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2personalitylearningperception 160323061808 PDF
2personalitylearningperception 160323061808 PDF
ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
Personality & Learning
Perception, Attribution, & Jugement
Akash Ijaz
Can You Solve These Brain
2
Teasers?
THIS CLASS
Personality and learning
Personality traits
Experiment on learning
Learning theories
Attribution and Perceptual errors
Nupath Case
5
CH 2: PERSONALITY AND
LEARNING
Question
6
Do a personality test
Answers all 60 questions
Use the scoring key to find your average score
for each personality trait
***Remember that some questions are reverse
scored or worded negatively (answer is
marked with an “R”). So that means if you
answered 4, you would change the answer to
2.***
“Big Five” personality traits
15
Extroversion
Energized by spending time with others
groups
Tendency to “think out loud”
Agreeableness
Defers to others
QUESTIONS?
What is Learning?
28
Practical skills:
Job-specific skills, knowledge, technical
competence.
Intrapersonal skills:
Self: Problem solving, critical thinking, alternative
work processes, risk taking.
Interpersonal skills:
Others: Interactive skills such as communicating,
teamwork, conflict resolution.
Cultural awareness:
The social norms of organizations, company
Experiment
30
Enacted Mastery
You have done the task before
Verbal Persuasion
You have been told “you can do it”
Vicarious experience
You have watched someone else complete
QUESTIONS?
49
CH. 3: PERCEPTION,
ATTRIBUTION, AND
JUDGMENT
What do you see?
50
What is Perception?
51
Distinctiveness
IF he acts the same way in other situations
THEN we assume the behavior is internally
caused
Consistency
IF he has acted like this for a long period of time
THEN we assume the behavior is internally
caused
Consensus
IF other people in the same situation behave the
same way… does everyone else do this?
Biases in Attribution
55
Self-serving bias
Opposite of fundamental attribution error
Perceptual Errors
56
Contrast Effect
When an evaluation is affected by a comparison to
the evaluation that preceded it
e.g., Give a presentation after an excellent or poor
one
Projection
When you assume that other people are similar to you
e.g., You assume that your housemates will clean
their dishes right away because that’s what you
always do
Perceptual Errors
58
Stereotyping
Tendency to generalize about people in a social
category and ignore variations among them
e.g., older workers don’t work hard
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Occurs when our expectations about another
person cause that person to act in a way that is
consistent with those expectations
e.g., a person who expects people to be friendly,
may smile more and thus receive more smiles
59
QUESTIONS?
Case: Nupath Foods
60