Assignment on: Employee Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

Done by: T.K. Cédric Wan Wing Kai(081461)

Cohort: BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management 09 Part Time

Table of Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
Employee Attitude……………………………………………………………………………………………4 * Features of Attitudes………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
Attitudes, Opinions and Beliefs……………………………………………………………………….5
Factors in Attitude formation………………………………………………………………………...6
Methods of Attitude change…………………………………………………………………………….6
Values and attitudes……………………………………………………………………………………….7
Values and Behavior……………………………………………………………………………………….7
Attitude of employees towards the organization…………………………………………..8
Job
2. Ego-Defensive – The ego-defensive functions of attitude focus on the importance of psychological thought. Attitude may be acquired by facing threats in the external world or becoming aware of his own unacceptable impulses. 3. The value - Orientation function takes into account attitudes that are held because they express a person’s self-image, or by cues that engage the person’s values and make them salient to him. 4. Knowledge – The knowledge function of attitude is based on a person’s need to maintain a stable, organized and meaningful structure of the world. 5. Attitude that gives a standard against which someone evaluates the facets of his world and use it as the knowledge function too.

These functions of attitudes affect the individual’s way of interpreting the information coming to him. Since they affect work requirements and work responses, information about the way people feel about their jobs can be very useful in way people will behave about their job. Thus, these types of attitudes can create areas of enquiry for making the employee and the organization more compatible.

Factors in Attitude Formation
The attitudes are learned. Generally, an individual learn things from his surroundings, that is, the environment in which they interact, even though there are different approaches to learning those.
Thus, for an attitude to be formed, all the factors from which people