皮格马利翁是古希腊神话里的塞浦路斯国王, 他同时还是一位出色的雕塑家。他爱上了自己精心雕塑的一个少女像,并且真诚地期望自己的爱能被接受。这种真挚的爱情和真切的期望感动了爱神阿芙狄罗忒,于是,爱神就给了雕像生命。这个神话故事在管理心理学中演化成著名的期望效应。即一位有影响力的人物对于某人的由衷赞赏和认可,会极大地提升他的自信心和前进动力,从而使他取得优于一般表现的成绩。在一个组织中,如果管理者向下属明确地表达出期望和赞美,下属会受到有效的激励,真的成为管理者所希望的优秀员工。反之,管理者如果认为下属愚笨懒惰,那么,他的下属也会很敏感地察觉到这种意识,从而容易丧失信心,真的变得不思进取了。通俗地说也就是“说你行,你就行,不行也行!”在管理心理学上,也称为皮格马利翁效应,意思是指积极期望对目标的达到有至关重要的影响。 Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus in ancient Greek mythology, and he is also a brilliant sculptor. He fell in love with a girl sculptured by her, and sincerely hoped his love would be accepted. This kind of sincere love and true expectations touched the god of love Afroot Intuit, so, Eros gave the statue of life. This myth evolved into a well-known expectant effect in management psychology. That is, an influential person’s sincere appreciation and recognition of someone will greatly enhance his self-confidence and motivation, thus enabling him to achieve better results than usual. In an organization, if managers clearly express expectations and compliments to their subordinates, their subordinates will be effectively motivated and truly become excellent employees whom managers expect. On the contrary, if managers think that subordinates are stupid and lazy, then their subordinates will also be very sensitive to perceive this awareness, so easily lose confidence, really become unscrupulous. In other words, “Say you do, you can do it or not.” In management psychology, also known as the Pygmalion effect, it means that positive expectations have a crucial impact on achieving goals.