Chapter 4 Flashcards

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  1. attitudes
  2. attitudes
  3. emotions
  4. emotions
  5. attitudes
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Affective (organizational) commitment

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The employee’s emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a particular organization.

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Attitudes

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The cluster of beliefs, assessed feelings, and behavioural intentions toward a person, object, or event (called an attitude object).

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Cognitive Dissonance

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A condition that occurs when we perceive an inconsistency between our beliefs, feelings, and behaviour.

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Continuance Commitment

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An employee’s calculative attachment to the organization, whereby an employee is motivated to stay only because leaving would be costly

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Emotional Dissonance

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The conflict between required and true emotions.

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Emotional Intelligence (EI)

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A set of abilities to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in oneself and others.

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Emotional Labour

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The effort, planning, and control needed to express organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions. Higher in jobs requiring: Frequent/lengthy emotion display Variety of emotions display Intense emotions display

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Emotions

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Physiological, behavioural, and psychological episodes experienced toward an object, person, or event that create a state of readiness.

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Job Burnout

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The process of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced personal accomplishment that results from prolonged exposure to stressors.

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Job Satisfaction

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A person’s evaluation of his or her job and work context

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Organizational (Affective) Commitment

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The employee’s emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a particular organization.

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Psychological Harassment

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Repeated and hostile or unwanted conduct, verbal comments, actions, or gestures that affect an employee’s dignity or psychological or physical integrity and that result in a harmful work environment for the employee.

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Service Profit Chain Model

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A theory explaining how employees’ job satisfaction influences company profitability indirectly through service quality, customer loyalty, and related factors.

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Sexual Harassment

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Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that detrimentally affects the work environment or leads to adverse job-related consequences for its victims.

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Stress

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An adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to a person’s well-being.

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Stressors

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Any environmental conditions that place a physical or emotional demand on a person.

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Trust

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The positive expectations one person has toward another person or group in situations involving risk.

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Workaholic

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A person who is highly involved in work, feels compelled to work, and has a low enjoyment of work.

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  1. attitudes
  2. beliefs
  3. feelings
  4. behavioural intentions
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  1. relationship management
  2. social awareness
  3. self-management
  4. self-awareness
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  1. exit
  2. loyalty
  3. neglect
  4. voice
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Stage 1: alarm reaction
Stage 2: resistance
Stage 3: exhaustion

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  1. remove the stressor(s)
  2. withdraw from the stressor(s)
  3. change stress perceptions
  4. control stress consequences
  5. receive social support
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Three Stressors

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  1. Harassment and Incivility
  2. Work Overload
    • Working more hours, more intensely than one can cope
  3. Low Task Control
    • Due to lack control over how and when tasks are performed
    • Stress increases with responsibility
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Five ways to manage stress

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  1. Remove the stressor
    • Minimize/remove stressors
    • Work/life balance initiatives
  2. Withdraw from stressor
    • Vacation, rest breaks
  3. Change stress perceptions
    • Positive self-concept, humour
  4. Control stress consquences
    • Healthy lifestyle, fitness, wellness
  5. Receive stress support
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Traditional Model of Attributes

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Purely cognitive approach
•Beliefs: established perceptions of attitude object
•Feelings: calculation of good or bad based on beliefs about the attitude object
•Behavioural intentions: calculated motivation to act in response to the attitude object

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Job Satisfaction and Performance

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Happy workers:

  1. General attitude is a poor predictor of specific behaviours
  2. Job satisfaction effect on performance is lower when employees have less control over output
  3. Reverse explanation: Job performance affects satisfaction, but only when rewarded
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Service Profit Chain Model

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Types of Emotions

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Attitudes vs Emotions

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Consequences of Distress

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How Emotions influcence Attitutudes

How Emotions affect Behaviour

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How emotions influence attitudes:

  1. Feelings and beliefs are influenced by cumulative emotional episodes (not just evaluation of beliefs)
  2. We ‘listen in’ on our emotions

Emotions directly affect behaviour - ie. facial expression