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QUEStion 2: what is a significance of journey into self

awareness? Describe the role of perception and the factors


which influence it?
Self-awareness is an essential skill for developing personally and professionally. If you have a
high degree of self-awareness, you'll be able to capitalize on your strengths and develop plans
for improving or compensating for your limitations. Part of being self-aware is being
able to monitor and change our behavior.

The capacity for introspection and the ability to reconcile oneself as an individual
separate from the environment and other individualsKnowing one's motivations,
preferences, and personality and understanding how they influence
one's:JudgmentDecisionsInteractions with other people

3 Importance of Self-awareness
Helps understand yourself in relation to othersHelps develop and implement a strong
self-improvement programAids in setting meaningful life and career goalsAids in
developing relationships with othersHelps understand the value of diversityHelps
manage others effectivelyIncreases productivityIncreases one's ability to contribute to
others

Increases one's ability to contribute to others

4 Importance to Managers
Managers who are self-aware:Are superior performersHave a greater understanding of
othersCan relate to or empathize with co-workersAre more trusted and perceived as
being competent

5 Importance to Managers
Are able to reduce the potential for conflictAre more likely to be open to feedbackAre
able to create trusting and productive work environments

6 Lack of Self-awareness
Leads to:Poor decisionsUnrealistic notions of one’s competenciesIncompetenceCareer
derailment

7 Strategies for Gaining Self-awareness


Recognize your weaknesses, strengths, biases, attitudes, values, and
perceptionsAnalyze your own experiencesLook at yourself through the eyes of
othersSelf-disclosureAcquire diverse experiences
8 Figure 1.1 - Means for Obtaining Self-awareness

9 Self-analysisStepping back and observing the factors that influence your behaviors,
attitudes, thoughts, or interactionsNecessary to increase one's effectiveness personally
and professionallyBegins with reflection and exploring your thoughts and
feelingsHelps obtain new perspectives based on new insights

10 Behavior The way in which we conduct ourselves Influenced by:


FeelingsJudgments and beliefsMotivations and needsExperience and others’
opinionPatterns develop through reactions to events and actions over a period of time

11 Components of Behavior
Motivation: Drive to pursue one action over anotherModes of thinking: Way one
processes the various inputs received by the brainModes of acting: Course of action
one applies in a given situationModes of interacting: Way in which one communicates
ideas, opinions, and feelings with others

12 PersonalityRelatively stable set of characteristics, tendencies, and temperaments


formed by heredity and by social, cultural, and environmental factorsDetermine how
we interact with and react to various people and situationsAspects of our personality
are a result of nature and environmentPersonality traits - Enduring characteristics that
describe one's attitude and behavior

13 The Big Five ModelOrganizes various concepts into five factors that are
representative of the characteristics that can be linked with satisfaction and
successComponentsExtroversion: Degree to which one is social or antisocial,
outgoing or shy, assertive or passive, active or inactive, and talkative or quiet

14 The Big Five Model Agreeableness: Degree to which one is:


Friendly or reservedCooperative or guardedFlexible or inflexibleTrusting or
cautiousGood-natured or moodySoft-hearted or toughTolerant or judgmental

15 The Big Five ModelEmotional stability: Degree to which one is consistent in how
he/she:Reacts to certain eventsWeighs options before actingLooks at a situation
objectively

16 Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory


information in order to represent and understand the environment.
Role of Perception

Perception is a subjective, active and creative process through which we assign


meaning to sensory information to understand ourselves and others. It can be
defined as our recognition and interpretation of sensory information. It also
includes how we respond to the information.

It is the process by which an organism detects and interprets information from


the external world by means of the sensory receptors. It is our sensory
experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of
environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli.

Through the perceptual process, we gain information about the properties


and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival.

Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us; it allows us
to act within our environment.

1. Perception is very important in understanding human


behavior because every person perceives the world and approaches life
problems differently. Whatever we see or feel is not necessarily the same as it
really is. When we buy something, it is not because it is the best, but because
we take it to be the best.

2. If people behave on the basis of their perception, we can predict their


behavior in the changed circumstances by understanding their present
perception of the environment. One person may be viewing the facts in one
way which may be different from the facts as seen by another viewer.

3. With the help of perception, the needs of various people can be


determined, because people’s perception is influenced by their needs.

4. Perception is very important for the manager who wants to avoid


making errors when dealing with people and events in the work setting. This
problem is made more complicated by the fact that different people perceive
the same situation differently. In order to deal with the subordinates
effectively, the managers must understand their perceptions properly.

5. Perception can be important because it offers more than objective


output; it ingests an observation and manufactures an altered reality enriched
with previous experiences.

6. Perception builds character (not necessarily good or bad character) that


defines different roles individuals fall into the clown, the hypocrite, the self-
righteous, the victim, etc..

7. It is vitally important if we want to get along with others to try to see


things from their perspective or walk in their shoes for a while. If we walk in
their shoes we will gain a new perspective about things and in that understand
the other and also can love and help the other more appropriately.

Thus, for understanding human behavior, it is very important to understand


their perception, that is, how they perceive the different situations.

People’s behavior is based on their perceptions of what reality is, not on reality
itself. The world as it is perceived is the world that is important for
understanding human behavior.

Factors Affecting Perception

Perception is the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and


interprets information to create a meaningful picture. Perception depends not
only on the physical stimuli but also on the stimuli’s relation to the
surrounding field and on conditions within the individual. Perception is a
process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory perceives in
order to give meaning to their environment.

When an individual looks at a target and attempts to interpret what he or she


sees, that interpretation is heavily influenced by the personal characteristics of
the individual perceiver.
Personal characteristics that affect perception include a
person’s attitudes, personality, motives, interests, past experiences, and
expectations.

There are some factors that influence the target such as- novelty, motion,
sounds, size, background, proximity, similarity, etc.

Characteristics of the target being observed can affect what is perceived.


Because targets are not looked at in isolation, the relationship of a target to its
background also influences perception, as does our tendency to group close
things and similar things together.

There are also some situational factors like the time of perceiving others, work
settings, social settings, etc. which influence the perception process.

Besides these, there are some other factors like perceptual learning which is
based on past experiences or any special training that we get, every one of us
learns to emphasize some sensory inputs and to ignore others.

Another factor is the mental set, which refers to preparedness or readiness to


receive some sensory input.

Such expectancy keeps the individual prepared with good attention and
concentration. The level of knowledge we have may also change the way we
perceive his or her behaviors.

For example;

if a person knows that her friend is stressed out over family problems then she
might overlook her snappy comments. Learning has a considerable influence
on perception.

It creates expectancy in people. The nature of the things which have to be


perceived is also an influential factor. By nature we mean, whether the object
is visual or auditory, and whether it involves pictures, people or animals.
Perception is determined by both physiological and psychological
characteristics of the human being whereas sensation is conceived with only
the physiological features.

Personal characteristics that, affect perception included a person’s attitudes,


personality motives interest, past experiences, and expectations.

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