Employee Attitude and Behaviour: Search Within Yourself

In particular the disposition of positive affectivity and negative affectivity have been found to be important antecedents to attitudes about one’s job. Research finds that people with a positive affectivity tend to perform better and have a higher work satisfaction than their negative counterparts. Work satisfaction has significant influence over employee performance, absenteeism and employee turnover. It also has strong relation with employee’s health, on job accidents, grievances and stress. A person with high work satisfaction can be perceived as being happy in his job and work environment. A higher job satisfaction quotient inculcates a positive attitude towards the job and the organization. Thus increasing work satisfaction is critical

Based on the current body of knowledge the following evidence based guidelines may help enhance job satisfaction. 1. Make jobs more fun 2. Have fair play, benefits and promotion opportunities 3. Match people with jobs that fit their interests and skills 4. Design jobs to make them exciting and satisfying
Chade Meng Tan brings yet another innovative technique to increase job satisfaction ,overall happiness and general well-being. He believes that a high emotional intelligence enables three skill sets. 1. Stellar Work Performance 2. Outstanding leadership 3. The ability to create the conditions for happiness
Thus developing a high emotional intelligence can result in modifying and cultivating a positive attitude in a person thus benefit from its resulting advantages. Based on Chade Meng Tan’s approach a high job satisfaction can be attained by developing mindfulness which is used to train a quality of attention that is strong in clarity and stability. When such attention is directed towards the physiological aspects of emotion, we can perceive the emotional expeircen with high vividness and resolution which in turn allows to build the foundation of emotional intelligence.

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