Assignment: Perception and Decision Making

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People’s perceptions help define their viewpoints. Perception comes to people through their senses. Perception means “the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.” (Dictionary.com). From a different perspective, perception means organizing, understanding, receiving, and selecting information that can sometimes result in a disagreement. People that view things from their own perspective has the highest potential of things leading to a disagreement, because different viewpoints has a lot of different perspectives on how stuff should be accomplished. It is pretty much inevitable, within an organization, that the employees will not always be content and agree with their views of behavior, job tasks, working conditions, benefits, and pay rates. The aspects of perception has to do with how certain tasks and information is selected, understood, and organized. These are all the decision making faculties and they drastically differ from one to another.

With the current research beginning, it has begun to support the theory called “active perception”. Within this theory, a dynamic relationship exists between the perceptions of the senses, the surrounding environment, and the brain. Academics have really supported the theory called “passive perception”. The “passive perception” theory has a view of perception where a stimulus is in the environment that is processed by the brain after it is registered by the senses which results with an output response.

Relationships and behaviors in the organizational setting are affected by a person’s perceptions and how individuals interact within a business. A manager may have a bigger concern for the company’s stakeholders and it can react a lot differently than a worker who does not have the same concern as the