ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stereotype, Performance Appraisal, Fundamental Attribution Error
9 May 2016
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Valuing diversity diversity if managed properly this could be a very good thing for a company and brings a big competitive advantage. A major barrier to valuing diversity is the stereotype. Common workplace stereotypes are based on gender, age, race, and ethnicity. Stereotypes can have negative effects on how individual are treated in organizations. Stereotypes threat: members of a social group feel they might be judged or treated according to a stereotype and that their behaviour or performance will confirm the stereotype. Perceptions play an important role in human resources and can influence who gets hired and how employees are evaluated once they are hired. Job applicants form perceptions during the recruitment and selection process and their perceptions caninfluence their attraction to an org and weather or not the decide. During recuritment you need to be aware of the perceptual errors. The reliance on early ues or first impressions.
