Importance of Self-Awareness in Organizational Behavior

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Executive Summary
This report has aimed to understand the importance of self-awareness among the individuals and
how they can effectively use their positive aspects in building the organizational behavior. The
employees of the organizations and even the managers need to have proper understanding of the
weaknesses as well as strengths. The individuals when have proper understanding of all the
psychological facets, can easily make decisions which will support their actions and future
situations. This report has discussed the personality traits with support of theories, values and
motivators and emotional intelligence so that these dimensions can be seen in the leadership style
and executing power and politics in an organization. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has
pointed out EFJT aspect of the personality which has determined the perfect job role. This report
has concluded with the decision making and planning theories which has been related with their
effect on the personal career options.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction:..............................................................................................................................3
2.0 Self-awareness...........................................................................................................................3
2.1 Personality:............................................................................................................................3
2.2 Values and Motivators:..........................................................................................................4
2.3 Emotional intelligence:..........................................................................................................5
2.4 Leadership:............................................................................................................................6
2.5 Power and Politics:................................................................................................................7
3.0 Decision making and planning:.................................................................................................7
Problem solving and decision-making theory:............................................................................7
Individual problem-solving factors:............................................................................................9
Career problem solving:............................................................................................................10
4.0 Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................10
5.0 References:..............................................................................................................................12
6.0 Appendix..................................................................................................................................14

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1.0 Introduction:
The aim of this report is to analyses the factors of self-awareness like personality, values
and motivators, emotional intelligence, leadership, power and politics to understand the method
of self-development. The individuals when get introduce in a workplace context need to build
some strategies to overcome some negative situations. This is the reason why they need to have
proper knowledge about themselves, their personality, through process and understanding the
attitudes and expectations of the others around them (McCleskey 2014). With proper knowledge
about themselves, the individuals can make decisions and overcome threats. It is the proper way
to transform the weaknesses to strengths. This report will be discussing the models and theories
of personality, decision making and other factors of self-awareness which makes the more
authentic and argumentative. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test has helped to
open up various personality factors. This report will conclude with the decision making and
planning theories and their effect on the personal career options.
2.0 Self-awareness
Self-awareness is the process of having a clear idea about oneself especially the
personality that includes strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, thoughts, emotion and motivation. This
also helps one to understand the perception and attitude of other to one’s responses at that
moment.
2.1 Personality:
Personality is a combination of the characteristics as well as qualities which form the
character of the distinctive person. This varies from person to person and detail the differences
among the individuals’ behaviors and attitudes. The personality factors are consisted of the