Chapter 4 Flashcards
- attitudes
- attitudes
- emotions
- emotions
- attitudes
Affective (organizational) commitment
The employee’s emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a particular organization.
Attitudes
The cluster of beliefs, assessed feelings, and behavioural intentions toward a person, object, or event (called an attitude object).
Cognitive Dissonance
A condition that occurs when we perceive an inconsistency between our beliefs, feelings, and behaviour.
Continuance Commitment
An employee’s calculative attachment to the organization, whereby an employee is motivated to stay only because leaving would be costly
Emotional Dissonance
The conflict between required and true emotions.
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
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.
Emotional Labour
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
Emotions
Physiological, behavioural, and psychological episodes experienced toward an object, person, or event that create a state of readiness.
Job Burnout
The process of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced personal accomplishment that results from prolonged exposure to stressors.
Job Satisfaction
A person’s evaluation of his or her job and work context
Organizational (Affective) Commitment
The employee’s emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a particular organization.
Psychological Harassment
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.
Service Profit Chain Model
A theory explaining how employees’ job satisfaction influences company profitability indirectly through service quality, customer loyalty, and related factors.
Sexual Harassment
Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that detrimentally affects the work environment or leads to adverse job-related consequences for its victims.