http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2009-11/attributions-the-fundamental-attribution-error-and-the-self-serving-bias/ Leadership, followership, and purpose at work Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2009-11/attributions-the-fundamental-attribution-error-and-the-self-serving-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Bret L. Simmons Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:53:38 +0000 http://www.bretlsimmons.com/?p=1849#comment-1863 You are correct, Sharon. Your friend could not see the bias if it hit her over the head. Very powerful. People only change when they are willing. Thanks for sharing!! Bret You are correct, Sharon. Your friend could not see the bias if it hit her over the head. Very powerful. People only change when they are willing. Thanks for sharing!! Bret

]]> http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2009-11/attributions-the-fundamental-attribution-error-and-the-self-serving-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Sharon Markovsky Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:13:54 +0000 http://www.bretlsimmons.com/?p=1849#comment-1862 Bret, This post is so very timely. I have been speaking with a old co-worker that has had to pick up some management duties in her department. She talked at length about the "bad attitude" of her co-worker. Once I heard that...red flag. I asked her if it could be that her co-worker's increasingly "bad attitude" could possibly be due to the fact that the system (way they do things in the department) changed dramatically recently. Her response... "Nope, just a bad attitude." I got off the phone feeling very sad for that department and for me wasting time trying to make her see her attribution error. As you can imagine, there is also a huge amount of self serving bias on going there as well. My former co-worker, for whom I have alot of respect, just doesn't get it. Bret,
This post is so very timely. I have been speaking with a old co-worker that has had to pick up some management duties in her department. She talked at length about the “bad attitude” of her co-worker. Once I heard that…red flag. I asked her if it could be that her co-worker’s increasingly “bad attitude” could possibly be due to the fact that the system (way they do things in the department) changed dramatically recently. Her response… “Nope, just a bad attitude.” I got off the phone feeling very sad for that department and for me wasting time trying to make her see her attribution error. As you can imagine, there is also a huge amount of self serving bias on going there as well. My former co-worker, for whom I have alot of respect, just doesn’t get it.

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