Learning Document #1 :
Obtaining knowledge on database working skills
In making decisions on conducting occupational expansion, most people intend to follow the current trends which are of popular occupations among others rather than making their own decisions on what are the most suitable for them. In doing this, some people have achieved their goal, but many of them have failed due to inappropriate occupations they expanded. If we consider those who have stable achievement and success in their occupational expansion, we may learn that those people do things through their own considerate decision-making based on knowledge and information being collected and tried out systematically on their own. The people who undertake this process of doing before a making decision is regarded as the one who obtains knowledge through database working skill which contributed to the more appropriate occupational expansion.
Chart of thinking model on database working
According to the framework for database working, it is shown that the process comprises at least 3 activities that are necessary for self-development in which the learners have to build their learning habits and desirable behavior in changing themselves or expanding stable occupations.
Occupational database
Performing business is concerning 4 significant factors:
1. Capital factor
2. Product factor
3. Customer factor
4. Self factor
These factors are regarded as the occupational database that the learners have to arrange their own database system and make use of them as the model for working. The details of which are as follow:
1. Capital factor comprising the following:
Capital or asset – such as house, land, factory, and all of our belongings or things to be bought or prepared for doing business.
Finance – an amount of finance to be invested. The learners may have to find the sources of finance, how to get to that sources of finance and how to cope with their financial interests.
2. Products factor comprising the following:
The quality of products and the need of market.
Production processes to be used.
Innovation and technology and how to decrease the capital.
Innovation and technology and levels of production Packaging Storage
3. Customers factor comprising the following:
What are the current popularities or values
Which are the appropriate approaches to reach customers
How to build up loyalty to the customers
How to promote selling
4. Self factor comprising the following:
Knowledge on working skills
Development of team work or employees
Self recognition
Social environment and our place of enterprise
The learners should try to understand and study more details on the said factors to enable them to make decision regarding the model of working system, or they may build up their own confidences in trying out occupational model so that they can see the output and make decision in doing or giving up their business.
Constructing occupational model
The occupational model is regarded as a hypothesis for proving occupational performance in which it has the following steps of operation:
Step 1 – Basic study for summarizing data and constructing occupational model
Starting with the analysis of occupational database in which we need to do all of 4 factors, and then use the result of data finding to identify basic model for the try-out and finding the data information. For example;
Step 2 – Conducting business model
After undertaking basic study and getting the result of the try-out, the learners then use the outcomes to arrange a business model on dried fig production and put into market places 200 kilogram per week. The processes of the model are as follow:
2. Documenting the steps of working - Producing a documentation on the activities and steps of operations to be used by the workers and for summarizing the lesson.
This step identifies from the beginning of completing try-out which comprises planning for business (Plan), conduct plan (Do), follow-up of result (Check), solving problems (Action), all of which are identified as the “PDCA” in which every step needs to do the recording of results and impacts so that it can be used as the data for summarizing the lessons on the stable business administration and development effectively and continuously.
Summary
Business administration, both in terms of production and services, is regarded as the freelance in which the owner needs to build immunity for curing his/her own business and may have to rely on data and information technology relating to various occupations. The operational steps may comprise 4 different factors: (1) Capital, (2) Products and services, (3) Customers, and (4) Self, all of which are to consider from the beginning when making decision on selecting occupational model that is suitable for his/herself.