Exam 6: Values, Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, and Counter-Productive Work Behaviors

Individual-organizational value conflict is related to positive outcomes such as satisfaction, commitment, performance, career success, reduced stress, and lower turnover intentions.

The _____ component of an attitude contains the feelings or emotions one has about a given object or situation.

Jane hated the idea of child labor. She believed that children should not be employed in any type of job. She worked in a factory that claimed that it did not employ children. However, news reports accused the company of employing young children. The psychological discomfort that Jane experienced when she heard this news is known as:

_____ reflects the extent to which an individual identifies with an organization and works to achieve its goals.

Discrepancy models of job satisfaction propose that job satisfaction increases as:

Attitudes have affective, cognitive, and behavioral components.

Attitudes represent global beliefs that influence behavior across all situations.

An attitude is a learned predisposition to respond in a consistently favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given object.

According to Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, behavioral intentions are influenced by attitude toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control.

Managers can positively affect a variety of important organizational outcomes, including job performance, by increasing employee job satisfaction.

In which of the following stages of life is a person least likely to change his or her general attitudes?

Janice creates advertising slogans for the advertising firm that she works with. She works with beliefs, perceptions, and informal obligations about what she is entitled to receive in return for what she provides to the organization. These beliefs of Janis represent a(n) _____.

Counterproductive work behaviors are types of behavior that harm employees, the organization as a whole, or organizational stakeholders such as customers and shareholder.

Individual differences influence our values, attitudes, job satisfaction, and tendency to exhibit counterproductive workplace behaviors.

The boss of a Preamble Systems announced the employees would be going on a trip to San Francisco. A few employees liked the idea and a few of them disliked the idea. According to the nature of attitudes, these evaluations reflect the _____ component of the employees.

______ is defined as the degree to which one is cognitively preoccupied with, engaged in, and concerned with one's present job.

Affective commitment reflects a feeling of obligation to continue employment.

In Schwartz's value theory, adjacent values like self-direction and universalism are negatively related.

_____ conflict is experienced when personal values conflict with each other.

According to value-based model of work/family conflict, family values are the source of _____.