Question

Why is self-awareness important for being a good manager? Can you think of some specific negative consequences that might result from a manager with low self-awareness?

2. As a manager, how might you deal with an employee who is always displaying negative emotions that affect the rest of the team? How might you use an understanding of attributions and emotional contagion to help you decide what to do?

3. What are some specific tips that you would give a new manager for building trust with subordinates? With other managers?

Answer 1

To know yourself better than anyone else is termed as Self Awareness. Self Awareness means the judge oneself on the basis of emotion or practical approach or with respect to the thoughts and belief he possess.

The Self aware person will be able to conclude the strength and weakness they have.

Every Manager leads the team of employee. Becoming the leader is in itself a big responsibility of understanding the concern of their employees.

1. Understanding the employee is must to be in the organisation .Therefore the team building will only developed when concern of every team member is developed by manager.
2. The communication will also be flexible and clear in this way in the overall organisation. There will be creation of dialogue communication between the manager and subordinate.
3. The strong communication build professionalism in employees
4. Confidence is what that is developed from inner self. For a good confidence one should be able to know their strength and weakness therefore self awareness is must.
5. There will be improvisation and nourishment to skills required in the management and for achieving goals..
6. Proper Control and Coordination of with employees is also developed.

Hence one is able to motivated himself and can motivate the employee thereby encouraging stress Management at the workplace.

Negative consequences

1. The one not able to analyse himself or herself will not be able to analyse their team as well. Hence making the team insufficient.
2. The person not able to analyse about himself is not able to differentiate between ego and self respect, taking every thing on their ego and claiming it as self respect.
3. Lack of Self awareness will lead to emotional breakdown of person time and again and their efficiency will be lost.
4. The person of such kind will never accept their wrong doing and will not be accountable hence creating hurdle in achieving goal of the organisation.

Hence the lack of self aware may make a person more rigid and cannot be able to adapt changes happening in the workplace and will lead to destruction of itself and the team.

2. Every manager deals with different mind who work in different situation , therefore yes chances are there that the employee displaying negative emotion may affect the rest of the team . For this type of situation one can :

1. If the Manager is aware of the condition they should not impose more of work pressure on them initially instead try to understand their emotion and the reason behind that.
2. Negative emotion are sometimes because of the surrounding they live in. To monitor the activities of employee will help you to judge him right.
3. initiate the motivation boosting to all employees will make him feel that he is important for the organisation.
4. Meditation and regular exercise will help to gain inner peace among employees.
5. Finding his expertise area and allotting them work accordingly will help to boost confidence in him and he will not be attracted towards the negative emotion.
6. Sometimes employees don't like to be in team or is not liking the team member, in that case the manager should make him understand in polite way the team building spirit and the importance of him as well as other team member.

Every team member has their own personal life as well which can be full of stress and depression. Therefore the manager should aim at creating the work environment light and flexible so that he will not be able to mix his professional and personal life there by not creating negative emotions.

3. Good Manager towards Employees and subordinate

1. The new manager should be confident in their thoughts and follow the concept of integrity.
2. Mechanism of proper whistle blower and vigil Mechanism entrust the subordinate that the manager is for the betterment of employees.
3. Development of common goal and taking care of personal goal of the team member as well.
4. Respect every individual in the organisation and do not disclose the confidential information.
5. When the employee is lacking somewhere concentrating on those areas and making him improvised their skills.

Relationship with other Managers

1. The best quality of manger is to make cordial relation with other managers irrespective of any dispute or any other relation.
2. Building the sense of trust among each other that one can handle complex situation of each other in difficult times.
3. The new manager should respect each and every manager and appraise them for the seniority and experienced achieved by them.
4. The new manager should create a vibe that everyone is comfortable around working with him or her.

CONCLUSION :

Every team is lead by the managers therefore to understand their concern and collectively aiming them towards the achievement of common goal is the duty of manager. They are in a very fiduciary position possessing information that may be confidential of top management as well as lower management therefore the work accomplishment should not harm others.