Mindset Matters: How Attitude Shapes Productivity

Abstract

Connection between the mindset of a person and his behavior has a significant importance in his productivity and the
organization’s productivity. This paper shows how the attitude affects the productivity in an organization with the main help of
fixed mindset theory by Carol Dweck. A positive mindset has the belief in the potential for self-improvement, increases creativity,
adaptability, motivation whereas the negative mindset can hinder all these. In this paper it’s been briefly described how all the
factors are related to mindset like ego, perception, and organizational politics affects the productivity of an individual which
affects to the productivity of an organization. Especially it gives the detailed view of perception or how it affects the mindset of a
person and its relationship with the productivity of the person which ultimately affects organization’s productivity. Additionally,
this paper includes how to change the mindset of a person through various strategies that could be followed in the field of
ego, changing the perception, and behavior towards other employees in organization and education system. In this paper the
research has been performed with the help of the data collected from some common people and their behavior is tested by first
evaluating the mindset of the person then analyzing how productive that person is and then finally analyzing how the person can
establish the connection between the productivity and mindset, some statistical tools are used to evaluate the most probable
behavior of a person having the certain mindset.