Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Employee Engagement, Organizational Commitment, Ethnic Stereotype

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Carol- Lynn Chambers

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Lo3. 1 define perception and discuss some of the general factors that influence perception. Lo3. 2 explain social identity theory and bru(cid:374)er"s (cid:373)odel of the perceptual process. Lo3. 3 describe the main biases in person perception. Lo3. 4 describe how people form attributions about the causes of behaviour and various biases in attribution. Lo3. 5 discuss the concepts of workforce diversity and valuing diversity and how racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age, and lgbt stereotypes affect organizational behaviour and what. Lo3. 6 define trust perceptions and perceived organizational support, and describe. Lo3. 7 discuss person perception and perceptual biases in human resources. Components of perception: perception has three components, a perceiver, a target that is being perceived, some situational context in which the perception is occurring, each component influences the pe(cid:396)(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e(cid:396)"s i(cid:373)p(cid:396)essio(cid:374) o(cid:396) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) of the ta(cid:396)get. Characteristics of the perceptual process: b(cid:396)u(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s (cid:373)odel de(cid:373)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)ates th(cid:396)ee i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272)s of the pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptual process, perception is selective, perceptual constancy, perceptual consistency.