Pygmalion Effect in Organizations
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Hırlak,
B.
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2023.
Organizational Behavior Concepts and Research-I.
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People tend to reach the level of expectations of other people about themselves and try to achieve the expected performance. This phenomenon, which is described as a pygmalion effect, states that a person's expectation of another person has a strong effect on the behavior of that person. It is seen that the concept is first put forward as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The first research on the fact that a person's expectations had an impact on the behavior of his interlocutor began with Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968). For this reason, the Pygmalion effect has also been named as Rosenthal effect. The concept of the field as a pygmalion effect is mostly used as the positive expectations of the people to create positive changes in others. However, sometimes there are cases where the negative expectations of people over others have negative effects on other people. Therefore, this situation, which leads to the emergence of negative attitudes and behaviors, is called the “Golem Effect”. Studies on the effect of Pygmalion are mostly included in the field of educational psychology. In this section, the studies carried out in the organizations were evaluated based on the idea that employee behaviors change in the axis of executive expectations and adapt to this expectation.
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Copyright (c) 2023 Filiz Demir- Belkıs Dilek Özbezek- Veysel Mehmet Gültekin- Anıl Kale- Deniz Yıldız- Mehmet Selman Kobanoğlu- İbrahim Yalçın- Afet Ayçe Başalp- Gaye Onan- Yasemin Gülbahar- Bilge Güler- Hatice Yurttaş- Bengü Hırlak- Semra Tetik- Murat Ayar- Hilmiye Türesin Tetik- Esra Emül- Arzu Karaca- Buket Sezer- Hüseyin Çiçeklioğlu- Necmettin Gül- Cenk Tufan- Gamze Ebru Çiftçi- Tuğçe Nur Temiz- Şeyda Kaya- Akif Gökçe- İlknur Sayan- Ferhat Varış; Bengü Hırlak