Explain what the fundamental attribution error is,and give an example.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to underestimate the influence of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of personal factors in evaluating someone else's behavior.This error causes the perceiver to ignore important environmental factors that often significantly affect another person's behavior.In organizations,employees may assign blame to other departments or individuals and fail to recognize the effect of the situation.For example,a CEO might attribute a high level of political behavior on the part of her vice presidents to aspects of their personalities,not recognizing that competition for scarce resources is causing much of the political behavior.