Error In Judgement Essay

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One common error in judgement is stereotypes(Bethel University, 2013). Stereotypes are judgements and overgeneralizations held by a person or a group about members of another group(Bethel University, 2013). Everybody is not the same, all people have their own unique differences. I personally have to remember this on a daily basis, with my team of sales people I lead at work. Each one of my team members responds to information I give them in a different way. I have developed a system, to reach each of them in their own way to better our communication as a group. Another error in judgement is making snap judgements(Bethel University, 2013). Snap judgements are decisions made before all necessary information or facts are gathered(Bethel …show more content…

We have a system that my employees are able to clock in for the day on their IPhone, and it sends a message to my IPad that they have started their day. If they are late, it adds a quarter of a point to their attendance policy for the year. Every morning I go through and check times, and add points as necessary. Seeing that this employee still had not clocked in I added the quarter of a point to his record. The next day in our weekly sales meeting, I passed out everyone’s attendance record, and the employee questioned me why he had received the quarter point. I explained he was late the day before, he then proceeded to tell me he was not, he had been on time and had screen shots of his time card saved to his phone. After reviewing the pictures and doing some follow up on the problem I learned from our IT department that there had been an issue with numerous phones that day, the employees clocked in as they should, the system just not register it. So after gathering all information and apologizing to my employee for my mistake, I removed the quarter of a point from his record. Another error in judgement is projection(Bethel University, 2013). Projection is the tendency to attribute to others some of our own traits in an attempt to justify our own faulty judgements or actions(Bethel University,

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