Attitudes & Organizational Behavior
Attitudes and Organizational Behavior
Sheena Armistead
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on April 12, 2015 for Dr. William’s Organizational Behavior Analysis class at Rasmussen College by Sheena Armistead.
Attitudes and Organizational Behavior Robbins & Judge (2014), explain that you may find many organizational behavior challenges and opportunities in the work place. Challenges you may find at work are; responding to economic pressures, globalization, advancing information technology and continuous innovation and change. Organizational behavior opportunities in the work place include; understanding different cultures and developing new behaviors, impacting the organizations structure, motivating workers and opportunities to redesign jobs or create new ones.
Attitudes are evaluative statements, with three main components cognition, affect and behavior (Robbins & Judge, 2014). The affect component is our feelings or emotions toward a certain subject, for example, “I am afraid to fly in an airplane.” The behavioral component is how we behave or act towards the subject, such as, “I will not fly in an airplane, I will take the train instead.” The cognitive component is the belief or knowledge we form about the subject, such as, “I believe that airplanes are dangerous and may crash.” All of the components in this example form a negative attitude about flying in airplanes. We can have attitudes about anything negative and positive or in any aspect of our lives. “Research has generally concluded that people do seek consistency among their attitudes and between their attitudes and their behavior (Robbins & Judge, 2014).” People either alter their attitudes or behavior to remain consistent or develop a rationalization based on the discrepancy.
According to Robbins & Judge (2014), self-perception theory looks at whether a person’s behavior influences their attitudes. Self-perception theory happens when a person is asked
Sheena Armistead
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on April 12, 2015 for Dr. William’s Organizational Behavior Analysis class at Rasmussen College by Sheena Armistead.
Attitudes and Organizational Behavior Robbins & Judge (2014), explain that you may find many organizational behavior challenges and opportunities in the work place. Challenges you may find at work are; responding to economic pressures, globalization, advancing information technology and continuous innovation and change. Organizational behavior opportunities in the work place include; understanding different cultures and developing new behaviors, impacting the organizations structure, motivating workers and opportunities to redesign jobs or create new ones.
Attitudes are evaluative statements, with three main components cognition, affect and behavior (Robbins & Judge, 2014). The affect component is our feelings or emotions toward a certain subject, for example, “I am afraid to fly in an airplane.” The behavioral component is how we behave or act towards the subject, such as, “I will not fly in an airplane, I will take the train instead.” The cognitive component is the belief or knowledge we form about the subject, such as, “I believe that airplanes are dangerous and may crash.” All of the components in this example form a negative attitude about flying in airplanes. We can have attitudes about anything negative and positive or in any aspect of our lives. “Research has generally concluded that people do seek consistency among their attitudes and between their attitudes and their behavior (Robbins & Judge, 2014).” People either alter their attitudes or behavior to remain consistent or develop a rationalization based on the discrepancy.
According to Robbins & Judge (2014), self-perception theory looks at whether a person’s behavior influences their attitudes. Self-perception theory happens when a person is asked
References: Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. (2014). Essentials of organizational behavior (12th ed.). Boston: Pearson.