My Life Styles Inventory Leadership and Organizational Behavior GM591 Deena Lampe Keller Graduate School of Management May 19‚ 2010 Timothy S. Mowbray‚ DM My Life Styles Inventory In my Leadership and Organizational Behavior class‚ I had the task of completing a Life Styles Inventory Survey to come up with a self-description of my thinking styles. The goal of this exercise is to find out how thinking styles may influence my behavior as a manager and to help me to determine how to use
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The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) identifies the underlying thoughts and motivations that guide an individual’s behavior. The quality of an individual’s thinking and behavior contributes greatly to that person’s work performance. The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) is based around the Human Synergistic Circumplex‚ describing constructive‚ passive/defensive‚ and aggressive/defensive behaviors. In the LSI‚ the feedback is normed against how 9‚000 individuals have described themselves (LSI 1) and how 5‚000
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Life Styles Inventory Abner Chavez abnerchavez@gmail.com MGMT591 – Leadership & Organizational Behavior Dr. Christopher DeClerk 7-20-13 Personal Thinking Styles In analyzing the results of my LSI styles profile‚ I found that my primary personal thinking style‚ shown in the circumplex‚ is Self-Actualizing (93%)‚ which is one of the Constructive styles. This assessment further shows that my backup personal thinking style is tide with two categories‚ Conventional (75%) and Dependent
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For over a decade managers‚ supervisors and psychologists have been using the Life Styles Inventory (LSI)‚ developed by Dr. J. Clayton Lafferty‚ as a diagnostic tool to give individuals feedback as to how they see themselves. The benefit of the LSI allows an individual to better understand how they are and why they are this way. An individual’s performance is affected by both thinking and behavior. Taking the assessment will help pinpoint the persons strengths and weaknesses in order to make positive
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Life Style Inventory paper a) According to my Circumplex output‚ my dominant personal style would be aggressive oppositional. Indeed‚ I tend to prioritize security over anything. I tend to think a lot before making any kind of decision. I think I have a logic mind and I am hard on myself when I make a mistake. I don’t think I blame others for my own mistakes but I am certain that I have a critical mind which is not necessarily self promoting. My high constructive self actualizing score
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Known for her lively style of art and unique lifestyle‚ Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is celebrated worldwide across generations. Born on July 6‚ 1907‚ in Coyoacán ‚ Mexico‚ a seemingly fitting birthplace for the complex Kahlo‚ the country going through “ the verge of great changes”‚ her life reflecting the nation’s history. Now‚ Kahlo’s birthplace remains as a “series of streets and parks”‚ no longer a region where her childhood was spent free and imaginative. As time continues to pass Kahlo’s home
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Construction hazards • Working at height: XXX describes that working at height includes any workplace has the potential of personal fall of a distance that is sufficient to cause personal injury whether this workplace is at ground level or below it. However‚ most of the resources including XX_____XX mention any work activity which is 2 m and above from the floor surface as working at height. Falling is the major cause of accidental fatalities as it causes about 50% of the total fatalities in
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Part I: Personal Thinking Styles My primary thinking style is dependent. This style fell into the high range of the LSI Style Circumplex with a 96 percentile score. Dependent thinking style is originates in a need for security and self-protection: dependent people typically feel that they have very little control over their lives. This type of behavior may be long-standing‚ or due to temporary life changes such as a new job‚ a promotion‚ an illness‚ or the break-up of a close relationship. When
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of volcanic hazards? (40 marks) A volcanic hazard is a situation that poses a threat to life‚ the environment‚ and infrastructure after a volcanic eruption. Volcanoes are formed at various plate boundaries‚ such as at mid oceanic ridges where plates are moving apart‚ for example at the Mid Atlantic ridge. They also occur on or near subduction zones. The ‘ring of fire’ tends to be where the most violent volcanic activity occurs.
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Running head: LIFE STYLES INVENTORY Life Styles Inventory: Oppositional and Power MGMT -570 Personal Thinking Styles My Primary Life Style Inventory score is Dominator at the 97th percentile. Following closely behind is Pragmatist and Self-Empowered being equally high at 95. Fortunately‚ these two scores are a part of the Constructive Scope. Upon review of these three traits I recognize there are trends in the data which lead to my style of leadership and workplace relationships
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