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Perception Making Sense of World Around Us.: Self-Concept
Perception Making Sense of World Around Us.: Self-Concept
Perception Making Sense of World Around Us.: Self-Concept
PERCEPTION
Self-Concept
The process of receiving info about &
complexity making sense of world around us.
• consistency Determine which info to notice
• clarity How categorize the info
How to interpret info within our existing
knowledge
Selective attention – process attending some
Complexity – num of distinct and important roles info received by our senses and ignore other
that ppl perceive. Every person hve different info
roles to play Influence by characteristic of the
Consistency – multiple selves require similar person/object
personality. Even though play different roles, Emotional market help to store info in
but ppl go consistent character memory
Clarity – degree to which self-concept is clear, Confirmation bias eliminate any info that
confidently described. This is where u clear is different from what u believe. Only
about your own self accept info on what u believe
Self- enhancement - ability to promote our own
self PERCEPTION ORGANIZATION(grouping)
Positive : move forward ( experience better Categorical thinking – nonconscious process
mental & physical health) and more of organizing ppl and objects into preconceived
confidence (try to improvise self-weakness) categories that are store in our long term
Negative : overestimate future return ( over memory.
confident) Relies on variety of automatic perceptual
Self-verification – confirm and maintain existing grouping principles.
self-concept by need feedback from other on what Cognitive closure – we guess what will happen
u claim about yourself true or not (filling the missing pieces of event)
perceiving trends – common perception at a
Self-evaluation – asses ourselves through self-
similar situation
esteem ( less influence by others where
mental models – similar to cognitive closure
confidence about ur own self), self-efficacy (what
problem is that we may block recognition
u claim, u can perform it ) & locus of
of new perspectives
control( belief about amount of control own-self
have over personal life event)
CHAPTER 3 PERCEIVING
SPECIFIC PERCEPTUAL PROCESS Employee has low past achievement
1) stereotyping (easily influence by other’s opinion
process of assigning traits to ppl based on towards them)
their membership in society ( simplifying 4) Other perceptual effects
character based on experience) Halo effect - General impression of a person.
why ppl stereotype : One trait will affects perception on others trait
as form of categorical thinking False consensus effect – overestimate others
need to understand how others behave who have similar traits
motivate by own self-enhancement n Primacy effect – first impression towards
social identity other. It will difficult to change
Recency effect – most recent info will
categorization process – categorize
dominates perception ( the one that easily to
ppl into group
recalled)
homogenization – assign similar traits
IMPROVING PERCEPTIONS
within a group 1. Awareness of perceptual basis
differentiation – assign more Our self awareness to others
favorable to our group n less favorable 2. Improving self-awareness
to other group By applying Johari Model, can increase the
problems : size of open area through disclosure and
over generalize – doesn’t represent feedback
everyone in the category 3. Meaningful interaction
2) attribution theory Engage with honest with other ppl
traits which ppl acknowledge it in u, will Contact hypothesis- ppl who interact more
come out with perception whether it is will have less perceptual bias
caused by internal or external factors. Empathy – understand and sensitive to others
Internal –perception caused by person’s feeling, thought and situation
own motivation/ ability
External – perception caused by factor GLOBAL MINDSET ABILITIES
beyond person’s control Ability to understand & respect others view
Attribution errors : Ability to empathize & act effectively across cultures
Self-serving bias – tendency to Ability to process complex info about novel
attribute our success due to internal and environments
our failure due to external
Fundamental attribution error – DEVELOP GLOBAL MINDSET
tendency to overemphasize internal Improve self-awareness
cause of another person’s behavior and Compare mental models with ppl from other cultures
ignore external cause of their behavior. Develop better knowledge of ppl & cultures
3) Self-fulfilling prophecy
Our perception can change others
perception that is consistent with those
expectation
Ex: u have to do presentation and the lect
give u the rubrics. Therefore, u should
perform well based on the rubrics
Self-fulfilling is strongest when :
First meeting with others
Several ppl have same expectation abt
the person
CHAPTER 4
EMOTIONS IN WORKPLACE Emotion labor – Effort , planning & control needed
Emotions are psychological episodes experience to express organizationally desire emotions.
toward an object, person or event that create a certain jobs require certain emotion
state of readiness
It is a kind of experience Emotional dissonance – difficult to display expected
emotions & hide true emotions.
Potentially stressful with surface acting ( feel
TYPES OF EMOTIONS different inside but act different outside )
Less stress through deep acting (show inner
feeling that portray us)
EMOTIONAL INTELLINGENCE
Set of abilities to perceive & express emotion,
adapt emotion in thought , understand & reason in
emotion, and regulate emotion in oneself
WORKPLACE STRESSOR
Stressor are the factor of stress
Harassment and inactivity – may be physical
harassment or sexual harassment
Work overload - poor worklife balance
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT Low task control – you do not know how to do the
Represent employee commitment towards work as there is no guidance or supervision
organizational
Affective commitment – indv’s emotion attach to
MANAGING WORK STRESS
an organization. Have sense of belonging towards
Remove the stressor
the organization.
Withdraw from the stressor - take vacation or move
Continuance commitment – indv’s calculative
to anthr workplace
attachment to an organization. Employee stay bcs Change stress perception - improve self- concept so
too costly to quit or stay bcs paid high salary/ that the job is not threatening
bonus by the co. Receive social support
EXPECTANCY TEORY
Motivation of effort put by someone in order to
create certain behavior to achieve goals. OB CONSEQUNCES
Positive reinforcement
When consequence is introduced, behavior
will increase/maintained
Punishment- occurs when consequence is
decrease the frequency of behavior.
Extinction –behavior decrease when no
consequence occurs
Negative reinforcement – occur when removal
of a consequence increase/maintain.
increasing E-to-P
increase employee’s belief that they is capable SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY
to perform the job successfully Can be learn by urself or observe others
hire, train and match ppl to job requirements. Learning behavior outcomes
Provide sufficient resources & behavioral Observe role model to move forward and
modelling change so that u receive a reward
Increasing P-to-O Behavior modelling
Increase employee’s belief that their good Observe ppl & follows step by step to be
performance will result in certain outcomes. more tve
Measure performance accurately there should be somebody to teach employees
Explain how reward are linked to performance so that they have the right ways to be in the
Increasing outcomes valences right path
Increase employee’s expected value of self-regulation
outcomes result from desired performance encourage urself to ur own motivation
Individualize rewards set goals, standard. And anticipate
Minimize countervalent outcomes. consequences.
EFFECTIVE GOAL SETTING ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE
specific- what, how, where, when and with whom Procedural justice
the task needs to be accomplished. Perceived fairness of the procedure used to
Measurable –how much, how well at what cost decide the distribution of resources
Achievable – challenging yet accepted
Relevant – relevant to employees job within their Distributive justice
control Perceived fairness in outcomes we receive
Time framed – due date and when assessed relative to our contribution & outcomes n
Exciting – employees commitment, not just contribution of others
compliance
Reviewed – feedback and recognition on goal
progress EQUITY THEORY
BALANCED SCOREBOARD
Translate org vision n mission into specific,
measurable performance goals related to
financial, customer, internal and learning/growth.
Effective feedback
Specific – connected to goals detail
Relevant – relates to person’s behavior
Timely – links action to outcomes
Credible – trustworthy source
Sources of feedback
Social sources – feedback directly from others
Nonsocial sources – feedback not directly by
people such as electronic display, customer
survey result
C.6 TEAM DYNAMICS
TEAMS Team design
Groups of 2 or more ppl Task characteristic - categorize work in
Interact among each other to achieve goals term of degree of independence : reciprocal,
Responsible for achieving common goals sequential or pooled
Team size – no.of ppl on the team
Determinants of team types Team composition – balance between
Permanence – how long that type of team homogeneity and diversify
usually exist ( perpetual or continue existence )
Skill differentiation – degree of skill/knowledge Team processes
diversity in the team Team development – forming, storming,
Authority differentiation – degree that decision performing lifecycle of a team
making responsibility is distributed throughout Team norms – list of behavior that teams
the team agrees to discourage /developed
Team cohesiveness – degree of attraction the
INFORMAL GROUPS members feels towards the team
Group that naturally emerge due to response and Boundary mgt – addresses who is and not on
common interest the team n who the other critical ‘partners’
Exist primarily for the benefits of their member
Why exist?? Team effectiveness
Drive to bond Achieve org goals
Provide by social identity- we define Satisfy member needs
ourselves by group membership Maintain team survival
Goal accomplishment that cannot achieve
individually
TEAM DESIGN ELEMENTS
Task characteristic
TEAM EFFECTIVENESS MODEL In org, each task need to be clarify through
job description
Well structure task is easier to coordinate
Higher task interdependence
Require better communication
Motivate team membership
Team Cohesion
Member similarity- ppl attracted to others
who are similar to them
Team size- smaller size tend to have more
cohesion bcs it is easier to agree on goals
Member interaction – more cohesion when
members interact with one another fairly
regularly
Somewhat difficult entry – more cohesion
when entry to the team is restricted
Team success – team cohesion increase with
Cooperating- willing to work together rather than level of success bcs ppl attracted to groups
alone that fulfills their goals and needs
Coordinating – actively manage team’s work so
that performed efficiently Team trust
Communicating – transmit info freely, Tve expectation one person has towards
efficiently and respectfully another person.
Comforting – help coworkers to maintain Calculus - based on cost benefit. U will like
positive n healthy psychological state that person if that person do something that u
Conflict resolving- skill and motivation to like/impress
resolve disagreement among team members. Knowledge – trust based on competencies
that they have.
Identification – trust if that person have
same/similar understanding ( think, feels ,act)
TEAM PROCESSES
Team development SELF DIRECTED TEAMS
Forming – learn abt each other ;evaluate Leader have kind of freedom to decide
membership empowerment
Storming - conflict exist; misunderstanding. Cross-functional work groups tht are organize
Therefore will find resolution & get around work processes.
experience so that same conflict wont happen
in future
Norming – consensus around team obj &
team mental model. Try to normalize situation
after conflict
Performing – efficient coordination
Success factor
Responsible for entire work process
High interdependence within teams
Low interdependence with other teams
VIRTUAL TEAMS
Members does not need to be present at physical
location but only communicate through video
conference.
Success factor :
High-self-discipline person
Effective, high speed internet
Members should meet face to face fairly early
in the team development process.