Role perception
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Role perception is a .
Definitions
According to Organizational Behavior by Robbins and Judge (17th edition),
- Role perception. An individual's view of how he or she is supposed to act in a given situation.
- Role expectations. How others believe a person should act in a given situation.
- Psychological contract. An unwritten agreement that sets out what management expects from an employee and vice versa.
- Role conflict. A situation in which an individual is confronted by divergent role expectations.
- Interrole conflict. A situation in which the expectations of an individual's different, separate groups are in opposition.
- Norm. An acceptable standard of behavior within a group that is shared by the group's members.
- Conformity. The adjustment of one's behavior to align with the norms of the group.
- Reference group. An important group to which individuals belong or hope to belong and with whose norms individuals are likely to conform.
- Deviant workplace behavior (also known as antisocial behavior or workplace incivility). Voluntary behavior that violates significant organizational norms and, in so doing, threatens the well-being of the organization or its members.
- Status. A socially defined position or rank given to groups or group members by others.
- Status characteristics theory. A theory that states that differences in status characteristics create status hierarchies within groups.
- Social loafing. The tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually.
- Cohesiveness. The degree to which group members are attracted to each other and are motivated to stay in the group.
- Faultiness. The perceived divisions that split groups into two or more subgroups based on individual differences such as sex, race, age, work experience, and education.
- Groupthink. A phenomenon in which the norm for consensus overrides the realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.
- Groupshift. A change between a group's decision and individual decision that a member within the group would make; the shift can be toward either conservatism or greater risk but it generally is toward a more extreme version of the group's original position.
- Interacting group. A typical group in which members interact with each other face to face.
- Brainstorming. An idea-generation process that specifically encourages any and all alternatives while withholding any criticism of those alternatives.
- Nominal group technique. A group decision-making method in which individual members meet face to face to pool their judgments in a systematic but independent fashion.
- Group cohesion. The extend to which members of a group support and validate one another while at work.
- Group functioning. The quantity and quality of a group's work output.
- Workgroup. A group that interacts primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility.
