MGT 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fundamental Attribution Error, Stereotype, Randomness

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 304
• Professor: Linda Neider

Document Summary

Would you be happier if you were richer: focusing illusion, the tendency to overestimate the effect of a single factor on one"s life satisfaction, ex: income. Set of processes by which an individual interprets information about the environment. The process by which people select, organize, interpret, retrieve, and respond to information. A leader must understand that each person"s perception is their reality and this is how they will interpret the leader"s actions and everything else that happens at the workplace. Process of screening out information we are uncomfortable with or that which contradicts our beliefs. An attempt proposed to develop explanations of the ways in which we judge people differently, depending on what meaning we attribute to a given behavior. First impression error (primacy effect), fundamental attribution error, Attractive people/one good aspect makes you think everything about the person is perfect. Opposite of halo effect; one bad characteristic takes over.