Organizational
Behavior
Behavior
Attitude,
Behavior
and
Job Satisfaction
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Attitudes
Attitudes
Evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects,
people, or events
Three components of an attitude:
The opinion
or belief
segment of
an attitude
The
emotional or
feeling
segment of
an attitude
An intention to
behave in a
certain way
toward someone
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Attitudes
Attitudes Defined
Defined
Briefly defined, an attitude represents a
predisposition to respond in a favorable or
unfavorable way to persons or objects in
ones environment.
For instance, when we say we like
something or dislike something, we are in
effect expressing an attitude toward the
person or object.
What are some examples of people or things
that you may have strong attitudes about?
Attitudes:
Attitudes: Three
Three Important
Important
Assumptions
Assumptions
Components of Attitude
Cognitive
Opinion
Affective
Feeling
Behavior
Intention to behave
Sources of attitude
Teachers
Parents
Attitude
Friends
Living
Conditions
Popular person
Types of Attitude
Attitude
Positive
Negative
Job satisfaction
Organizational
Commitment
Psychological
Empowerment
Job involvement
Perceived Organizational Support (POS)
Employee Engagement
Relation between
Attitude & Behavior
Attitude
Output
Behavior
Work/Relation
Effects of attitude
Low productivity
Indiscipline
Poor Quality of work
Bad relations
Bad Career
Industrial Dispute
Ways
Ways of
of Changing
Changing
Attitudes
Attitudes
1. Providing New Information : New information will help
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Cont
3. Influence of Friends or Peers : Change of attitude
can come about through persuasion of friends or peers.
Credibility of the others, especially peers, is important
to effect change. Peers with high creditability shall
exercise significant influence on change. The same is
not true with peers who have low credibility.
4. The Co-opting Approach : Co-opting is another way
of changing attitude. This means taking people who are
dissatisfied with a situation and getting them involved
in improving things.
5. Others: Research has shown that an individual is
more likely to change a privately held attitude than one
he has stated publicly. It is, therefore, necessary that a
situation is avoided where the individual makes his
attitude public prior to change attempt.
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Does
Does Behavior
Behavior Always
Always Follow
Follow from
from
Attitudes?
Attitudes?
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Moderating
Moderating Variables
Variables
The most powerful moderators of the attitudebehavior relationship are:
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Predicting
Predicting Behavior
Behavior from
from Attitudes
Attitudes
Important attitudes have a strong relationship to
behavior.
The closer the match between attitude and
behavior, the stronger the relationship:
Specific attitudes predict specific behavior
General attitudes predict general behavior
The more frequently expressed an attitude, the
better predictor it is.
High social pressures reduce the relationship and
may cause dissonance.
Attitudes based on personal experience are
stronger predictors.
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What
What are
are the
the Major
Major Job
Job Attitudes?
Attitudes?
Job Satisfaction
A positive feeling about the job
resulting from an evaluation of its
characteristics
Job Involvement
Degree of psychological identification
with the job where perceived
performance is important to selfworth
Psychological Empowerment
Belief in the degree of influence over
the job, competence, job
meaningfulness, and autonomy
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Another
Another Major
Major Job
Job Attitude
Attitude
Organizational Commitment
Identifying with a particular organization and its goals, while
wishing to maintain membership in the organization.
Three dimensions:
Affective emotional attachment to organization
Continuance Commitment economic value of staying
Normative moral or ethical obligations
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And
And Yet
Yet More
More Major
Major Job
Job Attitudes
Attitudes
Perceived Organizational Support (POS)
Degree to which employees believe the organization values
their contribution and cares about their well-being.
Higher when rewards are fair, employees are involved in
decision making, and supervisors are seen as supportive.
High POS is related to higher OCBs and performance.
Employee Engagement
The degree of involvement with, satisfaction with, and
enthusiasm for the job.
Engaged employees are passionate about their work and
company.
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Are
Are These
These Job
Job Attitudes
Attitudes Really
Really
Distinct?
Distinct?
No: these attitudes are
highly related.
Variables may be
redundant (measuring
the same thing under a
different name)
While there is some
distinction, there is also
a lot of overlap.
Be patient, OB researchers are working on it!
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Job
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction
One of the primary job attitudes measured.
Broad term involving a complex individual summation of a
number of discrete job elements.
How to measure?
Single global rating (one question/one answer) - Best
Summation score (many questions/one average) - OK
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Measuring
Measuring Job
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Single Global Rating Method
Only a few general questions
Remarkably accurate
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Factors
Factors influencing
influencing job
job satisfaction
satisfaction
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Causes
Causes of
of Job
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Pay influences job satisfaction only to a point.
After about $40,000 per year (in the U.S.), there is no
relationship between amount of pay and job satisfaction.
Money may bring happiness, but not necessarily job
satisfaction.
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Employee
Employee Responses
Responses to
to
Dissatisfaction
Dissatisfaction Active
Destructive
Constructive
Passive
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Outcomes
Outcomes of
of Job
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Job Performance
Satisfied workers are more productive AND more
productive workers are more satisfied!
The causality may run both ways.
Customer Satisfaction
Satisfied frontline employees increase customer
satisfaction and loyalty.
Absenteeism
Satisfied employees are moderately less likely to miss
work.
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More
More Outcomes
Outcomes of
of Job
Job Satisfaction
Satisfaction
Turnover
Satisfied employees are less likely to quit.
Many moderating variables in this relationship.
Economic environment and tenure
Organizational actions taken to retain high performers and to
weed out lower performers
Workplace Deviance
Dissatisfied workers are more likely to unionize, abuse
substances, steal, be tardy, and withdraw.
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Global
Global Implications
Implications
Is Job Satisfaction a U.S. Concept?
No, but most of the research so far has been in the U.S.
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Summary
Summary and
and Managerial
Managerial
Implications
Implications
Managers should watch employee attitudes:
They give warnings of potential problems
They influence behavior
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How
How Can
Can You
You Be
Be Happier
Happier at
at
Work?
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