Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3 & 4: Stereotype, Millennials, Absenteeism

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Meaghan Ross

Document Summary

Perception the process of interpreting the messages of our sense to provide order and meaning to the environment: three components, the perceiver, perceiver"s experience, needs and emotions can affect perceptions of a target, perceivers past experience (cid:224) ex. See what you wanna see or hear what you wanna hear: the target (being perceived, ambiguous targets are susceptible to interpretation and addition, reducing ambiguity doesn"t necessarily mean more accuracy, situational context, ex. Job titles at a business meeting: once defined, we see members of that category as embodying the most typical attributes of that category (cid:224) called prototypes , we associate other people with categories relative to other categories, people tend to perceive members of their own social categories in more positive ways than those who belong to other categories, a model of the perceptual process, 3 important characteristics to the perceptual process.