BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Glomb, Toner, Job Satisfaction
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Work centrality the extent work is perceived as a central life interest. Individualism/collectivism: individualistic societies stress independence, individual, initiative and privacy. Long term/ short term orientation: cultures with a long term orientation stress persistence, perseverance, thrift and close attention to status differences. Cultures with short term orientation stress personal steadiness and stability, face saving and social niceties. Three components to attitude: affect from very negative to very positive. Attitudes vary in strength and importance to the person: cognition knowledge or belief. Refers to a collection of attitudes that people have about their jobs: facet satisfaction the tendency for any employee to be more or less satisfied with various facets of the job such as work itself, compensation, career opportunities, recognition, benefits, working conditions, supervision, co workers, and organizational policy, overall satisfaction an overall or summary indicator of a person"s attitude toward his or her job that cuts across the various facets.
