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Perception and Social Perception in Organizations

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Summary

Perception shapes how people make sense of their surroundings and decide how to act. In organizations, employees may encounter the same event yet respond differently because they notice and interpret different aspects of it.

Perception is the process by which a person screens, selects, organizes, and interprets stimuli to give them meaning. It helps people make sense of their environment and choose an appropriate behavioral response.

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Perception
The process of screening, selecting, organizing, and interpreting stimuli to give them meaning.
Perceptual selectivity
Choosing which objects or events in the environment receive attention.
Perceptual organization
Arranging selected information and attaching meaning to it.
Response disposition
The tendency to recognize familiar objects more quickly than unfamiliar ones.
Social perception
The processes of interpreting, categorizing, and forming impressions of other people.

Quiz questions

  1. When people become accustomed to a routinely loud voice and pay it less attention, what best explains the change?Answer: The stimulus has become familiar and less attention-grabbing.
  2. What is response salience?Answer: A tendency to focus on stimuli related to immediate needs or wants.
  3. People who briefly see an unusual black heart on a playing card may report seeing a red heart instead. Which influence does this illustrate?Answer: Familiar expectations can shape recognition.
  4. Executives from different departments identify different main problems in the same company case. What is a likely influence on their interpretations?Answer: Their organizational roles shape what they consider important.
  5. A supervisor lets one favorable trait shape their overall positive judgment of an employee. What bias is this?Answer: The halo effect.

Based on Organizational Behavior by J. Stewart Black, David S. Bright, Donald G. Gardner, Eva Hartmann, Jason Lambert, Laura M. Leduc, Joy Leopold, James S. O’Rourke, Jon L. Pierce, Richard M. Steers, Siri Terjesen, Joseph Weiss (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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