Wk 3 Team Reflections

Team B Week 3 Reflection Paper

Lori Abbott, Tiffany Funny, Randy Hays, Noah Hechimovich, Aletha Peirre

LDR/531

November 5, 2012

Paul Wallace

Team B Week 3 Reflection Paper

The discussions of Team B displayed the importance of a leader’s recognition and understanding of the various types of influences that affect employee’s behavior. Some influences include perceptions, attitudes, emotions, job satisfaction, and motivation.

Perceptions

Team B discussed the importance of a leader’s recognition and acceptance of individual perceptions. Perceptions are genuine to the individual regardless if not practical to others. A leader understanding perceptions can better manage conflicts, foster creative solutions, and gain a perspective of other’s values, biases, and expectations other than his or her own.

Attitudes and Emotions

Team B discussed the importance of leaders to recognize how attitudes and emotions influence behavior. Attitudes and emotions can have both negative and positive effects on an individual’s behavior. One of those factors is job satisfaction, which measures job involvement and psychological empowerment, which influences attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. Emotions are reactions to specific events occurring numerous times throughout the duration of a day. Emotions trigger attitudes that affect behavior. Attitudes are data input based on the individual’s viewpoint contingent upon but not exclusive to cultural views, experience, heredity, environment, ect. Attitudes are evaluative statements—either favorable or unfavorable—about objects, people, or events (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Well rounded leaders can produce a high level of job satisfaction by providing mentally challenging work, equitable rewards, and supportive working conditions. Team B discussed the importance of a leader’s awareness of how emotions affect worker’s behaviors. Keeping in tune with the leader’s own emotions, the leader may guage internally how his or her...