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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.
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
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
Change in behaviour