(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is the eleventh post on "self-concept". Please read the first ten posts in sequence before reading this post).
Self-concept: Must for Effectiveness, Efficiency, Success, Self Esteem, Growth and Happiness
Only after you know what or who you are, you will be able to take the next step of what you wish to become. With exploration of self-concept, you get introduced to yourself in a much better way, for the first time. You start knowing your current strengths and weaknesses. Also, now, you can define your new destinations. Then, your journey of improvement starts to shape up the new you- your stepped up self concept. Now, you know where you stand, in which direction and how much to travel, what is your destination and you can decide how to reach the mile stones on the way along what time lines.
The distance between where you are now and where you target to arrive defines the degree of self esteem and happiness at any given point of time. More the distance, less is the self esteem and happiness. Less the distance, more is the self esteem and happiness. Arriving there gives maximum self esteem and happiness.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is my tenth post on the subject of "self-concept". It will be beneficial to read through all of my previous nine posts on this topic before reading this post).
Titles of Some of Well Known Questionnaires/Instruments That Are Used to Determine the Self-concept on Various Factors
In the earlier posts, I mentioned that one could use the standard or customized questionnaires or instruments to explore the different aspects of one's self-concept. I give below a partial list of titles of some of the more popular types:
(This is my tenth post on the subject of "self-concept". It will be beneficial to read through all of my previous nine posts on this topic before reading this post).
Titles of Some of Well Known Questionnaires/Instruments That Are Used to Determine the Self-concept on Various Factors
In the earlier posts, I mentioned that one could use the standard or customized questionnaires or instruments to explore the different aspects of one's self-concept. I give below a partial list of titles of some of the more popular types:
- Winners and losers (Self image check list. Refer: (Winners and Losers) http://winners-losers.blogspot.com/
- How do you see yourself? (Personal preference index).
- Johari window.
- Firo-B (Interpersonal profile). Refer: (Interpersonal Relations) http://interpersonal-relations.blogspot.com/
- Know your ego states (Ego-gram).
- Self perception questionnaire: life positions (OKness).
- Overall interpersonal/operating effectiveness.
- Conflict management mode.
- Leadership profile (Managerial grid).
- Work patterns (Type A and type B personalities). Refer: (Stress Management) http://management-of-stress.blogspot.com/
- Three sixty degrees feedback.
- IQ questionnaires.
- EQ questionnaires.
- SQ questionnaires.
etc.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is the ninth post on the topic "self-concept". Please read the earlier eight posts on the same topic and then come up to this post. You will like it better that way.)
Creating self-concept Is Not an Easy Exercise- It’s Not a Cakewalk
We give below one of easiest of the hundreds of more difficult to answer questionnaires that are used to uncover some specific aspects (factors described earlier) of the self-concept. Answer the questionnaire and get the flavor:
On Myself (Fill in the blanks against each point below with understanding and honesty):
- What I like best about myself is__________________________
- I am best at__________________________________________
- My biggest success was/is ______________________________
- In my job I enjoy______________________________________
- My biggest weakness is________________________________
- My biggest mischief is_________________________________
- I feel unhappy when___________________________________
- I feel most happy when_________________________________
- I value myself for_____________________________________
- I feel powerful when I__________________________________
- I am special because___________________________________
- I want to become the kind of person who___________________
____________________________________________________ - One of my dreams is___________________________________
____________________________________________________ - I am________________________________________________
Friday, December 18, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is the eight post by me on the topic "self-concept" in continuation of previous seven posts. You will benefit more if you read the first seven posts in sequence before reading this post).
Time Dimension of Self-concept
There is yet another dimension to self-concept- the time dimension. Is self concept permanent, is it transitory?
Self-concept shows relatively more permanent self-assessments on various factors that constitute self-concept. These factors have been mentioned earlier. Example: if a person is laid back type, it is his more permanent trait and so, it is a part of his self-concept. But the same person may not feel well on one odd day and therefore, he acts a bit laid back on that particular day, it does not represent his self-concept.
However, self-concept may change with time if one tries to change oneself on any one or more or all of these factors or the change occurs due to factors beyond one’s control.
If one wishes to be more effective and efficient to achieve success and growth, one will have to improve one’s self concept from the present (self part and social part, mentioned earlier) to the ideal self concept profile (the ideal part mentioned earlier). This is an important journey- saying that I am here right now and I wish to reach there over a defined time line.
(This is the eight post by me on the topic "self-concept" in continuation of previous seven posts. You will benefit more if you read the first seven posts in sequence before reading this post).
Time Dimension of Self-concept
There is yet another dimension to self-concept- the time dimension. Is self concept permanent, is it transitory?
Self-concept shows relatively more permanent self-assessments on various factors that constitute self-concept. These factors have been mentioned earlier. Example: if a person is laid back type, it is his more permanent trait and so, it is a part of his self-concept. But the same person may not feel well on one odd day and therefore, he acts a bit laid back on that particular day, it does not represent his self-concept.
However, self-concept may change with time if one tries to change oneself on any one or more or all of these factors or the change occurs due to factors beyond one’s control.
If one wishes to be more effective and efficient to achieve success and growth, one will have to improve one’s self concept from the present (self part and social part, mentioned earlier) to the ideal self concept profile (the ideal part mentioned earlier). This is an important journey- saying that I am here right now and I wish to reach there over a defined time line.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is the seventh post in continuation of previous six posts on the topic "self-concept". You will be able to appreciate this post more if you read previous six posts aw well).
Self-concept Is Three Dimensional
You can work out your self-concept mainly in two ways: first, by introspecting within your self. Peep into your own psyche and try to answer many questions about yourself. Like, who are you? What is it that is good in you? What is it that is not so good or bad in you? Where do you shine and where you are dull? etc. You may also introspect the events that took place in which you were a predominant player. Analyze as to how well or how bad the event took place. What did you do right for the success of the event or what did you not do that resulted in failure of the event. You can also take recourse to a number of psychological or similar questionnaires that are designed to explore such aspects of yours (a partial list of such more popular questionnaires is given later in this article). These questionnaires are called instruments. However, answers to only one instrument can not measure all the dimensions of your personality. For example, as you need a foot scale to measure length and thermometer to measure the temperature, similarly, you may need many different instruments or questionnaires to measure different characteristics of yours.
Second way of knowing yourself or creating self awareness is to seek the feedback of others about you on different aspects of your personality and behavior. Again, this can also be done in unstructured as well as structured manner or in explicit way or in implicit way. You can design a questionnaire and give it to many people who know you and get their feedback on it or you can interview them face to face. Or you can collect the data about yourself by observing the way people deal with you, their reactions and responses towards you, their body language and gestures when they relate to you etc.
Having created your own self-concept by introspecting and by collecting the feedback of others, your knowledge about yourself becomes better and better. At this juncture, then, you are ready to decide your further course of action as to what you will like to become really, ideally? You have to decide upon your new image of yourself, your ideal personality.
Therefore, self-concept is three dimensional in nature. These three dimensions are:
(This is the seventh post in continuation of previous six posts on the topic "self-concept". You will be able to appreciate this post more if you read previous six posts aw well).
Self-concept Is Three Dimensional
You can work out your self-concept mainly in two ways: first, by introspecting within your self. Peep into your own psyche and try to answer many questions about yourself. Like, who are you? What is it that is good in you? What is it that is not so good or bad in you? Where do you shine and where you are dull? etc. You may also introspect the events that took place in which you were a predominant player. Analyze as to how well or how bad the event took place. What did you do right for the success of the event or what did you not do that resulted in failure of the event. You can also take recourse to a number of psychological or similar questionnaires that are designed to explore such aspects of yours (a partial list of such more popular questionnaires is given later in this article). These questionnaires are called instruments. However, answers to only one instrument can not measure all the dimensions of your personality. For example, as you need a foot scale to measure length and thermometer to measure the temperature, similarly, you may need many different instruments or questionnaires to measure different characteristics of yours.
Second way of knowing yourself or creating self awareness is to seek the feedback of others about you on different aspects of your personality and behavior. Again, this can also be done in unstructured as well as structured manner or in explicit way or in implicit way. You can design a questionnaire and give it to many people who know you and get their feedback on it or you can interview them face to face. Or you can collect the data about yourself by observing the way people deal with you, their reactions and responses towards you, their body language and gestures when they relate to you etc.
Having created your own self-concept by introspecting and by collecting the feedback of others, your knowledge about yourself becomes better and better. At this juncture, then, you are ready to decide your further course of action as to what you will like to become really, ideally? You have to decide upon your new image of yourself, your ideal personality.
Therefore, self-concept is three dimensional in nature. These three dimensions are:
- Self part: How I think I am based on my judgment and experience. In this exploration, in addition to the self introspection on many aspects, also I get the answers for those certain things that I alone know about myself and no one else knows about them.
- Social part: How I think I am based on others’ thinking or perceptions about me. This comes by way of implicit or explicit feedback from others about me. In this kind of feedback, in addition to the feedback on many aspects, also I get the answers for those certain things that the others alone know about me and I am just not aware of them.
- Ideal part: How I wish to become (and so, wish to be seen) and also, what I don’t want to become. This is done by understanding the other two parts, the self part and the social part and then working out the future plan of actions. It is a serious exercise and also needs good amount of my time and attention. It envelops opportunities and threats, hopes and fears, goals and time lines etc.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(This is my sixth post on "self-concept", in continuation of previous five posts on the subject. Please read the first five ones before reading this one).
Factors that May Constitute Self-concept
(You may benefit more by reading my blogs Effectiveness Management: HSoftware at http://humansoftware.blogspot.com/ and Human Software- HSoftware http://human-software-hsoftware.blogspot.com/ or my knol Management in Life, Profession, Family and Society: The Shyam Bhatawdekar Effectiveness Model: Human Software (HSoftware)" http://knol.google.com/k/management-in-life-profession-family-and-society-the-shyam-bhatawdekar#, which are related to this post).
Description of any entity or any system completely can be done by describing many constituent elements of it in a number of different ways.
For example, imagine describing a car to someone. You will try to describe the car by describing many elements or factors of it in different ways. You will describe its physical appearance- its shape, size, style, color, seating capacity, number of doors etc. You may then go to describe its component systems or aggregates- engine, transmission, chassis, electrical/electronic system, safety devices etc. You may also describe the car by the type of its use and function- sedan, station wagon, sports etc. Thus, the more elements and more relevant elements of car you describe, the clearer becomes the concept of that car.
(This is my sixth post on "self-concept", in continuation of previous five posts on the subject. Please read the first five ones before reading this one).
Factors that May Constitute Self-concept
(You may benefit more by reading my blogs Effectiveness Management: HSoftware at http://humansoftware.blogspot.com/ and Human Software- HSoftware http://human-software-hsoftware.blogspot.com/ or my knol Management in Life, Profession, Family and Society: The Shyam Bhatawdekar Effectiveness Model: Human Software (HSoftware)" http://knol.google.com/k/management-in-life-profession-family-and-society-the-shyam-bhatawdekar#, which are related to this post).
Description of any entity or any system completely can be done by describing many constituent elements of it in a number of different ways.
For example, imagine describing a car to someone. You will try to describe the car by describing many elements or factors of it in different ways. You will describe its physical appearance- its shape, size, style, color, seating capacity, number of doors etc. You may then go to describe its component systems or aggregates- engine, transmission, chassis, electrical/electronic system, safety devices etc. You may also describe the car by the type of its use and function- sedan, station wagon, sports etc. Thus, the more elements and more relevant elements of car you describe, the clearer becomes the concept of that car.
Human being is far more complex. To describe a human being more completely, the characteristics of a person, at least on the following factors must be found out and assessed. Determining self-concept of a person thus is not a very simple task because as you may see that the factors given below are quite loaded.
- Physical attributes (height, weight, hair color, color of eyes, gender etc).
- Values (fundamental beliefs).
- Knowledge (intelligence quotient IQ, emotional quotient EQ and spiritual quotient SQ).
- Paradigms (mindsets or thinking patterns on day-to-day’s numerous things).
- Skills and competencies.
- Internal motivation, will power and action orientation.
- Social behavior with people from various spheres.
- Habits.
- Interests and hobbies.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
Formal Definitions of Self-concept
(This is the fifth post in continuation of the previous posts on the topic "self-concept. So, please read the first four posts in sequence prior to reading this post).
There are several connotations to the word or phrase “self-concept” that we introduced in the earlier posts. Many of these definitions are given below:
Formal Definitions of Self-concept
(This is the fifth post in continuation of the previous posts on the topic "self-concept. So, please read the first four posts in sequence prior to reading this post).
There are several connotations to the word or phrase “self-concept” that we introduced in the earlier posts. Many of these definitions are given below:
- It is perceived personality or an aspect of the personality of the self.
- It indicates the complete personality of the self.
- It is one’s own identity. So, self-concept can be called also as self identity.
- It can be defined as conscious understanding of the self.
- If the typical question “who am I” can be correctly and completely answered, the answer in itself is self concept.
- Self-concept is the search of the truth about the self.
- Without going into in-depth technical debate or technical dissection, self-concept also can be termed as self image.
- Again, without going into in-depth technical debate or technical dissection, self-concept also can be termed as self-schema. Self-schema is the storage of information about the self, the way one thinks and behaves.
- Self-concept is normally an outcome of the self-assessments or introspection or observations.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Self-concept
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
Often Time, Self Improvement Is More Important
(This is the fourth post of "self-concept". It will be a good idea to read the first three posts in order to appreciate what I am writing).
Most often, self improvement is more important rather than expecting other persons or other things to change or improve. Also, the fact of life is that you really cannot change others if others do not wish to change themselves. So do not take the burden of changing others. It is waste of your time and energy. Things will work out better for you if you bring about improvements within you. So, concentrate in that department. Often times, it is seen that if you behave better and keep doing so on every occasion in dealing with others (though, at times, it needs lots of patience), you are likely to get a better and desired reciprocation from others over a period of time.
And as we established earlier, the improvements cannot be effected without observations. So, the improvements within you too can be brought about only if you start observing yourself more and more and also with more keenness. By self observations, you start understanding your own self- your physical profile, your intellectual profile, you emotional profile, your spiritual profile, your competency and skill profile, your thinking patterns etc. You start knowing how good and how bad you are on these elements. You start getting introduced to yourself more and more in many ways. You also start seeing the potential of improvement in certain aspects within you.
You realize that if you can bring about these improvements within you, you can become more effective and efficient. Effectiveness and efficiency in turn will help bring better results through your actions leading to enhanced success, self esteem, growth and happiness in your personal, professional, family and social life.
So, the first step you took was to observe and to know your self more completely and more deeply. Getting introduced to your own self is known as creating the "self-concept" of one self. You have started answering the typical question, "Who am I?" You have your "self-concept" with you, now.
Often Time, Self Improvement Is More Important
(This is the fourth post of "self-concept". It will be a good idea to read the first three posts in order to appreciate what I am writing).
Most often, self improvement is more important rather than expecting other persons or other things to change or improve. Also, the fact of life is that you really cannot change others if others do not wish to change themselves. So do not take the burden of changing others. It is waste of your time and energy. Things will work out better for you if you bring about improvements within you. So, concentrate in that department. Often times, it is seen that if you behave better and keep doing so on every occasion in dealing with others (though, at times, it needs lots of patience), you are likely to get a better and desired reciprocation from others over a period of time.
And as we established earlier, the improvements cannot be effected without observations. So, the improvements within you too can be brought about only if you start observing yourself more and more and also with more keenness. By self observations, you start understanding your own self- your physical profile, your intellectual profile, you emotional profile, your spiritual profile, your competency and skill profile, your thinking patterns etc. You start knowing how good and how bad you are on these elements. You start getting introduced to yourself more and more in many ways. You also start seeing the potential of improvement in certain aspects within you.
You realize that if you can bring about these improvements within you, you can become more effective and efficient. Effectiveness and efficiency in turn will help bring better results through your actions leading to enhanced success, self esteem, growth and happiness in your personal, professional, family and social life.
So, the first step you took was to observe and to know your self more completely and more deeply. Getting introduced to your own self is known as creating the "self-concept" of one self. You have started answering the typical question, "Who am I?" You have your "self-concept" with you, now.
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