Title: Workplace organizational behaviour part II: Perception | First Reference Talks
Headings: Workplace organizational behaviour part II: Perception
Workplace organizational behaviour part II: Perception
What is perception?
Why is perception important in the workplace?
But what does perception have to do with employment?
Examples of perception in the workplace
What effect does perception have on employees and the workplace?
Takeaways – managing our perceptions at work
Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, Ph.D.

Content: There are many factors that influence how something is perceived. Factors pertaining to the perceiver can involve the person’s attitudes, motives, interests, experience and expectations. Contextual factors can involve time, work setting and social setting. Finally, factors related to the actual target can involve novelty, motion, sounds, size, background and proximity. But what does perception have to do with employment? Well, there are various ways that a person can perceive a situation in the work environment that can lead to problems. For example, the following can occur among employees in the workplace on a daily basis: Fundamental attribution error: The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behaviour of others
Self-serving bias: The tendency to attribute one’s own successes to internal factors and blame one’s own failures on external factors
Selective perception: