high agreeableness.

My score Group Average Range

55 52.69 24-71

I fell in the negotiator category as far as agreeableness is concerned. One

needs to find the right balance between the personal interest and group
interest. Both needs to be achieved. A negotiator is the one who is able to
find the right balance between the two. Also, the world we live in is not
an ideal world. We need to keep a balance between totally trusting and
being sceptical of others. High trusting or high scepticism can bring bad
results.
5.Conscientiousness- Low score means low conscientiousness and
high score means high conscientiousness.

My score Group Average Range

63 53.22 38-65
I fell in the group of people with very high conscientiousness. People
with high conscientiousness are dependable, organized, disciplined
and stubborn. It’s good to be organized and disciplined but at times
one should also enjoy things out and be a little experimental. Being
highly disciplined and organized can sometimes become monotonous
and thus become counterproductive.
In my CA journey I was highly disciplined and used to avoid events
apart from it to focus just on studies. However, it turned out to be
counterproductive for me as I was studying quantity of hours but the
quality was not good. To break the monotony, it sometime is good to
break discipline and be experimental and fun loving.
I want to work on reducing this score to a little and bring it close to
group average.

Personality Scores-

1. Depression-

My Score Group Average Range

46 38.72 21-59
I have been through a phase of depression when my Chartered
Accountancy journey was not on track. I think being depressed reduces
your chances of fighting with the situation and bouncing back. It makes
you see dark even in light and corrupts your thinking process. It’s very
hard to come out of depression completely. Having overcome my peak
depression, still my score is high. This shows how tough it is to come out
of depression. One should keep looking for the signals of depression and
try to solve the problem causing depression at early stages only.
I think my level of depression is a little high. I need to work on it and
should try to bring it around group average. Also, in me I think
depression is more because of endogenous factors rather than exogenous
factors. I need to stop comparing myself to other people and accept that I
will always find a person better than me in some field and instead of
comparing him to me I should learn from him and should try to give my
hundred percent.

2. Type A Behaviour-

My Score Group Average Range

10 9.32 4-16

Type A personalities are aggressive and highly competitive. They are

more concerned about the quantity than the quality. I believe in my
schooldays till class ninth I was a high at type A personality. I was more
concerned about marks at that time rather than the knowledge and was
highly competitive for marks. I think I am moving in the right direction
and has reduced my score a bit but still I need to reduce it and become a
balanced kind of personality.
Also, sometimes I cut people in between when they are saying something
and become impatient. I think I need to improve in it and become a little
calm and less aggressive.

3. Anxiety-

My Score Group Average Range

37 33.5 20-47

My anxiety score is quite high. I used to feel high level of anxiety when I
used to do something in front of a large number of people. Also, I used to
overthink about what other people think about me. Though that anxiety
that I used to feel in the past have reduced overtime but still it is quite
high. I need to work upon it as anxiety just makes you nervous and make
you perform poor than what you would have otherwise.

4. Anger S-

My Score Group Average Range

15 23.5 15-39

Anger S is about the level of anger at a particular time. The time at which
I filled the questionnaire the results of which are reflected above, I was
quite calm and it got reflected in my score. Anger S keeps changing from
time to time and is not something which remains constant.

5. Anger T-

My Score Group Average Range

29 28.41 18-44
Anger trait shows the level of anger of a person in general. My score is a
little on the higher side. Though, it is close to group average but still I
want it to be on a little lower level as anger has no benefit associated to it.
It can be harmful for both mental and physical health. Also, I had never
been extremely angry in my entire life. My anger is like for a moment
and fades away soon but still I need to work and improve upon that short-
lived anger also.

6. Locus of Control-

My Score Group Average Range

10 11.22 5-20

Higher the score of Locus of Control means more internal you are and
vice versa. My score reflects that I have an external locus of control.
Though, it is close to group average, but still, it reflects that I believe that
things happen purely by chance or because of the external factors beyond
one’s control. I agree that there is a luck factor their but still I think I need
 to become quite internal in terms of locus of control and should have
more faith in hard work than pure luck.

FIRO-B
FIRO-B stands for Fundamental Interpersonal Relation Orientation Behaviour
There are three core elements to it –

1. Inclusion

2. Control

3. Openness

These get further divided into two ways –

1. Based on expressed and received.
2. Based on perceived and wanted.

Trait My Score Group Average Range

1 (a) 6 5.17 0-9
1 (b) 6 6.16 1-9
2 (a) 8 4.78 0-9
2 (b) 2 6.19 0-9
3 (a) 5 3.56 0-9
3 (b) 5 4.94 0-9
4 (a) 6 4.87 1-9
4 (b) 3 3 0-9
5 (a) 2 4.12 0-9
5 (b) 5 4.74 0-9
6 (a) 7 6.43 0-9
6 (b) 4 7.06 0-9
 PERCEIVED (P) WANTED (W) DIFFERENCE
Inclusion Control Openness Inclusion Control Openness Inclusion Control Openness
Expressed
6 5 2 6 5 5 0 0 -3
(E)
Received (R) 8 6 7 2 3 4 6 3 3

Analysis of the score-

1. PEI and WEI

Perceived expressed inclusion refers to how much one includes people. Wanted
expressed inclusion refers to how much one wants to include people.
The difference between PEI and WEI is zero in my case. This means that my
perceived and wanted expressed inclusion is the same. It means that the degree
to which I include people is the same as the degree I want to include people.
Thus, it is an ideal condition.

2. PEC and WEC-

Perceived expressed control refers to the degree of control and influence one
has on others.
Wanted expressed control refers to the degree of control and influence one
wants over others.
In my case, the difference between PEC and WEC is zero. It means that the
degree to which I want to control or influence people is the same as the control I
am exercising presently. I am satisfied with the control I have over others and I
don’t want more than that.

3. PEO and WEO-

Perceived expressed openness refers to the degree one is open with others.
Wanted expressed openness refers to the degree to which one wants to open
with others.
In my case, the difference between PEO and WEO is -3. This means that I want
to open more with people than the level I am opening with them currently.

4. PRI and WRI-

Perceived received inclusion refers to the degree to which a person is included
by others.
Wanted received inclusion refers to the degree to which one wanted to be
included by others.
In my case, the difference between PRI and WRI is 6. It means that I want
others to include me less as compared to the degree to which they are including
me now. Too much inclusion from others is not always good. Sometimes it
affects the relationship negatively. I would work towards making a distance
from those people from whom I am receiving too much inclusion and try to
make the situation ideal that is when perceived is equal to wanted.

5. PRC and WRC-

Perceived received control refers to the degree to which one is controlled and
influenced by others.
Wanted received control refers to the degree one wants to be controlled and
influenced by others.
In my case, the difference between PRC and WRC is 3. It means that I want less
control from others than I receive. The degree of influence and control I receive
from others is more than what is desired or wanted by me.

6. PRO and WRO-

Perceived received openness refers to the degree other people are open with a
person.
Wanted received openness refers to the degree to which a person wants others
to open with him/her.
In my case, the difference between PRO and WRO is 3. It means that I want
people to be less open with me than they are presently.

Motivation –

SR.No Type of Motivation My Score Class Avg. Class Range

1 Achievement 21 19.17 12-25
2 Affiliation 15 18.36 11-25
3 Aggression 11 11.28 4-17
4 Extension 20 19.33 10-25
5 Dependence 17 18.54 13-25
6 Control 15 16.66 9-24

1. Achievement –
My score in achievement is 21. It is almost at par with the group score. My
score reflects that I am achievement-oriented, prefers competition, solve
problems on my own and is ready to take a moderate risk to achieve things.
Also, as I have mentioned in my autobiography that from my school days only,
I have been highly competitive and thus it justifies my score. I see it as a
positive trait and desire to maintain my scores in the future also.
 2. Affiliation-
My score in affiliation is 15 which is a little less than the group average.
Affiliation refers to the importance of warm, friendly relations in a life of a
person and such people want to achieve their tasks honoring this relation and
also, they are good team players. In my opinion, my score is low in terms of
affiliation. As I mentioned in my autobiography that I used to lack confidence
talking to strangers initially and developed an ambivert kind of personality
slowly over time, this score is justified. I need to improve on this by developing
warm and affectionate relations with other people and being good to them.
Improving this score will help me in improving my team working skills.

3. Aggression –
My score in aggression is 11 which is almost equal to the team average. An
aggressive person often loses control of himself, talks loud and may also enter
into fights with others. He wants to dominate others and is very argumentative.
As I mentioned in my autobiography that in my school days, I always wanted to
come first in class, no matter the way I am using to winning, this has made me a
little aggressive personality. Thus, the score is justified. In my opinion,
aggression is a bad trait and I think I need to improve on this score.

4. Extension
My score is 20 in extension almost equal to the group average. Extension
refers to the degree to which a person is ready to help others keeping his
personal goals apart. I always love to help people selflessly. It gives me eternal
happiness and satisfaction in helping others. This got reflected in my score
and I want to increase it further. Also, in my autobiography, I have mentioned
my desire to join various social groups and work for the welfare and
betterment of society which justifies the score.

5. Dependence-
My score in dependence is 17 which is good in comparison to the group
average. As I mentioned in the autobiography that I have always took my
decision on my own. The decision to do CA, decision of leaving it, the decision
of doing MBA, etc justifies that I am independent and justifies my score of
dependence.
One cannot depend on others for each and every decision of his/her life and also
cannot expect guidance from others all the time. One needs to carve his way and
belief in one’s own decisions. I see dependence as not a positive trait and want
to become more independent over time.
 6. Control-
My score in control is 15 which is less in comparison to the group average.
Control is not always a negative trait and does not refer to being dominant over
others. Control here refers to a person with high skills who tries to solve
problems in the organization, take part in decision making, and is highly
regarded in the organization.
I feel my score in control is low and I need to improve on this by improving my
knowledge, decision-making skills, and problem-solving skills.

Conclusion-
This assignment was not like a typical assignment. It made me bring my life to
pages. It made me analyze myself. When one does something in life, he can
justify it in his mind that he was right. However, when one writes about it and
then tries to justify it, that gives him the real picture of whether he was right or
not. This is because when someone writes he tries to think what people will
think about him on reading that and thus analyze a situation from the readers
perspective which gives him the real picture of himself.
With the help of this assignment, I got to know about my strengths and
weaknesses in a better way. The various questionnaires that were asked to be
filled helped me identifying myself in a better way. Also, it made me aware of
the areas where I need to improve to be a better version of myself.
Also, this was the first assignment in my MBA journey where instead of being
concerned about plagiarism, correctness, logic, accuracy, I was more concerned
about being honest. In this particular assignment, I felt like a movie of my entire
life journey was playing in my mind and I was putting it in words.
When the assignment got completed and I was relooking at it, I found that I
have written about certain things to a very deep level and also make repetition
of some events. However, I didn’t remove it as I think it reflects the intensity of
that particular event in my life.
At last, I would say that instead of being a typical assignment it was more of a
self-awareness and self-improvement exercise where I got a chance to reflect on
my entire life, know about my weakness and strengths, recognize and accept my
wrong and right doings, get a reflection of my personality and to think upon the
ways I can improve myself.
Thank you