Selective Perception Case Study

Perception is a process of classifying, interpreting and giving meaning to what is happening and what we see around us. Besides that, it also is a process that making a perception or judgment just based on what the information that they received. Perception is also called as percepio, a Latin word, it is defined as an organization or interpretation of the information received to understand the environment around us.

The 5 human senses are used to receiving the information. The 5 human senses stand for a major role to cause in perception that made by individual. In the case above, Salmah feel and she thinks that her manager would like to promote male to be top in the company rather than female. Furthermore, she hear that

One single perspective will lead to biased selection of outcome. We cannot observe everything going on about us and we engage in selective perception. Based on the cases above, the manager has selective perception because of only choose male to be promoted and maybe he thinks that male can work better than female. The selection is biased toward individual characteristics which would influence perception by their past experiences, their motivation level and motivation drivers, attitudes, and also individual personality. Ahmad is her manager’s good friend and he choose Ahmad to be promoted that is why Salmah feel that her manager has selective perception because of he perceives the people that is closed to him. On the other hand, perception bias happen when perceiver’s beliefs affect their assessment. For example, a perception bias has happen when an employer thinks that male employee can perform better than female employee. By recognize this biases happen, the perceiver’s have to limit the errors of perceiving. Based on the case above, Salmah did the wrong perception towards her manager’s decision because her manager has promoted Ahmad instead of her. This situation can involve to the errors of halo effect in making the perception towards Ahmad. Salmah think that Ahmad’s skill and performance are not as good as her and

It can help people to have more careful in detect biases in the perception that they made. Actually, most of the perception that we had made is affected by our mindset and the things that around us. In order to minimize the errors, it must concern of the factor that cause wrong perception. Besides that, knowing ourselves is the method to minimize the wrong perception and raising the accuracy of perception towards other people. Based on the case above, Salmah think that Ahmad’s skill and performance is not as good as hers and it makes her think negatively about her manager’s choices. Yet, she does not be aware of her actual performance is it good than Ahmad’s performance. To raising the accuracy that cause to negative perception toward her manager’s decision, she should know herself by get some feedback or opinion from her colleague before making any decision. By having self-awareness could help her to know better about herself and help to avoid from making wrong