Galatea effect
The Galatea Effect is a sub-category of the Pygmalion Effect . This delimitation can be traced back to Dov Eden , who dealt with the transfer of the Pygmalion effect to the operational context. He assumed that the expectations that managers have about their employees strongly influence their performance and progress. In addition, an effect of the expectations of the superiors on the expectations of the employees regarding their own skills can be found. If the superior has positive expectations, the expectation of self-efficacy increases . This is known as the Galatea Effect. In contrast to the Pygmalion effect, the focus here is on your own expectations and not your own performance or the expectations of your superior. A Galatea effect is also conceivable without a Pygmalion effect (by increasing employees' expectations of themselves.)
The name goes back to the Pygmalion saga of Greek mythology, in which the sculptor Pygmalion creates an ivory figure named Galatea , who later comes to life and with which he falls in love.
Golem effect
A negative variant of the Galatea effect is the golem effect , which says that the negative expectations of an authority figure (e.g. supervisor or teacher) lead to a reduced expectation of the subordinate person and thus the performance and greatly impaired progress. The effect was named after the mythical figure Golem , who was actually created in Jewish mythology to serve as a protector, but then became more corrupt and violent and therefore had to be destroyed and is compared in theory with a self-fulfilling prophecy .
literature
- Dov Eden: Pygmalion in Management: Productivity as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. In: The Academy of Management Review. Volume 16, 1991. pp. 209-212
Individual evidence
- ↑ Good expectations lead to good performance: the Pygmalion effect in organizations | wissensdialoge.de . In: wissensdialoge.de . November 11, 2014 ( wissensdialoge.de [accessed February 20, 2018]).
- ↑ Tanja Walter: Pygmalion Effect: What makes wrong expectations with children. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
- ^ Elisha Y. Babad, Jacinto Inbar, Robert Rosenthal: Pygmalion, Galatea, and the Golem: Investigations of biased and unbiased teachers. In: Journal of Educational Psychology . tape 74 , no. 4 , 1982, pp. 459-474 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-0663.74.4.459 .