Cra Ethics

A 1. How Joe could address the importance of understanding how people form perceptions and make attributions about others with his employees?

Employees are exposed to lot of information from their coworkers. The information getting from the coworkers can be different from your personal experience. Some people process those information gained from their coworkers and try to implement in their life. There are mainly two important factors that could influence an individual: External factor and internal factor.

External factors can come from a variety of perceptions. The majority of people looks at Size, Contrast, Motion, Repetition. In size, people care about the how big the object is. In Intensity they look for loud noises. And also external factors come more from culture rather than personal observations (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011). Internal factors are factors that influence what the individual sees. Three types of internal factors that affect what a person perceives are: (a) Personality, (b) Learning and (c) Motivation.

Person Perception is the process by which an individual attributes characteristics to other people. Many people perceive information based on other people point of view. It could cause a big damage. When you do a pre-judgment about a person, the damage is already done and it shouldn’t happen. To prevent such pre-judgments, the individual should understand the cause of the outcomes and point of views of others. This is called the attribution process. (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011)

2. Choose which learning theory will be most appropriate for Joe to apply in this situation and explain the reasons why this theory was selected?

In Joe’s situation with his employees, the most appropriate learning theory would be the conditioning learning theory. Conditioning learning theory is a way of learning that gets through punishments when they don’t perform well and rewarding with prizes when they does perform. It is also called instrumental...