Exam 3: Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations

Michael is a professor who is quick to mention this when he first meets other people.He also tends to perceive himself and other professors in a more favourable way than non-professorial staff.Which concept best explains Michael perceptual process?

People perform better in most employment situations when they have a strong external locus of control.

A global mindset includes having an awareness of,openness to,and respect for one's views and practices throughout the world.

Self-enhancement causes managers to overestimate the probability of success in investment decisions.

George believes that women have difficulty coping with the stress of executive decisions.Sally is promoted into a senior management position and George soon complains that Sally won't be able to cope with this job.George is exhibiting which of the following perceptual errors?

Confirmation bias causes us to screen out information that is contrary to our values and assumptions.

When supervisors create a positive self-fulfilling prophecy,they tend to change employee behaviour by:

A diversity awareness consultant submits a proposal to a company that wants to reduce stereotyping and prejudice.In the proposal,the consultant claims that his training program teaches employees to avoid the stereotyping process altogether when perceiving the world around them."Our training will prevent the activation of stereotypes and other forms of categorical thinking," claims the consultant's proposal.Discuss the accuracy of this consultant's claim and explain what training programs can do regarding stereotyping.

The more we interact with someone,the more we rely on stereotypes to understand that individual.

There is a positive relationship between self-efficacy and self-evaluation.

The capacity to empathize with other cultures is an important characteristic of global mindset.

Mental models are mainly related to:

Interacting with people from other backgrounds is more likely to minimize perceptual biases when these people have equal status with you throughout the interaction.

Which of the following is NOT one of the organizational behaviour implications of self-verification mentioned in your text?

Which of the following perceptual activities involves making inferences about the causes of a person's actions?

Which of the following is an example of selective attention?

Self-fulfilling prophecy may result in either better or worse performance than if the employee is not exposed to the self-fulfilling prophecy effect.

The concept of prejudice is most closely related to:

People with higher internal locus of control are more successful in their careers,and earn more money.

Compared with those who have a low self-esteem,employees with a high self-esteem: