LSUS MBA 701 EXAM 2 COMPREHENSIVE
COURSE REVIEW
◉ What two particular job attitudes have the greatest potential to
influence how we behave?
Answer: Job satisfaction and organizational behavior (high level of
overlap)
◉ What is job satisfaction?
Answer: Refers to the feelings people have towards their job
◉ What is organizational commitment?
Answer: The emotional attachment people have toward the
company they work for
◉ What is a more recently developed motivational concept that is
similar to work attitude?
Answer: Job engagement
◉ What is job engagement?
Answer: Refers to the investment of one's mental, emotional, and
physical energies into work
,◉ What does engagement reflect?
Answer: An employee's enthusiasm, involvement, and satisfaction
with their work, and it has implications for work behavior
◉ Attitudes are more strongly related to what, rather than actual
behaviors?
Answer: Intentions to behave in a certain way
◉ What will leaving your job depend on?
Answer: Availability of alternative jobs in the market, your
employability in a different company, and sacrifices you have to
make while changing jobs
◉ What is behavior strongly influenced by?
Answer: Situational constraints
◉ What causes a positive work attitude?
Answer: How they are treated, the relationships they form with
colleagues and managers, and the actual work they perform
◉ What affects what people value at any given time?
Answer: Economic circumstances and job market
, ◉ What factors show consistent relations with job satisfaction and
organizational commitment?
Answer: Personality, person-environment fit, job characteristics,
psychological contract, organizational justice, work relationships,
stress, and work-life balance
◉ What are positive core self-evaluations?
Answer: Individuals who have high generalized self-efficacy, high
self-esteem, internal locus of control, and low levels of neuroticism
◉ What type of people typically have more positive moods and are
happier at work?
Answer: Individuals with positive core self-evaluations and affective
disposition
◉ Even though all five of the big personality traits are correlated
with organizational commitment, which one has the strongest
relationship?
Answer: Agreeableness (either they are more successful at finding
job and companies that will make them happy and build better
relationships at work or they simply see their environment as more
positive
◉ What is positively related to job satisfaction and commitment?
COURSE REVIEW
◉ What two particular job attitudes have the greatest potential to
influence how we behave?
Answer: Job satisfaction and organizational behavior (high level of
overlap)
◉ What is job satisfaction?
Answer: Refers to the feelings people have towards their job
◉ What is organizational commitment?
Answer: The emotional attachment people have toward the
company they work for
◉ What is a more recently developed motivational concept that is
similar to work attitude?
Answer: Job engagement
◉ What is job engagement?
Answer: Refers to the investment of one's mental, emotional, and
physical energies into work
,◉ What does engagement reflect?
Answer: An employee's enthusiasm, involvement, and satisfaction
with their work, and it has implications for work behavior
◉ Attitudes are more strongly related to what, rather than actual
behaviors?
Answer: Intentions to behave in a certain way
◉ What will leaving your job depend on?
Answer: Availability of alternative jobs in the market, your
employability in a different company, and sacrifices you have to
make while changing jobs
◉ What is behavior strongly influenced by?
Answer: Situational constraints
◉ What causes a positive work attitude?
Answer: How they are treated, the relationships they form with
colleagues and managers, and the actual work they perform
◉ What affects what people value at any given time?
Answer: Economic circumstances and job market
, ◉ What factors show consistent relations with job satisfaction and
organizational commitment?
Answer: Personality, person-environment fit, job characteristics,
psychological contract, organizational justice, work relationships,
stress, and work-life balance
◉ What are positive core self-evaluations?
Answer: Individuals who have high generalized self-efficacy, high
self-esteem, internal locus of control, and low levels of neuroticism
◉ What type of people typically have more positive moods and are
happier at work?
Answer: Individuals with positive core self-evaluations and affective
disposition
◉ Even though all five of the big personality traits are correlated
with organizational commitment, which one has the strongest
relationship?
Answer: Agreeableness (either they are more successful at finding
job and companies that will make them happy and build better
relationships at work or they simply see their environment as more
positive
◉ What is positively related to job satisfaction and commitment?
