Question

How do your attitudes inform your beliefs and behaviors relative to job, career, life choices?

Answer 1

How attitude informs one's beliefs and behaviors related to job, carrer and life choices. To understand this we have to understand the attitude first. Let's discuss some points about attitude:

Attitude are the positive or negative evaluations made about people, issues or objects. In an organization employees might hold attitudes toward their employer or co workers, toward workplace issues or regulations and toward the job itself.

We can include following points about attitude:

• Attitudes are based on cognitive, affective and behavioral information.
• Beliefs provide the cognitive basis of an attitude.
• A belief is a cognitive information that one has about an attitude object.
• A workplace attitude might be based on beliefs, or cognitions about one's job.
• The behavioral basis to an attitude refers to actions that are taken with regard to the attitude object, such as job related behaviors that reflects one's attitude toward work.
• Attitudes are the combination of these three components behavior, cognition and beliefs.
• Attitude may exhibit two features that attitude may be bipolar or bivariate.
• In bipolar feature of attitudes, people's attitudes can range from very negative to very positive.
• The more positive one's attitude is, the less negative it will be and vice versa.
• Bivariate feature of attitudes suggests that posipositivity and negativity are separable attitudinal substrats, rather than opposite ends of the same continuum, further, each can be separately activated and exert an independent influence on behaviors.

So, here in the above discussion we understood that attitude is the combination of behaviors, beliefs and cognition. How attitude inform about behaviors and beliefs, we have also discussed that. For example, a person with positive attitude, will have a positive belief and positive behavior toward his job and in life choices he will be positive like making positive friends, keeping positive attitude at tough times etc. This kind of person will also show positive attitude in job also and will be a good performer. This will be an opposite case with the person who has a negative attitude. This is a general example. A person may have two attitudes at one time for example a person with an emotional grueling job might have a negative attitude but at the same time hold positive cognitions by believing that the job is important and useful. A positive attitude informs positive behaviors and beliefs and negative attitude informs negative behaviors and beliefs in job, career and in general life also. A person's thought process tells a lot about the person's attitude towards job, career and life choices.

So, in this way we can say attitudes inform one's beliefs and behaviors relative to job, carrer and life choices.

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