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MIDTERM ASSESSMENT
Q1. 70 Points
Understanding Human Behavior is critical to organizations - discuss the benefits of self evaluation/self assessment as it relates to leaders today.
Q2. 30 Points:
Prejudice can be hurtful and destructive - discuss how you can personally reduce prejudice in your workplace - please provide an example.
Q1.
Understanding Human Behavior is critical to organizations - discuss the benefits of self evaluation/self assessment as it relates to leaders today.
As the world is becoming more dependent on electronic gadgets, its becomes more difficult to have a face to face discussion or contacts with the people we work with. These have made it more important to understand the behavior of the people we work with and more critical to any manager that wants to be successful in his organization.
For a leader to fully understand Human behavior, that person need to first do what is called self assessment.” being self aware allows one to recognize and improve their strength and weakness in order to maximize their leadership[ potential” Discovering your Authentic Leadership, Harvard Business Review February 2007 page 3
Human behaviors
Bibliography: Robins and Judge (15th Edition) Organizational Behavior Discovering your Authentic Leadership, Harvard Business Review February 200 Clawson, J., McNay, E., Beavan, G., (2000, UVA-OB-0733), Leadership Steps Assessment (LSA), University of Virginia: Darden Business Publishing Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human right The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition [Gordon W. Allport, Kenneth Clark, Thomas Pettigrew] Understaning Prejudice and discrimination -Scott Plous McGraw-Hill books