英国留学申请书

　　Dear Sir:

　　The purpose behind this personal statement is to not only gain admission to your well-established and highly respected Ph.D. program，but to impress upon you my passion for learning and my tremendous desire to succeed in both scholastic research and in teaching on the professional level. I have based my decision to pursue an academic career not on purely practical reasons，but rather on my own natural interests and aptitude. My personal philosophy is that money and social status should not be pursued as life-consuming objectives and that in actuality they are the by-products of goals originating from ones inner needs. I understand that my intellectual capacity is a gift，and I intend to use this gift to the very best of my substantial capabilities.

　　I am interested in the field of study of Organizational Behavior. In the past，I have had the experience of working in settings where the people and the corporate cultures of the companies were all different. I have found that there is a great difference in the both the behaviors of people and of their organizations，depending on whether they are state-owned enterprises (SOEs)，large multinational firms，or small to medium sized foreign enterprises. One simple example is that of the ability of an employee to act independently without direct instructions from his or her boss. In many Chinese organizations，acting without direct instructions is considered a form of disrespect towards the supervisor，who is generally offended by such behavior. In my experience and research，such organizations tend to have low operating efficiency with the employees losing their innate ability to take the initiative.

　　Li Ming