OB intent concepts

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OB intent concepts are those concepts that are related to perception and decision-making researched in the organizational behavior studies. The concepts below are taken from Organizational Behavior by Robbins and Judge (17th edition); Septem Artes Administrativi served as the primary source of illustrations.


Perception

  • Perception. A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
  • Attribution theory. An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.
  • Fundamental attribution error. The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others.
  • Self-serving bias. The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
  • Selective perception. The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
  • Halo effect. The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic.
  • Contrast effect. Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics.
  • Stereotyping. Judging someone on the basis of our perception of the group to which that person belongs.
  • Stereotype threat. The degree to which we internally agree with the generally negative stereotyped perceptions of our groups.
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy. A situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception.

Decision making

See also