HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN
LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

Subject: Term Paper Topic:
Power of positive attitudes in work

Name: Nguyễn Chí Thành Công Student’s number: Class : Lecturer's name:

HO CHI MINH City, April 2012

Topic : Power of positive working attitudes

I. Introduction :

* Definition of attitude * Four main attitudes help people get success in their work : identifying clearly future goals and future job , being honest and friendly with other people , being enthusiastic in work , being self-confident . * How positive attitudes affect our work

II. Boby :

Depend on some cases, how each of good attitudes affects success in work.

* First attitude : indentifying clearly future goals and future jobs . * Second attitude : loving work * Final attitude : being self-confident * Explain about them * Advantages of these attitudes

III. Conclusion :

There are a lot of ways which helps people succeed in work, and good attitudes are one of the most important conditions.

An attitude can be defined as a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, event, activities, ideas, or just about anything in your environment (Zimbardo et al., 1999). Besides, attitudes are also the way you think about the life or the way you behave with other people. If our behaviors and thinking are positive, it is easy for us to get success in many kinds of fields like work, study, entertainment and even it affects our life strongly. Thus, many people believe that positive attitudes are the most important characteristics which human should have.
Three positive attitudes in work are identifying clearly the future goals and future jobs, loving work, being self-confident.
Depending on some cases, how each of positive attitudes affect the success of work. I will show you three attitudes which you should have if you want to succeed in your wok.
It is believed that indentifying future goals and future job is the first important attitude about succeeding in work or not. In the past, there was a group of person who graduated Harvard University – the most famous university in USA. Their intelligences, abilities and environment conditions are the same. When graduating, Harvard University made a research about their future goals. As the result , 27% of them did not have goals for future , 60% of them had equivocal goals , 10% had clearly goals in the short time and only 3% had clearly goals in the long time ( Trình , Đỗ , B . 20 tuối quyết định cuộc đời người đàn ông , 33 – 35 ) .

25 years later, Harvard makes a research with these students again. And this result is: 3% of them always try to achieve their goals, and most of them are bosses or talented people in the society; 10% of them do not stop trying to complete short goals, and become experts in their majors, of course they live in big houses or beautiful apartments; 60% of them live and work normally and do not have anything special, they are only the normal or low positions in the society; 27% others are poor and unhappy.

They start working with the same conditions, the same abilities and the same chances. The differences between them are some people have clearly goals and some ones else do not have. If they do not have the goals, how can they have motivations to reach success? Napoleon used to say that:“If wanting to get success, we must have a obvious purpose “. Or according to Harry Nguyễn – Project Manager FPT , students have to have the plan for the future if they want to be successful.
Secondly, loving jobs is also a positive attitude which people should have if they want to succeed in their jobs. Everybody always say that: “We want to have good jobs” or “We really want to get success in our jobs” but how many percent among them love their jobs. I mean: how can they get success if they are not enthusiastic with their jobs? This is also a big question for everybody in our society because unless they love their jobs, they cannot get success. Therefore it is obviously that it is easier for people who really love their jobs to get success.
The first example I would like to mention is Thanh Loc – one of the famous artist, directors, and actors of Vietnam. He used to say that his job is not a easy work and the way of his success is full of thorns, difficulties and tears. He told about the first period when he opened Idecaf Theater, it had lots of difficulties; even he had a tendency to give up their jobs because he did not have enough funding to design costumes of the cast. However, thanks to his love to his jobs, he encouraged his colleagues to contribute a little money to be able to raise funds for theater. And nowadays his theater is a famous place where people come for relaxing and entertaining
Another example is artist Nguyen Tan Thinh – manager of Tan My Loc Corporation which is one of the big corporations in Hanoi. He always says that his biggest secret in his success is his love of jobs. Even he also says that: “People can do anything without love of jobs” (http://nongnghiep.vn/nongnghiepvn/72/133/133/56279/Muon-thanh-cong-phai-yeu-nghe.aspx )
Although the final example is a story about a security, it shows us a lot of thinking about reasons why we should have to love our jobs. In 2011, Mr Ta Van Hanh became one of five excellent staff of Ancom Communication Corporation although he just was a security. He loved his job and tried to work with his passion and his enthusiasm. Thus, he got a good result and received the respect and admire from many other staff.
(http://ancom-acc.com/Desktop.aspx/Tin-tuc/Tin-cong-ty/Nguoi_bao_ve_yeu_nghe/ )
Finally, being self-confident is vitally important. It is an undeniable fact that most successful people are always confident themselves. They always believe what they do, even sometimes their choices are taken a plenty of protests from other people. As to confidence, Steve Jobs can be regarded as a typical example. In all his life, he had got a variety of successes by his decisions. On the other words, he always believes himself, believe what he did and felt in his business. In 1986, Steve Jobs spent 10 million dollars to buy Lucas Company which was only a small company. Then he changed the name into Pixar. During 6 years, he spent a lot of money on Pixar (about 40 million dollars ) but the company could make any profits except some short famous films. As the result, in 1993, Pixar became the famous cartoon-production company in over the world and the commercial value of Pixar was 1.2 billion dollars – a huge number compared to the period when Steve Jobs bought it. Moreover, he also had other decisions which had a big impact on his company. In January 2001, Steve Jobs set up the first Apple Store and invited the Apple Managements to visit it. Although taking agreement from Apple Managements , he received a lot of sneers from many experts such as Joseph Graziano and David Goldstein, even the newspaper like Business Week Newspaper. However, when the first Apple Store launched in Tyson;s Corner, Virginia in 19 May 2001, there were thousands of visits to Apple Store per week. In 2004, there were average 5400 visits to Apple Stores per week and it helped Apple earn 1.2 billion dollars in that year.
These examples show that confidence is one of the most important attitude which people should have if they want to be succes in their work.
In conclusion, it is no doubt that in the fast-changing world nowadays, people have to face with a lot of difficulties and problems if they want to get success in their jobs. Moreover, not only do the modern work require knowledge, skills and experience, they also need soome positive attitudes. Businesses always want their employees know how to communicate with other people and how to behave in the working environment. Therefore some positive attitudes such as identifying clearly the future goals and future jobs, loving work, being self-confidennnt play a vitally important role in getting success in their work.

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