Chapter 3 - Perceiving Oursleves And Others In Organisations Flashcards
Describe self-concept.
- Complexity - number of distinct and important roles or identities that people perceive about themselves.
- Consistency - high internal consistency exists when most of the individual’s self-perceived roles require similar personality traits, values and other attributes.
- Clarity - the degree to which a person has a clear, confidently defined and stable self-concept.
When do people tend to have a better psychological wellbeing?
When they have multiple selves (complexity) that are well established (clarity) and are similar to each other and compatible with personal traits (consistency).
Define Self-Enhancement.
A person’s inherent motivation to have a positive self-concept (and to have others perceive him or her favourably), such as being competent, attractive, lucky, ethical and important.
What are the disadvantages of self-enhancement?
Self-enhancements causes people
- to overestimate future returns on investment decisions,
- to use less conservative accounting practices
- to take longer to recognise their mistakes
- to engage in unsafe behaviour (dang skies driving)
Define self-verification.
A person’s inherent motivation to confirm and main town his or her existing self-concept.
What 3 OB topics is self-verification associated with?
- Perceptual process - more likely to rmb info that is consistent with their self-concord and non-consciously screen out info that seems inconsistent with it.
- The less ppl will consciously accept feedback that contradicts their self concept.
- Employees are motivated to interact with others who affirm their self-views, and this affects how well they get along with their boss and team members.
What defines Self Evaluation?
- Self-esteem: the extent to which people like, respect and are satisfied with themselves.
- Self efficacy: a person’s can-do attitude.
- Locus of Control:
•external - everything happens due to fate.
•internal - positive; cope better in stressful situations.
Define Social Identity Theory.
A theory stating that people define themselves by the groups to which they belong or have an emotional attachment.
Define perception.
The process of receiving information about and making sense of the world around us .
Define selective attention.
The process of attending to some information received by our sense and ignoring other information.
Define confirmation bias.
The process of screening out information that is contrary to our values and assumptions and to more readily accept confirming information.
Define self-concept.
An individual’s self-beliefs and self-evaluations.
-> it is the Who Am I? And How Do I Feel About Myself?
Define Categorical thinking.
Organising people and objects into preconceived categories that are stored in our long-term memory.
Define Mental Modes.
Knowledge structures that we develop to describe, explain and predict the world around us.
Define Stereotyping.
The process of assigning traits to people based on their membership in a social category.
