Answer to Question #260532 in Management for ndk

Question

Is perception management applicable in current times when we are working from home virtually and not interacting personally with our coworkers and managers? Rationalize your opinion with steps and measures that help you manage the process.

Answer 1

No, perception management requires employees and managers to be close to ensure that massages shared in an organization are understood and achieve the desired influence on the intended audiences. It is difficult in the current virtual workplace to achieve perception management because employees or managers are in different environments facing different changes and workloads, making it difficult to determine how each employee group perceives or interprets a given message. Psychological aspects of workplace operation serve a critical role in perception management; it is, however, difficult to determine the emotional response to some massages within a virtual workspace.