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Job Attitude
Attitude: statements whether an item or a place or a person or event is favorable or
unfavorable.
Components of Attitude:
1- Cognitive: based on opinion, facts,
and beliefs.
2- Affective: based on emotions.
3- Behavioral: based on actions or
behavior.
How to Measure Attitude?
By looking at people’s behavior.
Self-Perception Theory:
Attitudes are used after the fact to make sense out of an action that has already
occurred.
Used when Attitudes are vague and ambiguous.
And, B→A.
Major Job Attitudes:
1. Job satisfaction: which is the positive feeling about the job resulting from an
evaluation of its characteristics.
2. Job involvement: looks at the degree of psychological identification with the
job.
3. Psychological empowerment: the belief in the degree of influence over the
job, competence in the job, and job meaningfulness.
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Job Attitude
Attitude: statements whether an item or a place or a person or event is favorable or
unfavorable.
Components of Attitude:
1- Cognitive: based on opinion, facts,
and beliefs.
2- Affective: based on emotions.
3- Behavioral: based on actions or
behavior.
How to Measure Attitude?
By looking at people’s behavior.
Self-Perception Theory:
Attitudes are used after the fact to make sense out of an action that has already
occurred.
Used when Attitudes are vague and ambiguous.
And, B→A.
Major Job Attitudes:
1. Job satisfaction: which is the positive feeling about the job resulting from an
evaluation of its characteristics.
2. Job involvement: looks at the degree of psychological identification with the
job.
3. Psychological empowerment: the belief in the degree of influence over the
job, competence in the job, and job meaningfulness.
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