Attitudes In and Around Organizations / Edition 1

by Arthur P. Brief

Overview

How do the attitudes people bring with them to the workplace affect thoughts, feelings and actions in organizations? How are the attitudes of those outside an organization affected by the organization? This book provides a concise summary of what we know about attitudes and suggests what we might discover by adopting novel means, both conceptual and methodological, for studying attitudes in and around organizations.

The author overviews the job satisfaction literature, including a redefinition of job satisfaction. In addition, he examines: the various means by which attitudes have been measured; attitude formation and change; and the resistance of attitudes to change efforts. Groups whose attitudes are organizationally rele

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761900962
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/08/1998
Series:	Foundations for Organizational Science , #9
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Attitudes
Much Ado about Something
Job Satisfaction Reconsidered
The Social Psychology of Attitudes
A Little of This, A Little of That
Job Satisfaction Redux
Attitudinal Baggage
Negative Racial Attitudes as an Exemplar
Goodwill
An Attitudinal Perspective
The Study of Attitudes in the Organizational Sciences as History

Editorial Reviews

Reconsidering, but venturing beyond, job satisfaction in his study of the social psychology of attitudes in organizations, Brief (business and psychology, Tulane U.) demonstrates how attitudinal baggage bilaterally informs the changing workplace, its customers and other business contacts. Negative racial attitudes provide an exemplar of why this study of attitudes is "much ado about something." The reference list for business students, consultants, and organizational decision makers is an impressive 57 pages. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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