Ethics: The Role Of Perception In The Workplace

Perception

It has long been said that perception is reality, and in many ways it is. Perception is about what we take in and what we make out of it. The study of Perception is concerned with describing the way people see, organize and interpret sensory information in order to make sense of the world around us. People’s perceptions influence how they behave in their organization. Correct perception allows employees to understand effectively what they see and hear in the workplace in order to make decisions, complete all kinds of tasks and act in an ethical manner. Wrong perceptions lead to problems in the organizations, such as stereotyping, leading people into making wrong assumptions.

Perception makes use of our five senses i.e. touch, sight,

Extrasensory perception or ESP includes receiving information not gained through the physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy (thought transference between persons), clairaudience (taking in what is inaudible), and clairvoyance (supernormal awareness of objects or events), and precognition (knowledge of the future). Also sometimes referred to as the sixth sense, the term implies acquisition of information by means external to the basic limiting assumptions of science or in simple terms paranormal

The most accepted results are all small to moderate statistically significant results. Critics may dispute the positive interpretation of results obtained in scientific studies of ESP, as being difficult to reproduce reliably, and are small in effect. Parapsychologists have argued that the data from numerous studies show that certain individuals have consistently produced remarkable results while the remainder are a highly significant trend that cannot be dismissed even if the effect is small.

Scepticism:

Among scientists in the National Academy of Sciences, 96% were sceptical of ESP while the rest 4% believed in psi. Among all scientists surveyed, 10% felt that parapsychological research should be encouraged. The National Academy of Sciences had previously sponsored the Enhancing Human Performance report on mental development programs, which was critical of parapsychology. Sceptics claim that there is a lack of a viable theory of the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological