IOP3073 Assignment 1 2014 V2
Contents
Introduction 3
Question 1 3
1.1 The powers of perception 3
1.2 The Ladder of Inference 4
Question 2 5
2.1 Stephen Covey: Principle-centred people 5
Questtion 3 7
3.1 Labour factors that influence organisations and matters such as employment in South Africa 7
Question 4 9
4.1 Types of possible opportunities available to an individual within the four core domains of partagogy. 9
Conclusion 10
Refrences 11
Introduction
An in depth understanding of the power of perception will clearly provide you with an extremely enlightening and empowering level of self-awareness of whom and what you truly are. The power that's been provided to you to create a quality of life based on choices and that you are without exception through various opportunities the co-creator of your reality.
Question 1
1.1 The powers of perception
Robbins, Judge, Odendaal and Roodt (2009) define perception as a process by which individuals organise and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
In other words, perception is the way we "see" the world -- not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms of perceiving, understanding, and interpreting.
Covey (1989) demonstrates how perception affects the way we see things, the way we think and the way we act in an exercise he encountered many years ago at the Harvard Business School. The instructor divided students into two groups; the one group was given a picture of a young woman (Figure 1.1) and the second group a picture of an old woman (Figure 1.2). After giving each group 10 seconds to study their picture carefully, he projected the combined picture onto a screen (Figure 1.3). Each group saw the respective image they were initially given. This activity clearly and eloquently demonstrates how conditioning effects our perceptions and frames of reference, that two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right.
Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2
Introduction 3
Question 1 3
1.1 The powers of perception 3
1.2 The Ladder of Inference 4
Question 2 5
2.1 Stephen Covey: Principle-centred people 5
Questtion 3 7
3.1 Labour factors that influence organisations and matters such as employment in South Africa 7
Question 4 9
4.1 Types of possible opportunities available to an individual within the four core domains of partagogy. 9
Conclusion 10
Refrences 11
Introduction
An in depth understanding of the power of perception will clearly provide you with an extremely enlightening and empowering level of self-awareness of whom and what you truly are. The power that's been provided to you to create a quality of life based on choices and that you are without exception through various opportunities the co-creator of your reality.
Question 1
1.1 The powers of perception
Robbins, Judge, Odendaal and Roodt (2009) define perception as a process by which individuals organise and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
In other words, perception is the way we "see" the world -- not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms of perceiving, understanding, and interpreting.
Covey (1989) demonstrates how perception affects the way we see things, the way we think and the way we act in an exercise he encountered many years ago at the Harvard Business School. The instructor divided students into two groups; the one group was given a picture of a young woman (Figure 1.1) and the second group a picture of an old woman (Figure 1.2). After giving each group 10 seconds to study their picture carefully, he projected the combined picture onto a screen (Figure 1.3). Each group saw the respective image they were initially given. This activity clearly and eloquently demonstrates how conditioning effects our perceptions and frames of reference, that two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right.
Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2