Disentangling the Process and Content of Self-Awareness: A Review, Critical Assessment, and Synthesis
- 1 July 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Annals
- Vol. 15 (2), 607-651
- https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2018.0079
Abstract
Are self-aware leaders more effective? Are self-aware workers more productive and satisfied? Studies of self-awareness, which have been undertaken in a range of fields, have implications for a wide variety of topics in organizational behavior. Yet this research has been scattered, resulting in gaps, siloed insights, a lack of clear and consistent conceptualization, and the confounding of causes and effects with self-awareness itself. The authors reviewed the organizational behavior and psychology literatures to distinguish, summarize, and assess research on self-awareness as both process and content. Our synthesis of past work on the content of self-awareness is organized around three distinct targets: internal, external, and social. We close with implications for future research.Keywords
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