This document discusses factors that influence perception. It describes perception as how individuals organize and interpret sensory impressions to understand their environment. There are several perceiver characteristics, attitudes, motives, interests, experiences, learning, personality, and external factors that shape perception. The organizational structure and workplace can also impact perception. Perception depends on the individual and their unique characteristics, so it differs across people.

1. Perception

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3. DEFINITION
A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to
their environment.

4. Components of perception
stimuli perception
Behaviour
personality
motives
learning
performancesatistifaction

5. Factors influence the perception
Perceiver characteristic:
• Perception depends on how individual view the
objects and situation.
• The perception is not reality ,but it is a viewing of the
reality which differ from person to person according
to respective characteristic.

6. Attitude
• Attitude and aptitude of employees influence in
perception formation.
• If they have positive attitude towards the
management they directly perceive the stimuli given
by management.
• In case of negative attitude the employees suspect the
management’s approach.

7. Motives
• The motives and desires of employees cause them to
view stimuli differently as per their level and angle .
• Employees having low motives will not work
sincerely.
• Motives are reflect in action based on perception.

8. Interest
• The interest of the individuals draws more attention
and recognition to stimuli.
• If employees have lack of interest behavior patterns
also less effective and perception is also weak.
• Since individuals interest are vary from person to
person ,the perception is also differ.

9. Experience
• The experiments of employees result in different
levels of perception.
• Experience employees generally understand objects
quickly and correctly.

10. Learning
• Learning is an important factor influencing
perception formation.
• Educated person have higher perception then the less
educated persons.

11. personality
• Personality has different levels of perception .
• The personality of a perceiving person considerably
affect the stimuli transformation behavior process.
• Young people perceive objects and situations in the
original form .experienced persons perceive the
object as per their personality levels.

12. External factors
The following are external factors that
influence perception.
Size
Contrast
Repetition
Motion
Familiarity

13. size
• The size of the object or stimulus has a greater impact
on the perception process because the size influence
attention and recognition more effective manner.

14. Contrast
• Contrasting objects have more impact on behavior
employees pay more attention and recognition to
contrasting objects and situations.

15. Repetition
• Repeated stimuli have more impact on perfomances
than a single statement.
• Repetition has the advantage of being attention-
catching.
• Supervisors repeat orders several times to have them
followed by employees.

16. Motion
• People pay more attention to the moving objects then
to stationary objects this is just impact of eyes on the
mind.
• Employees are more attentive towards working
machines then stationary machines.

17. Familiarity
• Employees would like to hear and see those programs
with which they are familiar.
• Training programs demonstrated in the language of
employees are highly attended and recognized.

18. Organisational structure
• The perceptual process is influenced by the
organizational structure and process.
• The perceptual structure, perceptual grouping,
constancy, context, defense, work place and process
have been recognized as important factors influencing
the perceptual process.

19. Perceptual structure
• The organizational structure influences the perception
of employees and other people related to the
organizational.
• The departmentalization, decentralization, delegation
of authority and other structural frameworks have
important bearings in the mind of employees.
• If the structure is viewed positively by the employees,
they willingly contribute to the development of the
organization.

20. Perceptual work place
• The perceptual process is affected by the workplace
too.
• Perceptual process is different for different
employees.
• Some people have positive perception while other
develop negative perception of the workplace.

21. Stereotyping effect
• Stereotype judgment is base on ideal situation or type
of impression formed about the group.
• If an employees is found well behaved ,the whole
group is considered as good.

22. Halo effect
• Halo effect occurs only when a single factor is taken
for performance evaluation or perception with the
process ignoring other important consideration.