What About Me?
Motivation Insights
WHAT'S MY VIEW ON THE NATURE OF PEOPLE?
Indicate your agreement or disagreement with each of the eight statements using the following scale:
  1. The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, and has relatively little ambition.


  2. Most people can acquire leadership skills regardless of their particular inborn traits and abilities.


  3. The use of rewards (for example, pay and promotion) and punishment (for example, failure to promote) is the best way to get subordinates to do their work.


  4. In a work situation, if the subordinate can influence you, you lose some influence over them.


  5. A good leader gives detailed and complete instructions to subordinates rather than giving them merely general directions and depending on their initiative to work out the details.


  6. Individual goal setting offers advantages that cannot be obtained by group goal setting, because groups do not set high goals.


  7. A superior should give subordinates only the information necessary for them to do their immediate tasks.


  8. The superior's influence over subordinates in an organization is primarily economic.


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Source: Adapted from M. Haire, E. Ghiselli, and L. Porter, MANAGERIAL THINKING: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY, Appendix A. © 1966 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission.