Core aspects of

self awareness

1. Emotional intelligence

2. Values

3. Cognitive style

4. Attitude towards change

5. Core self evaluation

Individual Thought Process, Perception and Methods for Acquiring and Storing Information.

Interpret, Judgment and Respond back

Not an Inherent attributes

Knowing style Planning style Creating style

•Emphasize on facts details and data , accuracy and precision are also taken into account.

•Seeks clear objective solution and look for rationality and validity of data.

•Emphasizes on structure, plans, preparation, predictability, rules and routine.

•Seeks clear agendas, outlines and processes, systematic methodology for gathering and responding information.

•Emphasizes on creativity , risk taking ,innovation, interaction and getting many inputs.

•Seeks novelty,ambiguity, experimentation, non rational thinking and creativity.

•Careful , Slow or precise to jump into conclusions and are straightforward.

•Arguments are based on evidence and are Problem solvers and deal with technical task

•Uncreative, intolerant to multiple views and has jut one solution to a problem.

•Process wide range on information and put it concise, cohesive and in logical form.

•Puts into their logic to solve the situation and excel at inductive reasoning

•Difficulty in case of illogical issues and chaos because o0f wide range of information

•Restructure situations, are action oriented do things uniquely and are spontaneous.

•Gather a lot of information and engage in brainstorming and has broad based interest

•Rules and regulations are viewed as obstacles thus are disorganized

Important core aspect of self awareness

Environment is more chaotic, temporary,complex, overloaded, difficulty inmaintaining status, stability, demand ofconsistently positive results.

Refers to the introduction of newprocesses in an organization, or themanagement of people who areexperiencing change.

Tolerance of Ambiguity

Psychological construct which describes therelationship that individuals have withambiguous stimuli or events.

Individuals view these stimuli in a neutral andopen way or as a threat

Locus of Control

The extent to which people believe they havepower over events in their lives.

It considers the tendency of people to believethat control resides internally within them, orexternally, with others or the situation.

Internal locus of control External locus of control

•Manager who base their success on their own work and believe they control their life . They either praise or blame themselves for the outcome of a situation

•A manager gets a promotion at work or achieve some other type of success. he will probably attribute that positive end result to the work he put in. In other words, his success was a direct result of his hard work

•Manager who attribute their success or failure to outside influences. They are more passive and accepting and tend to believe in luck rather than hard work.

•A manager might attribute that promotion or success to external or environmental factors, such as luck, fate, timing, other people or some type of divine intervention.

High tolerance to ambiguity low tolerance to ambiguity

• Managers tend to be more complex, they pay attention to more information , interpret more cues, choose specialties in their occupation which has less structured tasks.

•Managers are of novelty, complexity and are more likely to be successful managers.

•Managers are more entrepreneurial in doing their jobs

•Managers tend to focus less on the information and rather judgment are based on intuitions. They find it very difficult to cope with the organizational change and hence are frustrated at times.

• Managers experience stress, reacts prematurely and avoids unclear stimuli.

•Managers are inclined to focus on various items

A stable personality trait which encompasses

1. Individual's sub consciousness,

2. Fundamental evaluations about themselves,their own abilities and their own control

High core self-evaluations- Think positively ofthemselves- Be confident in their own abilities.

Low core self-evaluations- Negative appraisal ofthemselves - Lack confidence

Represent a personality trait which will remainconsistent over time and also has the ability topredict positive work outcomes

Self esteem: Extent to which people see themselves assuccessful, capable etc.

Generalized self efficacy: Sense of one’s ability toperform capably across various situations.

Neuroticism: Tendency towards pessimism.

Locus of control: Refers to the belief of a person aboutto which extent he or she has control over his or herlife.

Has high self esteem has a high confidence -high valueon generalized self efficacy- low in neuroticism (arestable in their emotions, have control over their ownlife, work and their outcomes are the outcomes of theireffort) -high locus of control

Organizational outcomes

Job satisfaction

Effective job performances

Personal outcomes

Task motivation,

Persistence,

Productivity,

Better goal setting,

Goal commitment

“A person who is self aware takes the drama out of his life and in process

sees through the drama of the other people as well.”