domingo, 5 de septiembre de 2010

Pygmalion Effect

This next task is about the pygmalion effect, for those that didn't, pygmalion effect is where a person put an expectation on someone and this person fullfill the expectation. one example we can find it in this Page,
where a teacher put the expectations in a student, and by do it that, the teacher push more harder in his learning getting him to a better development of his skills, and fullfiling the prophecy of his teacher.

but there is also a bad side, in the managerial aspect , when the boss gets a phygmalion effect in a certain worker, and this one achieved little goals, but the manager gets excited and reward him for little advance.


Bibliography
Takao Inamori, Farhad Analoui, "Beyond Pygmalion effect: the role of managerial perception", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 29 Iss: 4, pp.306 – 321. 
Rosenthal,R. & Jacobson,L. (1968, 1992) Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development (Irvington publishers: New York)
 

1 comentario:

sebastian dijo...

I like your point of view about what if the manager starts giving rewards for just little advances, but i think in most of real cases people do not reward little advances so this will make the people work really hard in order to achieve the goals.