Impression Management
8 October 2022 What is impression Management? Discuss the 5 strategies of impression Management discussed by Jones & Pittman. Do you think it is necessary for one to have this skill at workspace, discuss with examples. Being social beings, humans interact with other people regularly, consciously or unconsciously making judgements about others from their experiences. First impressions are heavily worked upon at times, accepting the fact that first impressions do tinge the lens one looks at a person in their consequent interactions. Conscious or unconscious management of how others perceive us doesn’t stop with first impressions, rather one is actively engaged in controlling how one is perceived by others. This regulation of the impressions others form of us is referred to as Impression management. Jones and Pitmann have proposed five strategies one employs in Impression management which are, self-promotion, ingratiation, exemplification, intimidation, and supplication. Each of thes...
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