Perception plays an important role in interpersonal communication within organizations. The document outlines how applying perception theories can benefit managers and subordinates to improve organizational performance. It discusses how developing self-awareness, empathy, a positive attitude, and perceptual skills can help managers accurately understand subordinates, avoid distortions, facilitate open communication, and promote healthy organizational behavior. Overall, knowledge of perception theories enables both managers and subordinates to accurately analyze and interpret each other's behavior in a way that fosters mutual understanding.
Perception plays an important role in interpersonal communication within organizations. The document outlines how applying perception theories can benefit managers and subordinates to improve organizational performance. It discusses how developing self-awareness, empathy, a positive attitude, and perceptual skills can help managers accurately understand subordinates, avoid distortions, facilitate open communication, and promote healthy organizational behavior. Overall, knowledge of perception theories enables both managers and subordinates to accurately analyze and interpret each other's behavior in a way that fosters mutual understanding.
Perception plays an important role in interpersonal communication within organizations. The document outlines how applying perception theories can benefit managers and subordinates to improve organizational performance. It discusses how developing self-awareness, empathy, a positive attitude, and perceptual skills can help managers accurately understand subordinates, avoid distortions, facilitate open communication, and promote healthy organizational behavior. Overall, knowledge of perception theories enables both managers and subordinates to accurately analyze and interpret each other's behavior in a way that fosters mutual understanding.
Application of perception theories in organization
Perception is the process of organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory
information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. And organization is a place where different types of individual having common interest work together. So, in the process of interpersonal communication within organization, one’s perception plays an important role. The following is the application of perception theories for managers and subordinates for better performance of organization:
1. Make accurate self-perception: Self-perception helps manager be aware and
understand their subordinates or other’s behaviour in an organization to deal with them effectively. But first, for managers it is necessary to perceive themselves correctly. As, it helps them understand why they do the thing they do and how their beliefs and behaviour affect themselves as well as others in the organization. 2. Enhance self concept: Perception theories helps managers to enhance self concept. A person's self-concept helps them define who they think they are and how they fit into the world. That in itself makes self-concept important because every individual wants to know themselves and feel as though they belong. Similarly, managers having proper self concept can perceive others accurately. 3. Being empathetic: Perception helps manager to be empathetic. Being empathetic means understanding others view while dealing with them. It helps managers to understand the problems of their subordinates from their perspective. Doing so can help them come to a mutual solution that can be acceptable by both. 4. Develop positive attitude: People having positive attitude always focuses on right judgement. Developing positive attitude is important for managers as it makes their perception positive and accurate. A positive attitude keeps them trying new things, feeling brave about brainstorming new ideas, and makes people feel excited to go to work with their co-workers 5. Avoid perceptual distortions: Perception helps to avoid one’s perceptual distortions about an object, people or event. Perceptual distortions are incorrect understanding or abnormal interpretation of a perceptual experience. So, managers having knowledge of perception can develop perceptual skill to avoid such distortions about certain problems. 6. Facilitates open communication: Perception helps to facilitate open and interpersonal communication in an organization. Perception guides an individual’s behaviour in an organizational setting. Perception therefore is an internal process that occurs from interaction between perceiver, target and the situation. This facilitates for development of open communication system in an organization. 7. Avoid attribution: Attribution is the process by which people interpret the causes of their own and other’s behaviour. Therefore, perception helps the manager to understand the external or internal factors affecting their subordinate’s behavious. Perception can help managers to make right attribution about someone’s behaviour. 8. Healthy organizational behavior: Perception theories helps managers to develop perceptual skills which will help them understand their subordinate accurately. Not only is perceptual skill necessary to managers but is equally important to subordinate to understand their employee as well. It helps create mutual understanding and together they can work to achieve their goal.
Therefore, knowledge of perception is important not only to managers but to all
people working in an organization. Perception theories helps you to develop perpectual skill in order to analyze and interpret other’s behaviour as well.