...Personal Conflict Style Inventory How Do I Respond to Conflict? Instructions. Consider your response in situations where your wishes differ from those of another person. Note that statements A-J (Part One) deal with your initial response to disagreement; statements K-T (Part Two) deal with your response after the disagreement has gotten stronger. If you find it easier, you may choose one particular conflict setting and use it as a background for all the questions. Please Note. The reflection this inventory can create is more important— and more reliable — than the numbers the tally sheet yields. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers, nor have we "standardized" this instrument. Some takers agree with the results; others disagree. Whether you like the results or not, you should rely on them for an accurate picture of yourself only after further self-scrutiny and discussion with others. The inventory is merely a tool to enable these larger tasks. Part One Circle one number on the line below each statement. A. WHEN I FIRST DISCOVER THAT DIFFERENCES EXIST, I make sure that all views are out in the open and treated with equal consideration, even if there seems to be substantial disagreement. Not at all Characteristic Very 1 2 3 4 5 6 Characteristic B. WHEN I FIRST DISCOVER THAT DIFFERENCES EXIST, I devote more attention to making sure others understand the logic and benefits of my position than I do to pleasing them. Not at all ...
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...Intercultural Conflict Management How should we define an intercultural conflict? Is there any difference between a conflict and an intercultural one? The following chapter, which is a summary of the chapter “Constructive Intercultural Conflict Management” (Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures, 1999, pages 194-197), attempts to answer these two questions. At the end of the chapter, we also include an extract of the “Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory” (Mitchell Hammer, 2002) 1. Definition of intercultural conflicts “Intercultural conflict is defined as the perceived or actual incompatibility of values, norms, processes, or goals between a minimum of two cultural parties over content, identity, relational, and procedural issues. Intercultural conflict often starts off with different expectations concerning appropriate or inappropriate behavior in an interaction episode.” (Ting-Toomey, 1999, p.194). Another author holds a similar view: “Conflicts are always cultural, since we are all cultural beings. Yet the very definition of conflict is challenging because of our cultural ways of seeing”. (Michelle Le Baron and Venashri Pillay, Conflict across Cultures, 2006, page 13). According to Le Baron, conflict occurs at ← the material level, or the “what” of the conflict; ← the symbolic level, the meaning of issues to the people involved, especially those meanings that resonate with peoples' identities, values, and worldviews; ← and the...
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...Learning Styles Inventory MGMT/591 May 5, 2016 Professor Matasha Murrell-Jones Cover Page 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Personal Thinking Styles 3-4 Dominant Personal Thinking Styles 4-6 Auxiliary Personal Thinking Styles 6-8 Impact on Management Style 8 Planning 8-9 Organizing 9 Leading 9-10 Controlling 10 Genesis of Personal Style 10-11 Conclusion and Reflection 11-12 References 13 Life Styles Inventory Every individual thinks and behaves in different manners. The use of Life Styles Inventory helps to identify the elemental factors which impact the individual’s thinking patterns and behaviors. An individual’s personal life styles greatly contributes to the role one fulfills in the workplace; from how an individual is able to communicate with fellow employees and upper management to their ability to manage situations and positions of authority. The different categories include constructive styles, passive/defensive styles, and aggressive/defensive styles; each of these categories are then broken down into subcategories which describe in further detail the main categories. These subcategories include “humanistic-encouraging, affiliative, approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionistic,...
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...Life Style Inventory Evaluation Chandra LaPrise cllaprise@yahoo.com March 12, 2012 To help someone be able to identify their underlying motivations and thoughts they should do a Life Style Inventory or a LSI. The LSI will help an individual with their behavior and help them identify their leadership style, management style, and their personal style. All of these styles will help show a person’s individual effectiveness. How a person thinks and their behavior will contribute to a person’s performance at work. There are people that can have a effect on a person that they will change their behavior and their thinking which in turn can effect a person’s effectiveness. Before a person decides to make changes they need to make sure that their behavior is being supportive or if it is not being supportive. There has been analysis that has been done in the past to assess the properties of the Life Style Inventory. Within the Life Style Inventory there are twelve subscales that are considered to be internally consistent. Item total correlations that are generated need to be acceptable of any estimates that are convergent and discriminant of validity. The correlations that are among the Life Style will indicate construct validity. Among the analysis it showed that among the twelve Life Styles there were broader orientations instead of the original that were stated. There was a mapping done of the factor loadings for the twelve Life Styles and it shows that it does not produce...
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...Running head: LIFE STYLES INVENTORY PAPER – SELF-DESCRIPTION Life Styles Inventory Paper – Self-Description Keller Graduate School of Management Of DeVry University Abstract Taking the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) was a real eye opening experience for me. I didn’t think I would be so strong in the Aggressive / Defensive, or so weak in the Constructive categories. Thank goodness the styles are not permanent personality characteristics nor intractable; and can change because of new roles, environmental changes, and personal development efforts. According to LSI: The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individual's behavior. The quality of an individual's thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person's work performance. The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is based around the Human Synergistic Circumplex, describing constructive, passive/defensive and aggressive/defensive behaviors. In the LSI, the feedback is normalized against how 9,000 individuals have described themselves (LSI 1) and how 5,000 individuals have been described by 25,000 others (LSI 2). (LSI Human Synergistic www.human-synergistic.com) Moreover, I can trace my results back to my family upbringing, the cultural diversity of my childhood neighborhood, and my career choice. Life Styles Inventory Paper – Self-Description Part 1: Identify your primary and backup personal thinking styles to include a limiting style Is this really me?...
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...Life Styles Inventory™ & Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator®: A Comparison of Two Surveys We are often asked: “What is the difference between the Life Styles Inventory™ and the MyersBriggs Type Indicator®?” Whereas both of these surveys help individuals to better understand themselves and others, they differ in terms of what they measure, how they measure it, and how the results are used. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to highlight what we believe are some of the most important differences between these two popular instruments. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) measures twelve distinct thinking and behavioral styles that are distinguished by their orientations toward task versus people and higher-order needs for satisfaction and growth versus lower order needs for security and safety. The LSI builds on the work of a variety of noteworthy psychologists, including Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Karen Horney, Timothy Leary, David McClelland, Harry Stack Sullivan, as well as management scholars, such as Fredrick Hertzberg, Douglas McGregor, and Ralph Stodgill. It is designed to provide individuals with an opportunity to identify specific strengths in their thinking and behavior, as well as any “stumbling blocks” that may be standing in their way. As such, the LSI is used to initiate positive changes in how people approach their work and interact with others— changes that can increase both their personal and professional effectiveness. In contrast, the Myers-Briggs Type...
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...Life Styles Inventory Paper DeVry College of New York Leadership & Organizational Behavior Abstract This paper contains detailed analysis of my primary, back up and limiting thinking styles depicted from Life Styles Inventory survey results and how I manifest these thinking styles in my personal and professional life is in the first part. This paper also contains the impact of my personal style on management style, assess the impact on my effectiveness as a manager in terms of the four functions of management in the second part. Genesis of personal style, how I developed these styles as revealed by the Life Style Inventory survey is included in the third part. The paper will conclude with summary containing on how I value this exercise for my academic, personal and professional growth. Life Styles Inventory Part I: Personal Thinking Styles (Primary, Back-up, and Limiting) From the Life styles Inventory (LSI) survey, my primary thinking style is “Conventional” which showed a score of 91th percentile and my back-up style is “Self-Actualization” which showed a score of 90th percentile. I accept the survey results regarding my primary and back-up personal thinking styles. “Conventional” thinking style measures how the native adheres to rules, follows practices and principles. “Self-Actualization” thinking style represents the Self-respect, Self-realization, Receptive, Simplicity, emphasis equality, creativity, pursue of knowledge and desire to give for the society of...
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...The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) Paper MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor: Barbara Vallera 5/21/14 Introduction The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a cycle of questions in the areas of personal fulfillment, tension, usefulness and value of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumflex identifying twelve exact patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level representing the essence of an individual's usefulness. The circumflex provides an image of an individual's thinking and behavior and then compares results with those of other individuals having taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weakness in order to create awareness of constructive behavior. The forming base for the LSI represents nearly ten thousand individuals from various organizations, ages, levels of education and from both genders. The results plotted on the circumflex a divided into area defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction and security; and task-centered and people centered orientations. Within these spheres are twelve separate styles (agreement, conservative, reliant, prevention, oppositional, power, aggressive, obsessive, success, self-actualizing, humanistic-encouraging, and affinitive) which are consequently grouped into three exact patterns (success and reliant; self-actualizing and avoidance; humanistic-encouraging/oppositional;...
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...Guided By: - Romuald Stone Date: - 09/10/2015 Guided By: - Romuald Stone Date: - 09/10/2015 Life Styles Inventory Prepared By: - Amar ShahPatel Mgmt-591 leadership and organizational behaviour Life Styles Inventory Prepared By: - Amar ShahPatel Mgmt-591 leadership and organizational behaviour Life Style Inventory The “Life Styles Inventory” (LSI) is based around the Human Synergistics Circumplex, describing Constructive, Passive/Defensive and Aggressive/Defensive behaviours. It provides for self-description. Part I- Personal Thinking Styles What are your "primary" (highest percentile score) and "backup" (second highest percentile) personal thinking styles as shown in your circumplex? According to the LSI survey taken and from the twelve given skills I think following are my primary and backup skills. 1) Competitive 2) Conventional 3) Affiliative 4) Self-Actualizing After finishing the survey and result generated the highest percentile I scored the highest is Competitive. Competitive skill is the scale that measures my way of thinking with others. Competitive skill is the most required skill for a managerial role in any company. Because the company would like to see how you handle and motivate the employees with your creative thinking style. Backup Skill:- After completing the survey and analyzing the result the backup skill that I found out is Conventional. Conventional is the skill that I think is the one of the most important in these...
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...The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) Paper MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Introduction The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a series of questions in the areas of personal satisfaction, stress, effectiveness and quality of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumplex identifying 12 specific patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level--representing the essence of an individual's effectiveness. The circumplex provides a visual description of an individual's thinking and behaviour and then compares results with those of other individuals having taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weakness in order to create awareness of constructive behaviour. The norming base for the LSI represents nearly 10,000 individuals from various organizations, ages, levels of education and from both genders. The results plotted on the circumplex a divided into areas defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction and security; and task-centered and people-centered orientations. Within these spheres are 12 separate styles (approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionistic, achievement, self-actualizing, humanistic-encouraging, and affiliative) which are subsequently grouped into three specific patterns (achievement/dependent; self-actualizing/avoidance; humanistic-encouraging/oppositional;...
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...MI Inventory Paper PSYCH 538 MI Inventory Paper Kathiann Kowalski (2001) contends, “When it comes to describing people's learning styles, one thing is clear: Because everybody's brain is different, learning styles vary widely” (para.4). Learning styles are an important aspect to individual learning. The ability to recognize personal learning styles and identify strengths and weaknesses enables individuals to reach optimal success. Optimizing personal learning style leaves room for improvement. Learning styles vary and not everyone learns the same way. It is beneficial to evaluate learning styles in order to be productive in any learning or work environment. In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of neuroscience and psychologist at Harvard University developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences. Individuals have various make-ups, and according to Dr. Gardner each is a unique combination. Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory suggests that there are nine different intelligences. For Gardner, intelligence is: • the ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture; • a set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life; • the potential for finding or creating solutions for problems, which involves gathering new knowledge. According to the Multiple Intelligence Inventory the results that were strongly identified were Intrapersonal, Logical, and Verbal. Intrapersonal Intelligence...
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...Ethics Awareness Inventory Ronnie Paul University of Phoenix PSY/490 – Capstone Course in Psychology Christine Rose, MA, LPC 2 Ethics Awareness Inventory A program designed to evaluate an individual’s ethical style is called The Ethics Awareness Inventory (Collak, 2012). For most people, right and wrong is evaluated from their own perspective and is very valuable to the individual once discovered. The EAI program will ask the participant a series of questions and then evaluate the answers. Once the test is completed, the program will reveal the type of ethics one possesses. Although, tests results may vary from person to person, most individuals base their ethical views on obligation, results, equity and character. Furthermore, there are some who’s ethical styles are blended, which can put them in two different categories at the same time. This assignment requires that I take the EAI and break down my own personal conclusions of ethical style and perspective. An individual’s code of conduct is directly connected to their own personal ethics. Moreover, personal ethics play an important role in one’s social, spiritual and organizational issues. Personal Summary of EAI My personal conclusion is I view ethics based on character (Williams Institute, 2006). My personal view points are based on personal virtue. I place high regard on honesty, wisdom, justice, personal integrity and benevolence. I...
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...earliest years in the military I’ve always wanted to earn my college degree. I felt that finishing my education would be a personal milestone in my life and that it would better prepare me for the future beyond the military. Although it has taken nearly eight years to complete, a degree in Criminal Justice will certainly be an advantage moving forward. In any type of academic, one must identify different learning styles in order to properly retain the information presented in a course. This will help to prepare for different methods of teaching and how to represent information in a way that will be most effectively understood. According to Felder and Soloman “active learners tend to retain and understand information best by doing something active with it.” (Felder & Soloman, n.d., para. 1) I have always found this to be the best way for me to learn and retain information. Although I have established that this was the best way that I learn, the NC State learning style inventory revealed that I was more of a sensing and visual learner. Furthermore, upon completion of the Penn State inventory I was shown to have characteristics of an auditory and visual learner. When the results were presented to me I was actually quite puzzled because past experiences had lead me to believe that I was more of an active learner. I strongly disagreed with the Penn State inventories assessment of my being an auditory learner for a few reasons. It is suggested that auditory learners take...
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...Running head: OCI SURVEY Organizational Culture Inventory Survey Results Analysis Glenn E. Richardson DeVry University MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior OCI SURVEY Abstract My company’s OCI primary style is “affiliative”, with a secondary style of “humanistic-encouraging”. These styles align within the “constructive” portion of the Human Synergistics OCI Circumplex, and indicate a people-oriented, high order needs-based actions focus. An “affiliative” style is indicative of a company’s emphasis on cultivating constructive, interpersonal relationships. A “humanistic- encouraging” style encourages a people-oriented style with all members helping each other grow and develop. My company’s limiting style is “approval”, which comprises behavior such as conflict avoidance, superficial relationships, and “going along to get along”. These traits run contrary to the company’s primary styles and inhibit full potential for organizational success. My LSI survey aligns well in comparison to my company’s OCI survey. Both surveys indicate a dominant style of “affiliative”, indicating that both my company as well as myself place strong emphasis on friendly and open relationships. Comparing limiting styles show my LSI style as “achievement”, whereas my company’s OCI style is “approval”. Contrasting these traits indicates that I show a tendency to exhibit aggressive- defensive, task oriented behavior that promotes self-promoting thinking...
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...Life Styles Inventory – Personal Results Nakesia Gipson nakesiag@yahoo.com 591-Leadership & Organizational Behavior LSI Paper Dr. Matasha Murrell 11/9/2014 Introduction According to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, “Good leaders learn their specific personal strengths and weaknesses, especially dealing with other people, then build on the strengths and correct the weaknesses.” The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) profile has been in use for over a decade by managers, trainers, supervisors, and consultants world-wide. Developed by Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty, the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) measures 12 specific styles of patterns of thinking that can either help or hinder a person from reaching his or her potential. The LSI acts as a personalized developmental needs assessment calling attention to individual strengths as well as areas needing improvement. It was designed to promote constructive change – transformational change-with the feedback helping individuals more clearly understand what is currently supporting and hindering their personal effectiveness and growth, with guidance to developing more constructive styles of thinking and behaving. With researched linked to personal satisfaction, stress, effectiveness and quality of interpersonal relationships, the LSI can truly help people change their lives. The results of my individual LSI profile are as follows: Figure [ 1 ]-LSI Results Figure [ 1 ]-LSI Results Part I: Personal...
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