Individual Perception

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Individual Perception

Paula C. Price

MT302-02

Attitudes can have a significant effect on the behavior of a person at work.

In the world of work we are concerned with attitudes toward supervision, pay,

benefits, promotion or anything that might trigger positive or negative reactions.

Employee satisfaction and attitudes represent one of the key areas of measuring

organizational effectiveness.

Worker attitudes are tendencies to react in a favorable or unfavorable way

toward objects, people, or events, generated by mind-set toward supervision,

pay, benefits, promotion, or anything that might trigger positive or negative

reactions. As a result, employee satisfaction and attitudes represent one of the

key areas for measuring organizational effectiveness, workplace environment,

job satisfaction. Attitudes reflect a person's likes and dislikes toward other

persons, objects, events, and activities in their environment. It makes sense to

study and know about attitudes because strong attitudes will very likely affect a

person's behavior. Because of the importance of the links of task, contextual,

and ethical performance with important measures of organizational

effectiveness, one of the key goals of managers should be to create linkages

between employee performance and their satisfaction.

However, it is not always

easy to change a person's attitudes about their work. The reason is that attitudes

toward work may be only one important aspect of the person's structure of

attitudes. They might be linked strongly to other important ones, making them

deeply embedded, and thereby limiting how much managers can succeed in

altering the way employees feel and act. However, particular attitudes and

satisfactions at work can and do change, sometimes quickly, as events change.

Employees who are happy and productive one day can become dissatisfied

and resentful overnight as a consequence of some kind of managerial action.

Many organizations pay close attention to attitudes by conducting periodic

attitude surveys of...