How Do Managers Judge Employees?
Much of the research on perception is directed at inanimate objects. Managers, though, are more concerned with people. Our perceptions of people differ from our perceptions of such inanimate objects as computers, robots, or buildings because we make inferences about the actions of people that we don’t, of course, make about inanimate objects. When we observe people, we attempt to develop explanations of why they behave in certain ways. Our perception and judgment of a person’s actions, therefore, will be significantly influenced by the assumptions we make about the person’s internal state. Many of these assumptions have led researchers to develop attribution theory.
What Is Attribution Theory?
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