Assignment on: Employee Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
Done by: T.K. Cédric Wan Wing Kai(081461)
Cohort: BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management 09 Part Time
Table of Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
Employee Attitude……………………………………………………………………………………………4 * Features of Attitudes………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
Attitudes, Opinions and Beliefs……………………………………………………………………….5
Factors in Attitude formation………………………………………………………………………...6
Methods of Attitude change…………………………………………………………………………….6
Values and attitudes……………………………………………………………………………………….7
Values and Behavior……………………………………………………………………………………….7
Attitude of employees towards the organization…………………………………………..8
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A difference can also be made between attitude and belief. A belief is an enduring organization of perceptions and cognitions about some aspects of individual world whereas belief is a hypothesis concerning the nature of objects, more particularly, concerning one’s judgement of the probability regarding the nature.
In this sense, belief is the cognitive component of attitude which reflects the manner in which an object is perceived. The difference between attitude, opinion and belief exists on conceptual basis.
Most researchers believe that these three terms are so closely tied that it is difficult to separate them except on a limited conceptual basis.
Many psychologists however think that attitudes are more important to human behavior than are the related aspects. For instance, more efforts have been put into analyzing attitudes rather than others. It is obvious to say that attitudes are an important concern because of their main position in the process of changing work perquisites in efforts.
Attitude itself do not influence behavior but these acts with other factors in the individual influencing behavior, such as personality, perception, motivation and others.
Further, attitudes are also affected by the individual dimension as well as the objects, persons and ideas. Attitudes have been through as serving four functions and there by influencing the behavior.
These are: 1. Instrumental – Attitude are a way to reach a desired objective or to avoid an
2. Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about a particular thing, that is impacted by one’s behavior. Knowledge is information gained through education showing understanding of the topic. Information can add onto people’s knowledge of a particular subject that results in a change of attitude about it. It is important for writers to learn about the difference due to gauge the audience away from their biases through certain attitudes on topics in order to acquire knowledge. The reader will keep having a certain opinion on the topic (showed by their attitude)if they're not educated.
Attitudes can also arise due to observational learning, wherein people internalize the attitudes of others; passing them on from one individual to the other. Attitudes can be held implicitly and do not innately imply behavior. Often individual’s will have consideration of a ground or opinion but not act on it when the chance rises. Many factors influence whether or not attitudes will come to impact behavior.
Beliefs are the things that we hold dearest to us, believing that they are true and correct. Most of the time though, there’s no proof or evidence to support these beliefs. The biggest belief in many
Belief is the idea that if an individual is committed to a society that upholds good virtue and morals, then that individual will most likely not engage in deviant behavior. If the individual believes that murder is wrong, then that individual will not commit murder due to his/her belief.
A belief is defines a true statement, something that exists, or the trust and faith in someone or something. We all have beliefs and have obtained those believes individually in many different ways and whose to say that belief is right or wrong, or true or false. As with a myth, a traditional story, mostly believed to be a false idea or false believe.
Attitude - Attitude toward a behavior is referred as an individual’s positive and negative evaluation of a relevant behavior and is composed of an individual’s salient beliefs regarding the perceived consequences of performing behavior (Ajzen, 1991, p.207).
High-performing organisations focus heavily, in their recruitment and selection procedures, on attitude assessment. Attitude is the component of employee behaviour that indicates motivation-support for organisational goals, potential for active involvement I improvement processes, and cooperation when required,
Attitude towards the action is a learned bias to respond favorably/unfavorably and consistently with respect to the action. This includes the degree of certainty about consequences from the behavior and likely outcomes. Subjective norms consist of social pressures which try to convince the individual to comply with the desired behavior. Subjective norms also consist of normative beliefs (what others prefer us to do) and motivation to comply (our desire to do what others expect). From our attitudes and social pressures a behavioral plan is derived. Behavioral intention’s is a course of action to follow, that is, a plan to put behavior into effect. From the person’s behavioral intentions comes one’s behavior. While the theory predicts behavioral intentions, it does not necessarily predict actual behavior because people don’t always behave in accordance with their intentions – as we witness in Breaking Bad.
• Belief: Belief is someone whose beliefs are a big part of their life and helps guide their purpose in life.
An attitude are the long lasting beliefs, feelings, and behavioral responses towards social objects such as other people or issues (Attitudes and Behavior, n.d.). Attitudes can either be positive or negative.
“Attitudes are positive or negative evaluations, feeling, and tendencies that individuals harbor toward objects or concepts” (Wild). As the book mentions, attitudes are similar to values, these are formed according to a culture background and varies from country to country.
Attitudea relatively constant feeling, predisposition, or a set of beliefs that is directed toward an object, a person, or a situation.
Attitudes are thoughts that you have accepted as true and that lead you to think, feel, or act positively or negatively toward a person, idea or event. They represent an emotional readiness to behave in a particular manner. (Reece) Positive and negative attitudes affect how you work and how you influence other people around you. These attitudes can absolutely be changed though because we are not born with those attitudes. We form them as time passes, depending on the situations that we have been through. For instance, if you had a job where your supervisor was racist toward you, you would begin to form a negative attitude about supervisors thinking that all of them are going to be racist. Instead, you can change your attitude by thinking that not everyone acts the same way. A positive attitude can make a difference between an amazing life and a nonsense one. Therefore, a lot of people should try to change their attitude to a positive one.
The word attitude is generally a term used to describe the way we perceive and evaluate the social world around us, the way in which we build a positive or negative
Attitudes carry a huge weight in social psychology. In the past, the theory of attitudes was considered the most dominant study in social psychology (Allport, 1935). Throughout time, the term attitude has accumulated many definitions, a renowned definition being “a relatively enduring organisation of beliefs, feelings and behavioural tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or symbols” (Hogg and Vaughan, 2014, p. 150). The focus on attitudes is so significant because the question of whether attitudes can predict behaviour has arisen time after time. If attitudes do predict behaviour, we can discover why people act in certain ways and, therefore, attempt to change negative behaviours. Over time, work has been carried out to determine to what extent attitudes predict behaviour.