Job Attitudes
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What are the dispositional antecedents of job attitudes?

Core self-evaluations (CSEs), the Big Five, and positive/negative affectivity

What is the correlation between CSE and job satisfaction?

r = 0.37

Which factor consistently influences job satisfaction across studies?

CSE

How do high CSE individuals perceive stress and burnout?

<p>Less prone to perceive stress and at less risk for burnout</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between CSE and perceptions of organizational obstacles to goal fulfillment?

<p>Negative</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three facets of attitudes?

<p>The three facets of attitudes are affect, cognition, and behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is job attitude?

<p>Job attitude refers to evaluations of one's job that express one's feelings toward, beliefs about, and attachment to one's job.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are job attitudes organized?

<p>Job attitudes are organized in a hierarchical fashion, with global attitudes and specific attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is job satisfaction?

<p>Job satisfaction refers to an evaluative state that expresses contentment with and positive feelings about one's job.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are affective and cognitive dimensions of attitudes related?

<p>Affective and cognitive dimensions of attitudes are not easily separated and have a reciprocal relationship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the theory of planned behaviour?

<p>The theory of planned behaviour suggests that general attitudes develop into specific attitudes, which then form intentions, leading to certain behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between transformational leadership and employee emotions?

<p>Transformational leadership is linked to more positive employee emotions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do high levels of interpersonal justice affect organizational commitment and supervisor satisfaction?

<p>High levels of interpersonal justice are associated with organizational commitment and supervisor satisfaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the theory that suggests dissatisfaction results from a discrepancy between desired payment and actual pay?

<p>The discrepancy theory suggests that dissatisfaction results from a discrepancy between desired payment and actual pay.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the dimensions of job performance?

<p>The dimensions of job performance include task performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and withdrawal/counterproductivity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance?

<p>There is a substantial relationship between job satisfaction and job performance, but the causal direction is unclear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the different facets of job satisfaction and how do they relate to outcomes of interest?

<p>Different facets of job satisfaction show different relationships with outcomes of interest. Satisfaction with work has the strongest relationship with motivation, while aggregated pay satisfaction is related to student academic competency.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does commitment relate to job performance?

<p>There is a positive relationship between commitment and job performance, but it declines significantly with increasing employee tenure. Less-tenured employees have a stronger attitude-behavior link.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between stress and job performance?

<p>There is a negative relationship between stress and job performance, and vice versa. Attitudes can moderate the relationship between stress and performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does job satisfaction relate to organizational innovation?

<p>Higher levels of job satisfaction are associated with increased organizational innovation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four main dimensions of pay and promotion policies?

<p>The four main dimensions of pay and promotion policies are: (1) pay level; (2) benefits; (3) pay rise; (4) structure/administration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is organizational commitment?

<p>Organizational commitment is an individual's psychological bond with the organization, represented by affective attachment to the organization, internalization of its values and goals, feelings of loyalty, intention to remain as part of it, and behavioral desire to support it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the highest predictive power of organizational behavior?

<p>Affective commitment has the highest predictive power of organizational behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the difference between affective commitment and continuance commitment?

<p>Affective commitment investigates people's values towards the organization, their attachment, how much they feel included, and the similarity of goals. Continuance commitment relates to whether people are willing to leave the organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three overlapping categories in the literature on job attitudes?

<p>The three overlapping categories in the literature on job attitudes are: 1) moods and discrete emotional states, 2) within-person variability in job attitudes (without mood/emotions), and 3) stable and dynamic variation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the main focuses of the paper on job attitudes?

<p>The main focuses of the paper are the definitions and characteristics of job attitudes, the influences and possible interactions between dispositional and situational factors on attitudes, and the relation between employee attitudes and behavior on individual and aggregated levels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the recency bias mentioned in the text?

<p>The recency bias refers to the tendency to only consider recent research variables and topics in the review, while still including traditional findings as a baseline.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important to consider job attitudes as a type of attitudes in the broader scope of social attitudes?

<p>Job attitudes are important entities related to people's identity, life satisfaction, health, and general evaluation of life. Attitudes shape behavior, and job attitudes could also influence behavior. Therefore, more research should be done to explore the relationship between job attitudes and social attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the definition of attitude according to Eagly & Chaiken (1993)?

<p>Attitude is a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is there no universally agreed definition of job attitudes?

<p>There is no universally agreed definition of job attitudes because people hold a limitless number of evaluations and attitudes, resulting in a multiplicity of perspectives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Job satisfaction has the strongest relationship with ________.

<p>satisfaction with work</p> Signup and view all the answers

High levels of commitment are associated with ________ absenteeism.

<p>low</p> Signup and view all the answers

Organizational commitment is related to ________ satisfaction.

<p>manager</p> Signup and view all the answers

Withdrawal cognitions and turnover intentions are most strongly related to ________.

<p>satisfaction with the work itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

High levels of job satisfaction lead to thoughts about ________.

<p>quitting</p> Signup and view all the answers

Cognitive ability, education, and occupation-specific training are associated with ________.

<p>likelihood of expressing attitudes</p> Signup and view all the answers

Unit-level absence is more strongly related to job satisfaction when the ________ is low.

<p>unemployment rate</p> Signup and view all the answers

Employee satisfaction is related to ________.

<p>customer satisfaction</p> Signup and view all the answers

Job attitudes are related to a variety of ________ relevant behaviors.

<p>organizationally</p> Signup and view all the answers

Manager satisfaction is related to ________.

<p>store performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

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