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LSI (Life Styles Inventory)

 
Peter Black
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The LSI (Life Styles Inventory) is an assessment tool which provides a measure of a person's thinking, from a self description compared to a normed group, and behavioural styles as seen by others and also compared to a normed group, and is commonly used to provide both feedback and development tools for an individual.
 
Both the LSI 1 (self description) and LSI 2 (feedback from others from a person's work environment) )are profiled in a pictorial form using Human Synergistics Circumplex which brings together 12 styles of thinking and behaving and clusters these into three general orientations as below:
 

The three styles * are:
  1. Constructive Styles - reflect a healthy balance of people and task related concerns and promote the fulfilment of higher order needs. These styles are:
    • Achievement
    • Self Actualisation
    • Humanistic-Encouraging
    • Affiliative
  2. Passive/Defensive Styles - represent an unduly strong orientation towards people as opposed to tasks and may characterise people who subordinate themselves to the organisation but may end up creating stress for themselves and allowing the organisation to stagnate. These styles are:
    • Approval
    • Conventional
    • Dependent
    • Avoidance
                                              • Aggressive/Defensive Styles - emphasise tasks over people and are driven by underlying insecurities resulting in self-promoting behaviour used to maintain staus/position. These styles are:
                                                • Oppositional
                                                • Power
                                                • Competitive
                                                • Perfectionistic

                                                                                          * Descriptions have been extracted from Shaun McCarthy, Transforming Leadership and Culture - the State of the Nations - The Research Results Book 2008

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