What are the four regions of the Johari Window model? Using your OWN WORDS, explain your understanding of the model, and give your examples.
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he Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. This model can also be used to assess and improve a group's relationship with other groups. This model is particularly useful in team development.
It was devised by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955 while researching group dynamics at the University of California Los Angeles. The model was first published in the Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development by UCLA Extension Office in 1955, and was later expanded by Joseph Luft. Today the Johari Window model is especially relevant due to modern emphasis on, and influence of, 'soft' skills, behaviour, empathy, cooperation, inter-group development and interpersonal development.
The Johari Window concept is particularly helpful in understanding employee/employer relationships within the Psychological Contract. Over the years, alternative terminology has been developed and adapted by different people - particularly leading to different descriptions of the four regions, hence the use of different terms in this explanation.