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Attitudes
Personality
Perception
Dual focus of OB
- Individual behaviour
- Group behaviour
- Norms, roles, team building, and conflict
Goals of OB
To explain, predict, and influence behaviour.
ATTITUDES
Employee
attitude
Subsequent
behaviour
satisfaction
and
productivity
- "SoJob
what"
if there is no job
satisfaction?
2 perspectives, from employee's views and employer's views
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?
Attitude
Behaviour
Job satisfaction
Productivity
Behaviour
Job withdrawal/
Absenteeism/
Turnover
3. Organisational commitment
- The degree to which an employee identifies with a particular organisation and
its goals and wishes to maintain membership in the organisation
- There are 3 forms of organisational commitment:
- Affective commitment: employee strongly identifies with organisation and
desires to remain
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In summary:
Affective Commitment
Continuance Commitment
Normative Commitment
A
- any incompatibility or inconsistency between attitudes or between behaviour
and attitudes
- any form of inconsistency is uncomfortable and individuals will try to reduce the
dissonance
Intensity of the desire to reduce the dissonance is influenced by:
- The importance of the factors creating the dissonance
- The degree to which an individual believes that the factors
causing the dissonance are controllable
- Rewards available to compensate for the dissonate
PERSONALITY
Personality
2.
3.
4.
5.
Openness to Experience
Curious, imaginative, artistically, sensitive, broad-minded, and
intellectual
The big 5 personality test. (2008). The big 5 personality test. http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/,
accessed 22 March, 2015.
BREAK
T
S
N
F
I J
Social
interaction
Preference for
gathering data
Preference for
decision making
Style of
decision making
Preferences*
Extrovert (E)
Introvert (I)
Sensing (S)
Intuitive (N)
Feeling (F)
Thinking (T)
Perceptive (P)
Judgmental (J)
Personality
Occupations
PERCEPTION
2. PERCEPTION
Perception
A process by which individuals give meaning (reality) to their
environment by organising and interpreting their sensory impressions.
Since people behave according to their perceptions, managers need to
understand it.
Factors
That Can
Influence
Perception
The
perceiver
The
target
The
situation
Attribution Theory
2) Self-Serving Bias
Assumed
similarity
Halo effect
Selectivity
Stereotyping
LEARNING REVIEW
1. Attitudes
3 components of an attitude. 3 job-related attitudes
Link between job satisfaction and employee behaviour
2. Personality
The MBTI and the Big Five Model of personality
5 other personality traits that can explaining individual behaviour
Emotions and emotional intelligence
3. Perception
Perception and individual behaviour
Attribution theory, Fundamental attribution error, Self-serving bias
3 cognitive shortcuts
Reflection:
How does todays lecture fit into our learning of managing organisations
and people?
Which aspects of the lecture are likely to be examined in the final
exams?