The Life Styles Inventory™ (Lsi) Paper
The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) Paper
MGMT 591
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
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Introduction
The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a series of questions in the areas of personal satisfaction, stress, effectiveness and quality of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumplex identifying 12 specific patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level--representing the essence of an individual's effectiveness. The circumplex provides a visual description of an individual's thinking and behavior and then compares results with those of other individuals who have taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses in order to create awareness of constructive behavior. The results plotted on the circumplex are divided into areas defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction, security, task-centered and people-centered orientations. Within these spheres are 12 separate styles (humanistic-encouraging, affiliative, approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionist, achievement, and self-actualizing) which are subsequently grouped into three specific patterns: constructive (reflect self-enhancing thinking and behavior that contribute to one's level of satisfaction, ability to develop healthy relationships and work effectively with people, and proficiency at accomplishing tasks), Passive/defensive(represent self-protecting thinking and behavior that promote the fulfillment of security needs through interaction with people), and Aggressive/defensive(describe self-promoting thinking and behavior used to maintain status/position and fulfill security needs through task-related activities) (Human Synergistics International, 1987-2007.)
My Results
Position Style Raw Score Percentile Score
1 Humanistic-Encouraging 33 69
2 Affiliative 34 70
3 Approval 11 38
4 Conventional 10
MGMT 591
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
?
Introduction
The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) presents a series of questions in the areas of personal satisfaction, stress, effectiveness and quality of interpersonal relationships and then collates participant responses into a circumplex identifying 12 specific patterns or styles of thinking, behaving and interacting on a personal, management and leadership level--representing the essence of an individual's effectiveness. The circumplex provides a visual description of an individual's thinking and behavior and then compares results with those of other individuals who have taken the inventory in order to create self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses in order to create awareness of constructive behavior. The results plotted on the circumplex are divided into areas defined by higher order and lower order needs of satisfaction, security, task-centered and people-centered orientations. Within these spheres are 12 separate styles (humanistic-encouraging, affiliative, approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionist, achievement, and self-actualizing) which are subsequently grouped into three specific patterns: constructive (reflect self-enhancing thinking and behavior that contribute to one's level of satisfaction, ability to develop healthy relationships and work effectively with people, and proficiency at accomplishing tasks), Passive/defensive(represent self-protecting thinking and behavior that promote the fulfillment of security needs through interaction with people), and Aggressive/defensive(describe self-promoting thinking and behavior used to maintain status/position and fulfill security needs through task-related activities) (Human Synergistics International, 1987-2007.)
My Results
Position Style Raw Score Percentile Score
1 Humanistic-Encouraging 33 69
2 Affiliative 34 70
3 Approval 11 38
4 Conventional 10