Course ID: | MGMT 9840. 1.5 hours. |
Course Title: | Job Attitudes |
Course Description: | Reviews research on the job attitudes that tend to serve as
independent and mediating variables in organizational behavior
research. Such attitudes summarize how employees view their
organizations, their supervisors, and their jobs. The seminar
will also review methodological and theoretical issues relevant
to attitudinal constructs. |
Oasis Title: | JOB ATTITUDES |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | To enable the student to understand the major attitudinal
constructs in organizational behavior through in-depth
discussions of the literature.
To enable the student to assess the strengths and limitations
of existing work on attitudinal constructs in organizational
behavior.
To provide the student with the methodological and theoretical
skills to conduct primary research on attitudinal constructs in
organizational behavior. |
Topical Outline: | Specific topics covered include:
• Job satisfaction
• Organizational commitment
• Motivation
• Trust |
Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest
standards of honesty and integrity in every phase of their
academic careers. The penalties for academic dishonesty are
severe and ignorance is not an acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without
plagiarizing, cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving
assistance from any other person or using any source of
information that is not common knowledge. |