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convey by their work performance. This leads into distortion management which involved a few different topics, the most common being stereotypes.
Common perpetual distortions include stereotypes or prototypes such as believing every individual from a certain race or religion are all lazy. Halo effects occur when an individual forms an opinion about another because of one certain attribute such as attitude. Selective perception is what occurs when an individual singles out something from another with his own needs in mind. There are few other common distortions that occur which I could go on about forever. Attribution theory and management concern identifying an individual’s performance, for example, with either an outside source, such as a machine or an internal source, such as laziness. The management of such a attributions is not easy but a constant effort must be made to equalize external and internal so as to not give negative feedback automatically when not ...

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