lunes, 7 de marzo de 2011

PERSONALITY, PERCEPTION AND ATRIBUTION; ATTITUDES AND VALUES


These topics are very important to analyze in the context of organizational behavior, because depends on these three characteristics of people, that each person is going to behave some way or another.
According to the dictionary, Personality “Is a relatively stable set of characteristics that influences an individual's behavior”. This concept of personality is a little bit short because the topic of personality has a lot of concepts that we have to know to understand human behavior, in our hand book, the author explain the characteristics of persons in 5 traits theories, it means 5 kind of personalities, those are: Extraversion (the one who is very active and cero timid), Agreeableness (the person that want to cooperate all the time), Conscientiousness (a very hardworking person), Emotional Stability (a very calm person in which people thrust in), Openness to Experience (the one who is creative and curious).

Another important key point is the PERCEPTION of a person that is defined as “the process by which individuals recognize, select and interpret sensory input.”1.  It means what you can identify from another person. But as well everybody has a lot of skills to perceive someone personality, there are a lot of barriers of social perception, those are: stereotyping, first impression error, projection, self-fulfilling prophecies, and selective perception, these barriers may you be wrong when you met someone or something and you would make a lot of mistakes in your organization.
Attribution is another topic that is important to understand human behavior, humans’ attributions are such proprieties or characteristics of the identity of a person, there are internal and external attributions.

Attitudes and Values are other characteristics that in an organization you need to focus in, because through attitudes, workers can show the satisfaction or not on their workplace; if they are comfortable, they can have good atiitudes, therefore, they would show better outputs, and if they are not, it’s obviously what is going to be the workplace outputs. That’s why it’s said that the performance of the enterprises. 

And values are also very important to take into account, because you must put a homework for each worker according on his value; some of the work values must be: achievement, concern for others, honesty, fairness.




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QUESTION:


What is your perception of a Japanese aid worker before and after the talk with Yasuko? On what do you base your perception?
I think JICA is a good organization that I had never listened about, previously the conference with the Japanese Yasuko, about the job that she realized in Colombia with the help of Japanese government, I thought that Japan didn’t pay too much attention about our educational system, off course I knew that Colombia received a lot of help of the Asians governments, but I thought that this help was more economically or military aids, but I didn’t know about the interest of the government of Japan on Colombian and other countries educational progress, that with JICA’s aids, they lend support to developing countries to help them increase the educational system. My previous perception was based on the news you can heard about military and economic aids that developing countries received by countries like Japan, you rarely heard about these important aids. You just heard about huge and big aids that involves huge amounts of money, but these social aids are not as well  as mentioned as the firestones.




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