Introduction to Organizational Behavior

Session 2: Understanding Self

Session Objectives

• Understand the concept of self-awareness

• Importance of self-awareness
• Self awareness archetypes
• Johari Window Worksheet
• Techniques to enhance self awareness
What is self-awareness?

• Ability to monitor our inner world?

• State of self-consciousness?
• Difference between how we see ourselves vs. how others see us?

• How clearly we see our own values, passions,
aspirations, fit with our environment, reactions
Internal Self-
(including thoughts, feelings, behaviors,
Awareness
strengths, and weaknesses), and impact on
others.
Positively related to: Higher job and
relationship satisfaction, personal
and social control, happiness.
Negatively related to: anxiety, stress,
depression.

Positively related to: Showing

empathy, taking others’ perspective.
External Self- • Understanding how other people view us, in Leaders’ with external self-
Awareness terms of those same factors listed above. awareness: Employees have better
relationship with them, feel more
satisfied, and see them as more
effective.
Individual Frame of Reference

• Every individual has a model of reality that he may be consciously aware of or may not be aware
at all.

• Models are “assumptive framework”.

• Assumptions based on: beliefs, values, and attitude.

• Assumptions -> Perception -> Decision Making

Self-Awareness Archetypes

Low external self-awareness High external self-awareness

High Internal
INTROSPECTORS AWARE
self-awareness

Low internal self- SEEKERS PLEASERS

awareness
JOHARI WINDOW

• Psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955.

• Based on two ideas-

 trust can be acquired by revealing information about you to others, and

 learning about yourselves from their feedbacks.

• Useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness and mutual understanding between
individuals within a group.

• Can also be used to assess and improve a group's relationship with other groups.
• Open Area: Information (behavior, attitude, feelings,
emotion, knowledge, experience, skills, views, etc.) about a
person that are known to the person and his or her peers.

• Blind Spot: Information not known to the subjects but only

to their peers.

• Hidden Area: Information known to the subjects but not

known to any of the peers.

• Unknown: Information now known to the subjects and the

peers.