My Life Styles Inventory
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 the results for self-improvement. After taking this inventory, my circumplex shows that my primary thinking style is affiliative (2 o’clock position) and my back up thinking style is conventional (4 o’clock position). I can identify with the affiliative style of thinking; however, I do not believe the conventional thinking style is a true depiction of the way I think.
Part I: “Primary” and “Backup” Thinking Styles According to the LSI results, the customized interpretation of the affiliative scale measures a degree of commitment to forming and sustaining satisfying relationships (http://www.humansynergistics.com/system/affiliative.aspx). This is an accurate description of how I think about relationships in my life. In grade school, classmates would constantly try to pick fights with me and I always had to defend myself. I often questioned who my friends were because the people who I thought were my friends would turn on me in an instant. From that point, I have had the need to build strong, meaningful relationships with people and I have a strong desire to be well-liked by others. I value relationships above everything else, and will go out of my way to help people. I am, considerably, more comfortable with people who I have strong, emotional, and social ties to. I have tried to develop strong relationships with coworkers, customers, and new acquaintances when the opportunity arises. I am committed to developing lasting, amicable working relationships with
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 the results for self-improvement. After taking this inventory, my circumplex shows that my primary thinking style is affiliative (2 o’clock position) and my back up thinking style is conventional (4 o’clock position). I can identify with the affiliative style of thinking; however, I do not believe the conventional thinking style is a true depiction of the way I think.
Part I: “Primary” and “Backup” Thinking Styles According to the LSI results, the customized interpretation of the affiliative scale measures a degree of commitment to forming and sustaining satisfying relationships (http://www.humansynergistics.com/system/affiliative.aspx). This is an accurate description of how I think about relationships in my life. In grade school, classmates would constantly try to pick fights with me and I always had to defend myself. I often questioned who my friends were because the people who I thought were my friends would turn on me in an instant. From that point, I have had the need to build strong, meaningful relationships with people and I have a strong desire to be well-liked by others. I value relationships above everything else, and will go out of my way to help people. I am, considerably, more comfortable with people who I have strong, emotional, and social ties to. I have tried to develop strong relationships with coworkers, customers, and new acquaintances when the opportunity arises. I am committed to developing lasting, amicable working relationships with
References: Lafferty, J. (1973). Life Styles Inventory. Retrieved from http://www.survey-server2.com/lsiuniversity/part.menu.asp. Accessed May 19, 2010. Schermerhorn, J. R., Hunt, J. G., & Osborn, R. N., Uhl-Bien, M. (2010). Organizational Behavior (11th ed.). : John Wiley & Sons.