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assessment exercise is a self evaluation survey that measures various thinking and behavioral patterns. The LSI assessment exercise provides an opportunity to evaluate oneself against twelve (12) distinctive styles within three (3) core evaluating areas: Constructive, Passive/Defensive, and Aggressive/Defensive styles. The results from the LSI assessment pinpoints my strong and weak attributes, and provide suggestions on how to improve on my less desirable characteristics which will enable me to
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Management in Mitcham (2005). The two underlying assumptions under this theory are: (a) there is “one best way” to do a job and (b) workers are primarily motivated by increase earnings. Frederick Taylor’s philosophy focused the belief that making people work as hard as they could was not as efficient as optimizing the way the work was done. Meaning, it is about the process on how to make everything easy and not how long or short the period has been consumed in working. Also, in order the worker to
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that must be answered first is the most basic: “What is personality?” Personality encompasses the many characteristics that arise from within an individual. It is what makes an individual unique. Researchers have developed four different perspectives on personality. Each of these perspectives attempts to describe different patterns in personality, including how these patters form and how people differ on an individual level. Psychoanalytic Perspective emphasizes the importance of early childhood
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employees or their family’s financial stability lightly with the day to day decisions I am required to make. I also do not agree with the thinking style statement, “a person that has little control over their lives,” as I am a firm believer that people have control over their lives and what they choose to accomplish. I put myself through college and worked very hard to get to where I am today. I now want to grow to new levels and in order to do this I need more education, thus the MBA
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2 | * Motivation (definition) * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs | 3 | * Hierarchy of Needs triangle | 5 | * Characteristics and behaviors of self-actualized individuals table * McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y | 6 | * Herzberg’s Two Factors Theory | 7 | * Steps of motivating people (Herzberg) * McClelland’s Theory of needs | 8 | * Characteristics and Dominant Motivators table | 9 | * Steps for applying McClelland’s theory * Conclusion | 11 | * References
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humanistic encouraging, achievement, and self-actualization. The three of these categories scored 40 and ranked in the 99th percentile, these would be considered my primary thinking styles. My secondary style is the affiliate style, which received 38 and ranked in the 93rd percentile. Pertaining to the 12 o’clock position, self actualizing, I feel that I relate to this style, however it is not the style I self identify with the most. Per LSI description, Self-Actualizers are effective because they
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Empathizing the dynamic challenge Jasmine M. Rivera Keller Graduate School ABSTRACT Knowing my behavior personalities and how I manage effectively are vital styles of mundane life because of it’s informational efficiency and consistent characteristic observation. In this study I have found that most of my styles were accurate. Not realizing that my personality traits hinder me from successfully furthering my thought process, thus affecting my progress to grow. Understanding my circumplex
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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
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Email: Course: Instructor: Date: Introduction When you get into Management or at Managerial level, an insight or reflection of your own self becomes very necessary. With the development in the studies of Organizational behavior, management, personality, etc., there are tools available which help us assess our traits. Life Style Inventory (LSI) Exercise is one such tool. It helps you understand
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