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© 2007 by Prentice Hall

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Chapter 1:Developing Self-Awareness

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• Understand your sensitivity line• Clarify personal values and moral maturity level

• Apply your personal learning style

• Discover your orientation toward change

• Identify your interpersonal style

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Learning Objectives


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Keys to Self- Awareness

“Know Thyself”Carved on the Oracle at Delphi

“He that would govern others must first master

himself”Messinger

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Hierarchy of Personal Life-Management Skills

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The Enigma of Self-Awareness

•Seeking self knowledge is a prerequisite for personal growth.•However, we avoid seeking information about ourselves because it may make us feel inferior.

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The Sensitivity LineThe point at which individuals become defensive when encountering information about themselves that is inconsistent with their self-concept.

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Crossing the Sensitivity Line

•When information is verifiable, predictable and controllable.

•When we self-disclose so others can provide insights into your behavior.

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Appreciating Individual Differences

Differences• We observe differences

• Eliminates social barriers

Distinctions• We create distinctions

• Create social barriers

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Five Areas of Self Awareness

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Emotional Intelligence

•Difficult to measure and define.•Considered to be an important measure of managerial success.

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Components of Emotional

Intelligence• The ability to diagnose and recognize your own emotions.

• The ability to control your own emotions.

• The ability to recognize and diagnose the emotions of others.

• The ability to respond appropriately to emotional cues.

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Values

• Foundation for attitudes and personal preferences

• Basis for important life decisions

• Help to define morality and ethics

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Trompenaars Cultural Value Dimensions

• Universalism vs. Particularism

• Individualism vs. Collectivism

• Affective vs. Neutral• Specific vs. Diffuse• Achievement vs. Ascription• Past and Present vs. Future• Internal vs. External

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Personal Values• Instrumental Values: desirable standards of conduct for attaining an end

• Terminal Values: desirable ends or goals for the individual

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Values that Managers Desire• Sense of Accomplishment

• Self-Respect• A Comfortable Life

• Independence

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Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral DevelopmentA. Preconventional

(Self Centered)A. Conventional

(Conformity)B. Postconventional

(Principled)

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Recent Examples of Unethical Decision

Making• Enron• Martha Stewart

• Ford Motor Company

• Firestone

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Ethical Decision Making And Values

•Most managers feel they are under pressure to compromise standards to meet company goals*•Conflict between maximizing economic and social performance

* Study by American Management Association.

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Standards for Making Ethical Decision

• Front Page Test• Golden Rule Test• Dignity and Liberty Test

• Equal Treatment Test• Personal Gain Test• Congruence Test• Procedural Justice Test• Cost-Benefit Test• Good Night’s Sleep Test

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Learning Styles

An individual’s inclination to perceive, interpret and respond to information in a certain way

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Kolb’s Model of Learning Styles

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Scoring Plot for the LSI

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The Learning Cycle

• Developed from Kolb’s four dimensions

• When the four-step process is followed, learning is improved

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The Learning Cycle Model

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Attitudes Toward Change

Graduates of management schools today will face an environment unlike any person has ever experienced before

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Change Orientation

Tolerance of Ambiguity: The extent to which individuals have difficulty coping with unclear situations.

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Change Orientation (cont’d)

Locus of Control: The attitude people develop regarding the extent to which they control their own destines.

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Locus of Control

Internal Locus of Control: ‘I was the cause of the success or failure for the change.’

External Locus of Control: ‘Something else caused the success or failure.’

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Internal Locus of Control

• Associated with successful management in North America

• Are less alienated from work environment

• More satisfied at work• Experience less stress• More position mobility

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External Locus of Control

• Most commonly found in managers from Eastern cultures

• Tend to use coercive power more than internal leaders

• Perform poorly in stressful situations

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Core Self-EvaluationPersonality: The relatively enduring traits that makes an individual unique.

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Determinants of Personality

• Some of our personality may be attributed to biology and genetics

• However, people can make changes to their personality if they are determined

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Personality TraitsThe Big Five Dimensions of Personality1. Extraversion2. Agreeableness3. Conscientiousness4. Neuroticism5. Openness

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Core Self-EvaluationsCore evaluations subconsciously influence people’s appraisal of themselves, the world, and others.

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Core Self-EvaluationFour Components1.Self-Esteem2.Generalized Self-Efficacy

3.Neuroticism4.Locus of Control

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The Effects ofCore Self-Evaluations

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