Attitudes

Attitudes are evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects, people, or

events.
Components of Attitude

 Affective component The affective component of attitudes refer to your feelings

or emotions linked to an attitude object. Affective responses influence attitudes
in a number of ways. For example, many people are afraid/scared of spiders. So
this negative affective response is likely to cause you to have a negative attitude
towards spiders.
 Behavioural component The behavioural component of attitudes refer to past
behaviours or experiences regarding an attitude object. The idea that people
might infer their attitudes from their previous actions.
 Cognitive component The cognitive component of attitudes refer to the beliefs,
thoughts, and attributes that we would associate with an object. Many times a
person's attitude might be based on the negative and positive attributes they
associate with an object.

Job Attitude
A job attitude is a set of evaluations of one's job that constitute one's feelings
toward, beliefs about, and attachment to one's job.

1. Job Involvement: Identifying with one's job and actively participating in it, and considering
performance important to self-worth.[5]
2. Organizational Commitment: Identifying with a particular organization and its goals, and
wishing to maintain membership in the organization.[5]
3. Perceived Organizational Support (POS): The degree to which employees feel the
organization cares about their well-being.[5]
4. Employee Engagement: An individual's involvement with, satisfaction with, and enthusiasm
for the organization.

Job Facets
Job facet satisfaction refers to feelings about specific job aspects, such as salary,
benefits, and relationships with co-workers.[9]

 Satisfaction with work: The emotional state of a worker while working is critical
to job attitudes. Although a person may self-identify in terms of profession, for
example as a doctor, lawyer or engineer, it is their well being at work which is
significant in characterizing job attitude. Satisfaction with work can be analyzed
 by evaluation (I like or dislike my job), cognitively (my work is challenging) and
behaviorally (I am reliable)]
 Supervision: Supervision has a significant relationship with productivity.
However, supervision can only be taken positively with acceptance. Therefore,
it is important to ensure a positive attitude to work.[10]
 Co-workers: Co-workers are a common source of job stress, as demonstrated by
studies using role theory
 Pay and promotion: Given employee commitment and organizational personality
orientation, compensation and advancement function as positive reinforcement,
demonstrating that the worker is valued and reinforcing loyalty.[12]
Influencing Factors
 Emotional exhaustion
 Interpersonal conflict affects job attitudes: cut-throat competition resulted in
a bitter relationship with co-workers. The exacerbated stress leads to
emotional exhaustion, and this negatively affects job attitude.[13]
 Personality
 Subordinates' job attitude, such as job satisfaction and turnover intention,
does not influence "satisfaction with the supervisor". The supervisor's
personality strongly influences the subordinate's "satisfaction with the
supervisor". Personality traits of the supervisor, in particular
agreeableness, extroversion and emotional stability, are positively related to
subordinate attitude and have a greater effect on subordinate satisfaction with
supervision than do more general work-related attitudes.[14] Supervisor
agreeableness and emotional stability were positively related with employee
satisfaction with the supervisor, and supervisor extroversion was negatively
correlated with turnover intentions