Major Job Attitudes

•What Are the Major Job Attitudes?

•Job Satisfaction

–A positive feeling about the job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics.

•Job Involvement

–Degree of psychological identification with the job where perceived performance is important to self-worth.

•Psychological Empowerment

–Belief in the degree of influence over the job, competence, job meaningfulness, and autonomy.

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•Another Major Job Attitude

•Organizational Commitment

–Identifying with a particular organization and its goals, while wishing to maintain membership in the organization.

–Three dimensions:

•Affective – emotional attachment to organization

•Continuance Commitment – economic value of staying

•Normative – moral or ethical obligations

–Has some relation to performance, especially for new employees.

–Less important now than in past – now perhaps more of occupational commitment, loyalty to profession rather than to a given employer.

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