What are the most common perceptual errors in an organization?

Answer 1

I learnt about 5 perception errors in my Organizational Behaviour class:

Halo effect: which is when our general impression of a person is based on like one prominent characteristic, which dominates our perception of other characteristics of that person

> For example, a person is sometimes late so the manager forms a negative impression of the person and from then on sees everything the employee does negatively.

Primacy effect: our opinion of people is based on the first information we form about them

> we evaluate the person based on our first impression of them, so if we had a good first impression you wuold view that person in a favourable light

Recency effect: when the most recent information dominates our perception of others

> when a manager evaluates an employee's performance, the most recent performance dominates so if the last thing the employee did was sign a big contract with a supplier than the manger will have a very positive impression of the employee

False consensus effect: where we overstate the extent to which others have beliefs and characteristics similar to our own

> when we want to quit our job we think that a lot of other people are also thinking about quitting their job, like we think that "everyone does it or thinks so"