Always when we talk about organizational behavior, organizational culture or national culture, is very important to have in mind that there even when most people of the same culture are very similar and have common characteristics, common beliefs and behave some times in the same way, there are also personal aspects that influence behavior of an individual. Those aspects are the personality, perceptions, attribution, attitudes and values that each individual has and has learned through time, living own experiences, learning from the people he relates to and sharing with people.
Personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this, personality arises from the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. Most of those characteristics are learned through time and they are always affecting or influencing the behavior of any individual.
There are to determinant aspects that influence the “creation” of the personality of an individual: the heredity and the environment.
The personality of an individual is first influenced by the close people he relates with. For example family; Most of the times people that live with their family during his all childhood you can expect that they will behave as the other members of the family, and will adopt some characteristics from each member of the family to himself. In the other hand there are characteristics of the personality that the individual just has and develops during all his life.
In addition perception is always affecting the individuals’ behavior. Perception in few words can be defined as what you think you are, and what you think about the others before getting to know them well. Any situation you are involved in, you will create a perception of what could happen according to how you think you are going to act and how the other persons are going to behave.
All this I said before is to know that when you work with people from your own culture or different culture, is not enough jus knowing the main aspects of the culture. Is necessary to have in mind that there are aspects that make every person different from each other and that you will have to deal with, in order to create a comfortable work environment for everybody. Aspects like values that each individual has and the attitude towards any situation will be always present in any organization and every person must try to understand and comprehend in order to be able to create good and stable relationships at work.
Pygmalion Effect
The Pygmalion effect refers to a situation when you have great expectation on others, you give them great responsibility, and you let them see that a lot of people is expecting a lot from them, they will perform really good and they will feel very committed with their responsibilities, accomplish the mission you gave them, fulfill the objectives
Perception Video: “Don’t judge too quickly”
REFERENCES
• Li, Wen-Dong; Wang, Yong-Li; Taylor, Paul; Shi, Kan; He, Dan. International Journal of Selection & Assessment, Dec2008, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p366-384, 19p, 3 Charts
• http://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1684903.html
• http://www.accomplishlife.com/blogs/8/The-Pygmalion-Effect.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
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