Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Self-awareness

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Being conscious 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

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Importance of Self-Awareness

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Effective leaders know who they are and what they stand for

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Blind Spots

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Characteristics or habits that people are not aware of or don’t recognize as problems but which limit their effectiveness and hinder their career success

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Trusst

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Gallup research suggests that only one in ten people possess the characteristics that great leaders exhibit, which include traits and behaviors necessary for building relationships based on trust and oppenness

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Personality

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The set of unseen characteristics and processes that underlie a relatively stable pattern of behavior in response to ideas, objects, and people in the environment

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Big five personality dimension

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Five general dimensions that describe personality: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience

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Locus of Control

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Defines whether a person places the primary responsibility for what happens to him or her within himself/herself or on outside forces

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Internal vs External locus of control

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Internal is that actions determine what happens to them and external is that outside forces determine what happens to them

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Authoritarianism

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The belief that power and status differences should exist in an organization

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Values

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Fundamental beliefs that an individual considers to be important, that are relatively stable over time, and that have an impact on attitudes and behavior

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Instrumental values

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Beliefs about the types of behavior that are appropriate for reaching goals

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End values

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Sometimes called terminal values these are beliefs about the kind of goals or outcomes that are worth trying to pursue

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Attitude

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An evaluation (either positive or negative) about people, events, or things

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Theory X and Y

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X is people are lazy and Y is people are willing to work

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Perception

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The process people use to make sense out of the environment by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information

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Perceptual defense

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Errors in judgement that arise from inaccuracies in the perceptual process

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Stereotyping

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Tendency to assign an individual to a broad category and then attribute generalizations about the group to the individual

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Halo Effect

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Overall impression of a person or situation based on one characteristic, either favorable or unfavorable

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Projection

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Tendency to see one’s own personal traits in other people

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Perceptual defense

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Tendency to protect oneself by disregarding ideas situations, or people that are unpleasant

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Attributions

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Judgements about what caused a person’s behavior - either characteristics of the person or of the situation

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Internal attribution

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Characteristics of the person led to the behavior

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External attribution

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Situation caused the person’s behavior

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Fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors on another’s behavior and overestimate the influence of internal factors

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Self-serving bias
The tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors on one's successes and the influence of external factors on one's failures
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Cognitive Style
How a person perceives, processes, interprets, and uses information
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Patterns of thinking
Left hemisphere - logical; right hemisphere - creative
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Whole brain concept
An approach that considers not only a person's preference for right-brained versus left-brained thinking; identifies four quadrants of the brain related to different thinking styles
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MBTI
Test that measures how individuals differ in gathering and evaluating information for solving problems and making decisions
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