MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Employee Engagement, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Other important attitudes: perceived support from an organization, engagement from employees. When people talk about attitudes of employees, they normally are referring to job satisfaction. Job satisfaction is a positive feeling about a job coming from a characteristic evaluation of the job. A high job satisfaction shared amongst an employee holds positive work feelings, while someone with low satisfaction has negative feelings. Job involvement is the degree to which people psychologically identify with their jobs and consider the importance of perceived levels of performance to personal self-worth. Those with high job involvement is strongly identified with and care about the type of work those individuals do. Psychological empowerment is an employee"s beliefs about how much they influence the environment of their work, their competencies, the job"s meaningfulness, and their autonomy. Meaningfulness empowerment beliefs strongly effect attitudes and strain. Those with strong organizational commitment identify with their organization and its goals and wants to remain a part of it.