Attitude and Job Satisfaction

What is attitude?

• a relatively enduring organization of beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or symbols".

• a relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience

• a quality or characteristic that someone or something has

ABC components of attitude are

• affective, behavioral and cognitive

• adversity, belief and consequences

• affective behavioral consequences

Affective refers to

• feelings and emotions

• actions

• beliefs

Attitudes are formed through

• experience

• social factors

• learning

• Observation

• all of the above

Cognitive Dissonance refers to

• Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors.

• equilibrium in thoughts , skills and action

What an individual who have positive attitude will pay attention to?

• Does it remind you of someone

• ignore the good and pay attention to the bad in people, situations, events, etc.

• he will pay attention to the good rather than bad in people.

• when a guy has so much power, wealth, and influences with great luck

What an individual who have negative attitude will pay attention to?

• people with negative attitude will ignore the good and pay attention to the bad.

• will pay attention to the good, rather than bad in people, situations, events.

• when you are having a very bad run of luck but you still say “Good Morning” rather than “What’s so good about this morning”.

Job satisfaction is

• how motivated you are to work

• the general attitude that people have towards job

• how inspired you are to work

• no true answer

Which of the following is most likely to be related to reduced absences and lower resignation rates?

• high job involvement

• high cognitive dissonance

• low psychological empowerment

• low organizational commitment

• high emotional contagion

The two types of attitudes

• Bad/Good
• Positive/ Bad
• Positive/ Negative
• Negative/Good