Generation’s self-awareness: where do I belong?
Self-awareness is a very interesting and important topic not only in this concrete subject but in life in general. Self-awareness stands as the extent to which a person is conscious of several aspects of its inner self, and how those perceptions are integrated with the ones other people may have. David V. Day, Stephen J. Zaccaro,Stanley M. Halpin – Leader Development for Transforming Organizations: Growing Leaders for Tomorrow. (2004) Psychology Press. When looking at generations and how this could be affected by self-awareness, many points appear. We are going to discuss how self-awareness can help a multi-generational labour environment in several ways. The first point a person should be aware of in this unit is to which generation he/she belongs. Although that type of information may seem dull, knowing it can lead to realising how the way you see things a certain way may have to do with the generation you were born and raised into. When we notice that our concrete ideas depend on things we have lived, it becomes easier to understand other people’s ideas and thoughts, or even to accept that in some ways other opinions may be better than ours. In order to refresh the generation … Read more