January 4, 2013 in Motivating Start by believing in your people
and they will believe in that. Expect the best and guess what
you get? The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to
the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon
people the better they perform. The effect is named after
Pygmalion, a Cypriot sculptor in a narrative by Ovid in Greek
mythology, who fell in love with a female statue he had carved
out of ivory. The Pygmalion effect is a form of self-fulfilling
prophecy, and, in this respect, people with poor expectations
internalize their negative label, and those with positive labels
succeed accordingly. Every person has talent and as a manager it
is your job to match the right talent with the right job. Sadly
many employees are not cast in the best roles and do not get to
do what they do best everyday. Sometime you have to recast a
team members role. February 28, 2010 in History of Motivation
Elton Mayo (1880 – 1949) discovered that workers were not just
concerned with pay