Pygmalion effect

Sort By:
Page 1 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Better Essays

    Pygmalion Effect in Management Principles of Management Abstract The Pygmalion Effect in Management is the idea that workers are more productive when being watched by members of management. Workers are eager to please bosses, or appear competent, so productivity and rule following increases when a member of management is present. Your expectations of people and their expectations of themselves are the key factors in how well people perform at work. Pygmalion Effect in Management The Pygmalion Effect

    • 2129 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    understanding of this “Pygmalion Effect” to create a powerful learning environment. Uses and Consequences

    • 1092 Words
    • 5 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Managers or coaches should know that sometimes their expectations can be formed by the Halo effect (a psychological phenomenon that allows a general opinion of someone, to be gathered from only one element). Despite the fact that influence of the Halo effect, as well as any other perceptual effect, can have both negative and positive consequences, initial elimination of them will do managers more objective. The race, gender, age, educational level and class biases, which are rooted in stereotypes

    • 1693 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The First Night Of Class

    • 2056 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope I did well on my Pygmalion Myth and Cave of Forgotten Dreams assignments. I liked the Pygmalion myth; I thought it was sweet and beautiful. I enjoyed visualizing him happy and madly in love with his perfect woman. I think that it’s a little off that he literally had to create her, but hey…to each his own I suppose. Out of the different versions of the myth, I read that basically there were three flames of fire that Pygmalion saw at Aphrodite’s festival. I wonder what was

    • 2056 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Pygmalion effect is an interesting phenomenon that may be significant to modern organizations. This paper will briefly consider many aspect of the Pygmalion effect, and will begin with a comparison of the management style of Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs and the concept of the Pygmalion effect. Next, the Pygmalion effect will be discussed as it relates to other leadership styles, along with benefits and limitations. Recommendations for new managers on balancing the benefits of the Pygmalion effect

    • 1545 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    into the prom queen. “Given the right look, the right boyfriend, bam! In six weeks she’s the one being crowned prom queen.” The girl picked for this bet is an art nerd, Lainey. She’s All That is a great example of a movie showing the “Pygmalion effect”. This effect is the idea that simply expecting something to happen can actually make it happen. After Lainey has been chosen as the girl for the bet, Zach tries to approach her for the first time while at school. Lainey completely blows him off and

    • 927 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pygmalion Essay

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited

    Pygmalion An interpretation of Class Relations in Pygmalion In Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, there is a distinct variance in class relations and the way that early 20th century Britains were perceived as being different by their speech, money, wealth, style, manners, and appearance. Being a lady or a gentleman was an acquired status desirable among most of London’s society. However, in Pygmalion, Shaw tells a story about the transition of a homeless young woman with the aspiration to become a

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages
    • 4 Works Cited
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    A Fairy-Tale Character in My Fair Lady Warner Brothers’ My Fair Lady (1964) a film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion has been seen as a success in terms of box-office profits and popularity of the work. In it, the protagonist Eliza Doolittle’s is portrayed as a Cinderella-like figure: In a short span of time, she rises from a humble family to become a well-mannered lady. It offers “a fairy-tale story” Paul Bauschatz says that is “bound to please most viewers, while retaining its potential

    • 1726 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Adaptations of Shaw’s Pygmalion (1914)   Table of Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Changes of Prof. Higgins in the Three Adaptations 3 2.1 Cast and the Appearance 3 2.2 Passion for Phonetics 5 2.3 Personality 6 2.4 Use of Bad Language 7 3. Conclusion 7 References 9 1. Introduction The adaptations of George Bernard Shaw’s drama Pygmalion (1914) have been a successful classical collection in the world. Somehow people forget that the important character as well as the real pygmalion is Prof. Henry Higgins

    • 1276 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MOVIE MY FAIR LADY IN THE STUDY OF LINGUISTICS: AN ANALYSIS SREYA SUSAN CHACKO Register No: MM033 Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Communication and Journalism(Triple Main), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala Abstract: “A language is a system of conventional

    • 2758 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Better Essays
Previous
Page12345678950