HROB 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Agreeableness, Collectivism, Job Performance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3100
• Professor: Jamie Gruman

Document Summary

Self-awareness- ability to recognize oneself as an individual (separate from environment and others) Lies at heart of the ability to master oneself (core of human behavior) Self-awareness, self-insight, self-understanding is essential to productive personal and interpersonal functioning and in understanding and empathizing with other people. Many techniques and methods for achieving self-knowledge have been available (group methods, meditation techniques, altered consciousness procedures, aromatherapy, assorted massages, physical exercise regimes, and biofeedback) Self-awareness is very important in being a successful manager/individual. Close relationship between ones self-concept-knowledge we possess about ourselves-and ones feelings about others. Self-concept is essential to improving management skills (more self-aware are more healthy, perform better in leadership roles, and are more productive at work) Self-knowledge can inhibit personal growth-people avoid new self-knowledge (don"t want to acquire new knowledge about themselves because of possibility it is negative and will lead to feelings of infirmity, weakness, evilness, or shame)