COLLAB 2N03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction, Discrepancy Theory, Division Of Property
5 Mar 2015
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Ob chapter 4- values, attitudes and work behaviour. Cultural differences in values: work centrality. Survey of over 8000 individuals found that people perceived work as a central life interest. The survey also found that people for whom work was a central life interest tended to work more hours: hofstede"s study. Individualism/collectivism individualistic societies stress independence, individual initiative, and privacy. Collective cultures favour interdependence and loyalty to family or clan: long term/short-term orientation cultures with long-term orientation tend to stress persistence, perseverance, thrift and close attention to status differences. What are attitudes: an attitude is a fairly stable evaluative tendency to respond consistently to some specific object, situation, person, or category of people, attitudes involve evaluations directed toward specific targets. Attitudes are tendencies to respond to the target of the attitude. Thus attitudes often influence our behaviour toward some object, situation, person or group: belief +value attitude behaviour.
