Developing Management Skills Study Guide

Developing Management Skills, 8e (Whetten/Cameron)
Chapter 1 Developing Self-Awareness

1) Self-awareness is at the foundation of personal life management skills.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Though self-awareness is not itself sufficient for good life management, other management skills (such as self-control, time-management, stress mitigation) build upon strong self-awareness skills.
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 57
Topic: Key Dimensions of Self-Awareness
Skill: Recall

2) Empirical evidence indicates that people who are more self-aware are healthier, perform better in leadership roles, and are more productive at work.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: This is true because we cannot improve ourselves or develop new capabilities
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Cheating on a test is a means to an end and has to do with your standards of conduct or methods, which is an instrumental value.
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 68-69
Topic: Important Areas of Self-AwarenessPersonal Values
Skill: Understanding

18) If you judge right and wrong on the basis of a set of core values developed from personal experience, you are at the principled level of maturity.
Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Principled maturity is the level in which moral values reside in a commitment to freely selected standards, rights, and duties. At the highest stage of maturity, this set of values is comprehensive, consistent, and universal.
Diff: 1 Page Ref: 70-71
Topic: Important Areas of Self-AwarenessValues Maturity
Skill: Recall

19) Assume you are a male during the late 1960s. If you joined the protests against the Vietnam War because you didn't want to go (you had college to finish), your level of maturity was self-centered.
Answer:
A) Be an enigma to themselves
B) Work toward self-denial and unselfishness
C) Work toward self-awareness and self-acceptance
D) Work toward self-reverence and reflection
Answer: C
Explanation: A) Incorrect. Being an enigma to oneself is not helpful in a managerial situation. Managers should work toward self-awareness and self-acceptance. Once managers are aware of and accept themselves, they are able to understand and accept others.
B) Incorrect. Self-denial and unselfishness are not always helpful in managerial situations. Managers should work toward self-awareness and self-acceptance. Once managers are aware of and accept themselves, they are able to understand and accept others.
C) Correct. Once managers are aware of and accept themselves, they are able to understand and accept others.
D) Incorrect. Self-reverence may actually be counterproductive, because self-reverent people fear discovering negative information about themselves. Managers should work toward self-awareness and self-acceptance in order to know and accept others.
Diff: 2 Page Ref: 58
Topic: Key Dimensions of Self-Awareness
Skill: Understanding

31) How can the enigma of self-awareness be