MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 93: Selective Perception, Job Performance, Decision-Making

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Those in organizations are always judging each other. Managers have to appraise the performance of their employees. This evaluates the amount of effort our coworkers put into their jobs. Team members will then size up into a new person almost instantly. In a lot of circumstances, our judgements have imperative organizational consequences. Not a lot of people are hired without having an interview first. But, interviewers can make perceptual judgements that aren"t always true or accurate and cause them to create premature impressions that quickly become entrenched. We make our impressions of others within 1/10 of a second and based on initial glance. Most decisions by an interviewer change minimally after the first 4 or 5 interview minutes. Information given early on in an interview carries more weight than information given later on. A good applicant is characterized more by the lack of unfavorable characteristics than the favorable characteristics that are present.