Attitudes Can Shape Your Life

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties : you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Values: core of personality, force affecting behaviour

Values can be defined as global beliefs that guide actins and judgments across variety of situations Features: Permanent and resistant to change Reflects standards of morality Two attributes: content and intensity

categories of values by Milton

Terminal : ends to be achieved, like comfortable life, family security, self respect, and sense of accomplishment. Instrumental values: means of achieving the desired ends like: ambition, courage, honesty and imagination.

Types of values by Allports

Theoretical: discovery in truth Economic: practicality and accumulation of wealth Aesthetic: interest in beauty Social: interest in people and human relations.

Political: interest in gaining power Religion: interest in unity

Sources of values
Family factors Social factors Cultural factors Religious factors Personal factors Life experience

Values in managers
Money oriented Various occupational values More pragmatist than moralist.

Attitudes
As the way a person feels about something. A predisposition to respond in a positive or negative way to someone or something in ones environment

What Is an Attitude?
A thought accepted as true An emotional readiness to behave in a particular way Leads one to think, feel or act positively or negatively toward a person, idea or event Deeply ingrained in our personalities as we learn and grow

Aspects of Attitudes
Can be changed or new ones learned Not formed casually or quickly Can motivate or cause to act One can choose to act or not Values serve as a foundation for attitudes

Attitudes Can Shape Your Life

Impact of attitudes on success of individuals and organizations Ways people acquire attitudes Attitudes that employers value How to change your own or others' attitudes Organizational efforts to develop positive employee attitudes

The Relationship Among Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors

Components of attitudes
Cognitive or informational: beliefs and values ideas opinions and other information. For an example a person seeking a job may learn from some sources of job.

Affective or emotional component: it involves a persons feelings of positive, negative and neutral.
Behavioural component: tendency to behave in particular manner.

Functions of attitude
Adjustment function Ego defensive function Value expressive function Knowledge function

Sources of attitude
Direct personal experience Association Social learning or modelling Institutional factors Mass media: Advertising message Economic Status and Occupation

Job related attitude and behaviour

Job satisfaction Job involvement Organisational commitment

Change the attitude

Change in ideas and beliefs
Change in feelings and emotions Change in situations

Change in behaviour