Managing organizations and people (Subject) / Individual Behavior (Lesson)

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  • identify the goals and the focus of individual behavior - understanding individual behaviour is very challinging because it is hidden (attitudes, perceptions, norms and so on)- Organisational Behavior (OB) focuses on indivudal behaviour, group behavior and organisational aspects- goal of ob is to explain predict and influence behavior
  • describe perception and factors that influence it perception is how we give meaning to our environment by organising and interpreting sensory impressions. 
  • attribution theory a theory that explains how we judge people differently depending on the meaning that we attribute to a given behaviourDistinctiveness is whether an indivudal displays different behavior in different situations Consensus is whether others facing a similar situation respond in the same wayConsistency is when a person engages in behaviors regularly and consitently 
  • fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias tendency to underestimate the influence of external facors and to overestimate the influence of internal factors.  self-serving bias is the tendency to attribute our own successes to internal factors and to put the blame for personal failure on external factors.