THE PYGMALION EFFECT

The pygmalion effect is a phenomenon that acts in the workplace, the school, social and familiar leves in an individual. making it more productive or less productive as well. Acting in the mind of an individual making it believe the facility to reach any goal.

• A person reaches the goal that was previously implanted because of his believes and the idea of being able to reach it, totally convinced of achieved it.
• "When teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways." (Rosenthal y Jacobson).

Possitive Effect: It has a possitive effect if the person increases its self - confidence and has as results good conclutions and solutions.

Negative Effect: It has a negative effect if the person decreases its Self- confidence and develop bad results and a weak solution.

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Organizational Behaviour

INDIVIDUALISM VS COLLECTIVISM

There are two topics in witch many cultures are defined by their level of collectivism or individualism. This topics are totally different and each one have their own characteristics. In individualist cultures, people are expected to develop and display their individual personalities and to choose their own affiliations. In collectivist cultures, people are defined and act mostly as a member of a long-term group, such as the family, a religious group, an age cohort, a town, or a profession, among others.

The nations who are more individual, tend to be self- centered and their idea is to reach their personal goals. In order to their enviroment they prefer to use"i" such as the main individual to solve a problem. People in individualistic cultures emphasize their success/achievements in job or private wealth and aiming up to reach more and/or a better job position.

The nations that belong more to the collectivism characteristic, usually solve their problems having diferent opinions, forming a team. They prefer to use "we" in order to be more effective and productive. They are more willing to receive different points of view for any issue, their level of comprenhension and sharing with other people are higher.




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