Describe the Organization of Prisons and Their Staffs

question 71

Essay

Describe the organization of prisons and their staffs.

Understanding the impact of first impressions on organizational attractiveness.

Identifying and describing different types of rater errors in performance appraisals.

Learning strategies to reduce rater errors and improve performance appraisal accuracy.

Recognizing how personal biases can affect performance appraisal outcomes.

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Definitions:

Scientific Methods

Systematic processes for experimentation and observation used to gather empirical evidence and establish or validate theories and principles.

Possible Selves

Cognitive representations of the kind of people we think we might become some day.

Construe the World

To construe the world means to interpret or understand the world and the events within it through a personal or theoretical lens.

Personal Constructs

Theoretical constructs proposed by George Kelly, suggesting that people develop personal systems of belief that they use to understand and interpret the world around them.