Personal Attributes and Professionalism
3 Employer Expectations
Your pays you to do a job. The job involves performing the work you have been hired to do, whether it is cleaning, serving food, baking bread, or cooking on the line for a customer. Your employer expects you to act professionally and exhibit certain behaviours. Your job depends on your ability to assist your employer to make money. If the business loses money, your job may disappear. At the top of their list of expectations, most employers would include commitment, enthusiasm, dependability, honesty, and a willingness to learn and accept feedback. Table 1 details what is meant by these characteristics, which together would be considered .
Expectation | Do’s | Don’ts |
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Commitment |
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Enthusiasm |
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Dependability |
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Honesty |
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Willingness to Learn |
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Accept Feedback |
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A) A person who has or had control or direction of an employee.
B) A person who is or was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the employment of an employee.
To act in a professional manner according to set standards.