UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MINDANAO
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Mintal, Tugbok District, Davao City 8000
Alambatin, Peth Trixia Brooxs C.
MS Food Science
MM216: Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations Systems
A Reflection Paper: Fundamental Legal Principles of Employees’ Rights to Organize and
Collective Bargaining and Best Practices
During the talk of Ms. Gina Minoza, she had anchored her insights on Stewart Emery’s writing
with a title, “Mastery”. With her talk, I have come to have lighten myself that, the journey of
owning excellence in career lies within what we choose to settle for. And earning mastery towards
our career takes more than just bending over backwards. It takes steps, no shortcuts. To begin, we
must aim to have a healthy mindset. Our mental wellbeing can be influenced with several factors,
and one could be the kinds of people that surround us. Belonging to a space surrounded with people
that only shows off resignation to mediocrity and stagnation unconsciously spreads social
contagion. Personally, I believe that it is healthy to be with people that share common goals with
you and to be with people that drives you to do more than just the average.
Success in our career is our responsibility. And our success is proportional to the effort we put into
our work. No one starts off great, we all are once a beginner. And we should allow ourselves to be
a beginner. Take advice from the experts and learn from their experiences rather than become bitter
with them being better than you. There will always be someone who is better and lesser than you.
A feeling of inferiority is inevitable, but we must own up to our shortfalls and allow yourself to
grow. Once we have planted the learnings we have taken from our teachers, coaches or mentors,
let it grow healthily within ourselves. Being a beginner with having the need to catch up, must be
taken to another level until mastery is achieved. And from there, we should then commit ourselves
to excellence because having the lack of experience, knowledge, and skills is intimidating. We
must learn to know that, the only person we should be comparing ourselves to is to the person that
we are yesterday. Also, must learn to see that, at some point of uncertainties, things may go along
our favor or the way around. But, failures should not equate to resignation to mediocrity.