Attitudes and Behaviour in Organisations

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Here at My Organisational Bahviour we want to try and provide as much up-to-date information on the subject of Organisational Behaviour as we can. However, there is nothing better than having a book to sit down in a quiet place and read. We recommend the following books.

Organizational Behaviour (Buchanan and Huczynski)

Management and Organisational Behaviour (Mullins)

What are Attitudes?

Mental states, developed through experience, which are always ready to exert an active influence on an individual’s response to any conditions or circumstances to which the person has been directed

Allport (1935)

Certain regularities of an individual’s feelings, thoughts and predispositions to act toward some aspect of his [sic] environment

Secord and Backman (1969)

ACB

There are said to be three components of an attitude, which can easily be remembered using ‘ACB’. These three components are;

Affective Component – feelings of an attitude.
Cognitive Component – Thoughts about an attitude.
Behavioural Component – Predispositions to act towards an attitude.

Attitudes in the Workplace

Attitudes come into the work-place under four different headings, these are;

Work situation – Attitude towards the actual job; pay, co-workers, working conditions, etc.
Personality – The way someone attitude is in the first place.
Values – What comes out of the work.
Social influences – What co-workers, managers etc. attitudes are like.

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