Exam 2: Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

In her work in the publishing industry, Vera seeks out new authors who she considers promising. In the past two years she has found a number of new writers whose work she thought was exceptional, and immersed herself in the task of helping them shape their manuscripts for submission to her managers for publishing. Although she was extremely proud of the results, none of the authors she worked with were chosen for publication. Vera believes that the decision not to publish these authors was based on personal rivalries within management, rather than the quality of her writers' work. She is extremely frustrated, dreads coming into work each morning, and is seriously thinking of resigning. How can Vera's job attitudes best be described?

In measuring job satisfaction, the two most widely used approaches are a single global rating and a score arrived at by weighting the contribution of a number of job facets to overall satisfaction.

Neville feels obligated to remain with his company on account of the resources they have invested in training him. This example is indicative of ________.

________ is an emotional attachment to the organization and a belief in its values.

Cognitive dissonance explains the linkage between attitudes and behavior.

________ is an obligation to remain with the organization for moral or ethical reasons.

Festinger argued that dissonance is ________. Therefore, people will attempt to reduce it.

To get his company through some hard economic times, Ben's hours have just been reduced from 40 a week to 33. Ben is upset about the reduction in time and pay, but he shows up at work every morning and is willing to patiently wait until economic times improve, and he can go back to working full time. Which of the following best describes Ben's response to his dissatisfaction?

The belief that "violence is wrong" is an evaluative statement. Such an opinion constitutes the ________ component of an attitude.

On what data or evidence is the idea that employee engagement is beneficial for the employer based on? Explain your answer with a workplace example.

Describe a workplace example of how people seek consistency among their attitudes and their behavior by reducing cognitive dissonance. Then, sort your example into the three main components of attitudes.