Find
Search for over 200,000 study notes and past assignments!
Swap
Download study resources by swapping your own or buying Exchange Credits.
Study
Study from your library anywhere, anytime.
1 Found helpful • 70 Pages • Complete Study Notes • Year Uploaded: 2021
Managers should be interested in their employees’ attitudes because they give warnings of potential problems and influence behaviours. Evidence suggests that managers efforts to improve employee attitudes will increase organisational productivity bring positive outcomes e.g. citizenship behaviour. Components: 1) Cognitive à An opinion or belief about the way things are 2) Affective àThe emotion or feeling – how does cognitive make you feel. 3) Behavioural àThe intention to behave in a certain way (impacted by cognitive and affective) A cognitive dissonance occurs when there is an incompatibility between these components. An individual will seek to rectify this gap and achieve consistency by: altering the way you behave or feel. E.g. believing you are to honour your parents but you are angry with them – one of the feelings or behaviours must change. Which one we alter will depend on: • The importance of different elements • E.g. believe in saving money but want to buy nice things is an incompatibility. Lifestyle circumstances will cause you to move between e.g. want to save for a house or have excess spending money. • The degree of control • E.g. Forced to move out vs choosing to move out. • Rewards involved • Delayed vs instant gratification May also be impacted by moderating variables e.g. importance of cogniti
This document is 50 Exchange Credits
More about this document:
|
|
This document has been hand checkedEvery document on Thinkswap has been carefully hand checked to make sure it's correctly described and categorised. No more browsing through piles of irrelevant study resources. |
|
|
This is a Complete Set of Study NotesComplete Study Notes typically cover at least half a semester’s content or several topics in greater depth. They are typically greater than 20 pages in length and go into more detail when covering topics. |
|
|
What are Exchange Credits?Exchange Credits represent the worth of each document on Thinkswap. In exchange for uploading documents you will receive Exchange Credits. These credits can then be used to download other documents for free. |
|
|
Satisfaction GuaranteeWe want you to be satisfied with your learning, that’s why all documents on Thinkswap are covered by our Satisfaction Guarantee. If a document is not of an acceptable quality or the document was incorrectly described or categorised, we will provide a full refund of Exchange Credits so that you can get another document. For more information please read Thinkswap's Satisfaction Guarantee. |
Studying with Academic Integrity
Studying from past student work is an amazing way to learn and research, however you must always act with academic integrity.
This document is the prior work of another student. Thinkswap has partnered with Turnitin to ensure students cannot copy directly from our resources. Understand how to responsibly use this work by visiting ‘Using Thinkswap resources correctly’.
Browse USYD Subjects
