CH3. Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

Cognitive: opinion or belief
Affective: Emotional or feeling segment
Behavioural: the intent to behave a certain way

Evaluative statements (negative or positive) about objects, people. or events

People change what they say, so it doesn't contradict their behavior

Any incompatibility between two or more attitudes or between behavior and attitudes

Importance of the attitude
Correspondence to behavior
Accessibility
Presence of social pressures
Direct experience

Job Satisfaction:a positive feeling about one's job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics

Job Involvement: the degree to which a person identifies with a job, actively participates in it, and considers performace important to self worth

Organizational Committment: the degree to which an employee identifies with an organization and its goals and wishes to maintain a member of the org.

Employee's belief in the degree to which they affect their work environment , their competence, the meaningfulness of their job, and their autonomy in their work

The degree to which employees believe their organization values their contribution and cares about their well being

An employee's involvement with, satisfactions with, and enthusiasm fr the work he or she does
engagement leads to discretionary efforts and a competitive advantage

Bottom line conclusion individuals have about their capabilities, copetence, and worth as a person

(active-destructive) leaving the organization

( Active-Constructive) dissatisfaction expressed through attempts to improve conditions

(Passive-Constructive) dissatisfation expressed by passively waiting for conditions to improve

(Passive-Destructive) Dissatisfaction expressed through allowing conditions to worsen