Attitudes and Organizational Commitment
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Attitudes and Organizational Commitment
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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOROrganizational BehaviorStudent’s NameCourse Code
1ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORIn what circumstances do attitudes determine behaviors at work? Why are attitudes usefulfor a person? Examine how much is known about what factors determine either jobsatisfaction or organizational commitment. To what extent does organizationalcommitment suggests that managers in organization should care about how committedtheir staffs are?Organization is made by the people working in it. It is the behavior, the attitude of theemployees which determines the success and failure of the organization. Understanding theattitude of a person is of utmost important to make the best use of his abilities to work (Altman,Valenzi and Hodgetts 2013). The perception of a person towards its working environment is thekey to its performance. Knowledge of attitude of employees makes it easier to deal with them,make the job interesting and satisfactory in nature and to motivate them to gain higher levels ofproductivity. Attitude is termed as the mental state of a person which is created through experience,dynamically induced and directed towards response of a person to handle different situations. Itcan be simply said that it is the mindset of a person to react in different circumstances guided byhis experiences and temperament (Braun, Peus and Frey 2013). Attitude is a complex set ofintangible objects which includes the personality, behaviors, beliefs, values and motivations.Attitude is made up of three constituents which are effect (feeling), behavior (action) andcognition (thought). Combining these three aspects we get the attitude of person (Wayne, Casperand Allen 2013). Attitude helps us to define how a person handles a situation and the kind ofbehavior which is exhibited towards a situation. Attitude formation at workplace is accomplishedthrough learning, direct experiences and modeling peers at work. Attitude of a person at work ismainly determined by two factors. Job Satisfaction and Organizational commitment are the twoaspects of attitude demonstrated in work. Job satisfaction is determines the level of commitment shown by an employee. Jobsatisfaction is developed through factors such as work environment, how they are treated,relationship among peers and seniors (DuBrin 2013). If an employee is not happy with itsworking environment or is getting disturbed by his colleague of too much work load is given tohim by his senior then the attitude of the person tends to change. The employee will not bewilling to do all the work he is allotted as there is a sense of disliking which is developed
2ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORtowards the job. Attitude of that person towards his job starts to change with each hour spent inthe office. Mental health of the person starts to degrade and so does its efficiency to work. On theother hand, if the atmosphere at work is congenial and light and the person is in good terms withhis peers and his manager gives him optimum workload and appreciation then the attitude of theperson changes in a much positive way (Dumdum, Lowe and Avolio 2013). He will be willing towork much harder to complete his work for the incentive of appreciation from his colleague andboss. This will lead to the growth of the company and a healthy working environment will paygood dividends. Attitude of employees much be kept under radar so that proper monitoring andmodifications can be done to keep the status quo of the attitude of employees positive for themutual benefit of him as well as the company.Feelings which an employee possesses towards its job are termed as Job Satisfaction. It isconsidered as the most important job attitude which is required in an organization. There aresome characteristics of job satisfaction which is related directly to the efficiency and productivityof the employee (Haslam, van Knippenberg and Ellemers 2014). Workers who are said to besatisfied with their jobs tend to be more productive and more productive workers are observed tobe more satisfied. Job Satisfaction and efficiency goes hand in hand. Watching one worker to bemore productive others also start to follow which increases both satisfaction as well asproductivity of the organization. Job satisfaction is achieved through a number of factors. Thesefactors are:Interesting Work: Compelling and engaging work decreases the charm of working (Hülsheger,Alberts and Lang 2013). Interesting work which has a variety of things to do and worker getssomething new to learn out of it attracts more workers and gives them the satisfaction ofworking.Job Security: It is one of the most prominent features of job satisfaction. Anyone who works fora living wants to continue the status quo as per their liking. Security of the job gives utmostsatisfaction to a worker and motivates them to grow in their current job (Hülsheger, Alberts andLang 2013). The quality of work done is significantly increases if the worker knows that he isnot going anywhere and will continue to work in the same organization. They create theirexpectations according to the continuance of the work even take loans and other financial helprelying on the fact that their job is secure and will continue to be that way. Job Security has faded
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