MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Job Satisfaction, Distributive Justice, Organizational Commitment
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Generational differences in values: different generation, different values. Collective cultures favour interdependence and loyalty to family: long-term/short-term orientation stress persistence, perseverance, thrift and close attention to status differences. Attitude fairly stable evaluative tendency to respond consistently to some specific object, situation, person or category or people. Involve evaluations directed to specific targets: attitudes are tendencies to respond to the target. Job satisfaction collection of attitudes that workers have about their jobs. Discrepancy theory job satisfaction stems from the discrepancy between the job outcomes wanted and the outcomes that are perceived to be obtained. Interactional fairness people feel they have received respectful and informative communication about an outcome. Identical twins raised apart from early childhood tend to have similar levels of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction tends to be fairly stable over time, even when changes in employer occur: disposition measured early in adolescence is correlated with one"s job satisfaction as a mature adult.
