Chapter 4 Flashcards
Self-Awareness
- being aware of the internal aspects of one’s nature, such as personality traits, emotions, values, attitudes, and perceptions, and appreciating how your patterns affect other people
- most important capability for leaders to develop
- blind spots: things leaders aren’t aware of
Big 5 Trait Dimensions of Personality
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Emotional Stability
- Openness to Experience
Extroversion
the degree to which a person is outgoing
Values
Fundamental beliefs that an individual considers to be important
Attitude
An evaluation about people, events, or things
Cognitions
Affect
Behavior
Values help determine the attitudes leaders display
Attitudes are easier to change
Self-Concept
tempers how leaders see others and their environments
Theory X
assumption people are lazy and natural tendency to avoid responsibility
people must be coerced, directed, threatened
Theory Y
assumption that people do not inherently dislike work and willingly work
Authoritarianism
belief that power and status differences should exist
Perception
the process people use to make sense out of the environment by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information
Perceptual Distortions
errors in judgment that arise from inaccuracies in the perceptual process
Attribution Theory
How people draw conclusions about the cause of behaviors or events
3 Factors: distinctiveness, consistency, consensus
Herrmann’s Whole Brain Concept
Approach that considers a person preference for right vs left brain thinking, and also conceptual vs experiential thinking
A- logical thinking
B- Organized
C- Interpersonal
D- Holistic
Cognitive Style
how a person perceives, processes, interprets, and uses information
