Examples of attitude in the following topics:
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- When defining attitude, it is helpful to bear two useful conflicts in mind.
- People with a positive attitude can lift the spirits of their co-workers, while a person with a negative attitude can lower their spirits.
- Is it a manager's responsibility to help change the person's attitude?
- At times, attitudes are beyond the reach of the business to improve.
- A person's attitude can be influenced by his or her environment, just as a person's attitude affects his or her environment.
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- Attitudes can positively or negatively affect a person's behavior.
- Attitude and behavior interact differently based upon the attitude in question.
- Understanding different types of attitudes and their likely implications is useful in predicting how individuals' attitudes may govern their behavior.
- Daniel Katz uses four attitude classifications:
- Ego-defensive: People have a tendency to use attitudes to protect their ego, resulting in a common negative attitude.
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- If you value equal rights for all and you go to work for an organization that treats its managers much better than it does its workers, you may form the attitude that the company is an unfair place to work; consequently, you may not produce well or may even leave the company.
- It is likely that if the company had a more egalitarian policy, your attitude and behaviors would have been more positive.
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- Laissez-faire attitudes and the promotion of free market dynamics are, in many ways, contrary to the legal creation of employee rights.
- Laissez-faire attitudes and the promotion of free-market dynamics are, in many ways, contrary to the legal creation of employee rights.
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- Social factors include the cultural aspects of the environment, such as health consciousness, population growth rate, age distribution, career attitudes, and emphasis on safety.
- Often referred to socio-demographic factors, they largely consist of preferences and attitudes displayed by different groups of individuals within a given market.
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- Failure to follow team norms: A team member creates conflict when she displays attitudes or behaviors that go against the team's agreement about how it will function.
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- The five core job characteristics can be combined to form a motivating potential score for a job that can be used as an index of how likely a job is to affect an employee's attitudes and behaviors.
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- Incorporating entrepreneurial concepts into traditional corporate environments is easy to promote in theory: capturing the innovative attitudes of small start-ups within the larger organizational context (i.e., with more resources) seems intuitive.
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- Persuasion, as a subcategory of influence, is the ability to use communication to affect another's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, etc.
- Functional Theories - These theories revolve around assumptions about how people may react towards influence or persuasion in respect to their own attitudes.